Porfirio Rolón
Porfirio Rolón (born May 4, 1918 in Asunción , Paraguay , † November 7, 2006 in Cali , Colombia ) was a Paraguayan football player.
The striker began his career in 1940 with Club Libertad in the Paraguayan capital Asunción. He won the national championships of 1943 and 1945 with the club. In 1944 and 1945 he was also top scorer in the league, Primera División de Paraguay, with 18 goals each .
With the national team he took part in the Campeonato Sudamericano in Buenos Aires in 1946 and reached third place there. At the tournament he played all of his three caps for Paraguay and scored one goal.
In 1951 he moved to Colombia to América de Cali , where he was one of the outstanding players in its brief heyday - the so-called El Dorado , when numerous stars from all over the world played for Colombian clubs. After the decline of El Dorado , he played from 1953 to 1954 with the Boca Juniors de Cali and 1955 with Centro Iqueño in Peru. In 1956 he returned to Cali and played there again until 1958 for America, where he was allowed to celebrate the runner-up last year.
As early as 1959 he acted for the first time as a trainer at America and carried out this function several times, mostly on an interim basis, until 1970. In 1969 he trained in the meantime Unión Magdalena .
After retiring from the football business, he settled permanently in Cali and owned several restaurants in the years that followed.
His brother Máximo Rolón began like him at Libertad and later also played for America.
Web links
- Murió Porfirio Rolón gran figura en la época de 'eldorado' , arcotriunfal.com, (accessed on May 11, 2011)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Rolón, Porfirio |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Paraguayan soccer player and coach |
| DATE OF BIRTH | around 1918 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Asunción , Paraguay |
| DATE OF DEATH | November 7, 2006 |
| Place of death | Cali , Colombia |