Omar Méndez (soccer player)

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Omar Méndez
Personnel
Surname Omar Pedro Méndez
birthday August 7, 1934
place of birth San Jose ,  Uruguay
position attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
Tito Borjas
1953 Central
1954-1958 Nacional Montevideo
1958-1959 Ferro Carril Oeste
1960 CA Independiente 1 0(?)
1963 South America ?? (16)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1953-1957 Uruguay 10 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Omar Méndez , full name Omar Pedro Méndez , (born August 7, 1934 in San José ) is a former Uruguayan football player .

society

The "el Bocha" called offensive player Méndez, who was initially active with Tito Borjas, played at least 1953 for Central , who were relegated from Uruguay's top division that year. The transfer fee for the transfer from Tito Borjas to Central was rumored to be 300 pesos. He was a member of the Nacional Montevideos squad in the Primera División from 1954 to early 1958 . In 1957 he won the Uruguayan championship with the Bolsos . He chose his next career station in Argentina at Ferro Carril Oeste . He was active there in 1958 and 1959. In 1958 he won the championship with the team in Primera B. In 1960 he was in the ranks of CA Independiente , but played only one game there. In 1963 he played for Sud América . With the club he rose to the Primera División that year, with Méndez being top scorer with 16 goals.

National team

Méndez was a member of the senior national team of Uruguay , for which he completed ten international matches between February 25, 1953 (2-0 victory over Bolivia) and March 20, 1957. He scored two international goals. He scored his first international goal on August 12, 1956 in an international friendly against Czechoslovakia. Méndez took part in the 1954 World Cup with Uruguay . There he came to his only tournament appearance in the course of the competition in the game for 3rd place . Méndez was also part of the Uruguayan squad at the 1953 South American Championship and its 1957 playoff in Peru .

successes

  • Uruguayan champion: 1957

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ profile on www.playerhistory.com ( Memento of 9 October 2013 Internet Archive ), accessed on June 29, 2013
  2. ↑ OMAR PEDRO MENDEZ, (el'Bocha ') el maragato mundialista (Spanish) of December 28, 2012, accessed on June 29, 2013
  3. ↑ Statistics of the international appearances of the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on June 29, 2013
  4. ↑ OMAR PEDRO MENDEZ, (el'Bocha ') el maragato mundialista (Spanish) of December 28, 2012, accessed on June 29, 2013
  5. ↑ South American Championship 1957 , accessed on 29 June 2013
  6. ↑ South American Championship 1953 , accessed on June 29, 2013
personal data
SURNAME Méndez, Omar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Méndez, Omar Pedro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH August 7, 1934
PLACE OF BIRTH San Jose , Uruguay