Pedro Rocha

This article deals with the Uruguayan soccer player Pedro Rocha (1942–2013). For the Brazilian soccer player (* 1994) see Pedro Rocha Neves .

Pedro Rocha
Personnel
Surname	Pedro Virgilio Rocha Franchetti
birthday	December 3, 1942
place of birth	Salto ,  Uruguay
date of death	2nd December 2013
Place of death	São Paulo ,  Brazil
position	attack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1960-1970	Peñarol
1970-1977	Sao Paulo FC
1978	Coritiba FC
1979	Palmeiras São Paulo
1979	Bangu AC
1980	CF Monterrey
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1961-1974	Uruguay	52 (17)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1988/89	Sporting Lisbon
1990/91	Vitória Guimarães
1996	Internacional Porto Alegre
1997	Kyoto Sanga
1 Only league games are given.

Pedro Virgilio Rocha Franchetti (born December 3, 1942 in Salto , † December 2, 2013 in São Paulo , Brazil ) was a Uruguayan football player and coach .

Career as a player

society

At the club level, Pedro Rocha played for Peñarol Montevideo and São Paulo FC for most of his career . With Peñarol Montevideo, where he was in the squad of the team playing in the Primera División at least from 1960 to 1970 , he won seven Uruguayan championship titles (1960, 1961, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968), three times the Copa Libertadores ( 1960, 1961 and 1966) and the World Cup (1961, 1966). In 1963 (18 goals), 1965 (15 goals) and 1968 (8 goals) he was Uruguayan top scorer . In total, he scored 81 goals in 159 games for Peñarol.

In 1970 he moved to São Paulo FC, where he won the São Paulo State Championship with the team in 1971 and 1975 . In 1972 he became the top scorer . To date, he is the only non- Brazilian who managed to do this in Series A (as of the end of the 2017 season). In 1977, his final year with the club, his club became Brazilian champions for the first time in its history. In 375 games he scored 113 times for the Tricolores .

He also played in Brazil for Coritiba FC , with whom he won the Paraná national championship, Palmeiras São Paulo and Bangu AC in Rio de Janeiro . His last club was CF Monterrey in Mexico in 1980.

National team

Rocha played from his debut on October 12, 1961 in the game against the Chilean selection to his last use on June 23, 1974 at the World Cup against Sweden 52 games for the Uruguayan national football team and scored 17 goals. He took part in the four world championships from 1962 to 1974. At the soccer world championship in 1962 he came to two missions, at the 1966 tournament he ran four times. There was one World Cup appearance at the 1970 , and there were three at the finals four years later in Germany. Rocha also participated in the Copa America 1967 , from which Uruguay emerged victorious, in the Copa Pinto Duran in 1963 and 1965, the Copa Artigas in 1965 and 1968, the Copa Rio Branco in 1967, the Copa Lipton in 1968 and the Copa Newton in 1968 .

successes

Peñarol

• 7 × Uruguayan champions : 1960 , 1961 , 1962 , 1964 , 1965 , 1967 , 1968
• 3 × Copa Libertadores : 1960 , 1961 , 1966
• 2 × World Cup : 1961 , 1966

São Paulo

• 2 × State Championship of São Paulo : 1971, 1975
• Brazilian champion : 1977

Coritiba

• Paraná State Championship : 1980

National team

• Copa America : 1967

Awards

• 4 × top scorer: 1963, 1965, 1968 (both Uruguay), 1972 (Brazil)

Career as a coach

In 1988/89 Rocha worked as a coach at Sporting Lisbon . This was followed by coaching stations at Guimarães (1990/91) and Internacional in 1996. In 1997 he coached the Japanese club Kyōto Sanga .

Report of his death

For several years Rocha suffered from a midbrain - atrophy . On November 16, 2013, the Uruguayan Football Association reported that Rocha had died and ordered a minute's silence. Ms. Rochas contradicted this report. He finally died just under two and a half weeks later, one day before his 71st birthday.

Web links

• Profile at Futbol Factory (Spanish)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Uruguay: Football legend Pedro Rocha dies , accessed on December 3, 2013
2. ↑ Planteles Históricos (Spanish), accessed June 25, 2013
3. ↑ Goleadores Torneo Uruguayo ( Memento of August 24, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) on www.observa.com.uy of August 14, 2010, accessed on December 24, 2011
4. ↑ Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team at www.rsssf.com , accessed on December 16, 2012
5. ^ Pedro Virgilio Rocha - International Appearances at www.rsssf.com, accessed December 29, 2012
6. ↑ Morreu Pedro Rocha, antigo jogador uruguaio e ex-técnico do Sporting ( Memento of March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) (Portuguese) of December 3, 2013, accessed on July 17, 2014
7. ↑ Desmienten fallecimiento de Rocha ( Memento from December 6, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) in El Observador from November 16, 2013, accessed on November 16, 2013
8. ↑ Confuso (Spanish) on www.montevideo.com.uy of November 16, 2013, accessed on November 16, 2013