Roberto Eduardo Sosa

Roberto Eduardo Sosa
Roberto Eduardo Sosa (1960)
Personnel
birthday	June 14, 1935
place of birth	San Carlos ,  Uruguay
date of death	June 27, 2008
size	179 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
at least 1954	Nacional Montevideo
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1955-1968	Nacional Montevideo
1968	CF Universidad de Chile	14 (0)
1970	Deportes La Serena	33 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
at least 1954	Uruguay (Juniors)	at least 6 (0)
1959-1967	Uruguay	22 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Roberto Eduardo Sosa (born June 14, 1935 in San Carlos , † June 27, 2008 ) was a Uruguayan football player .

Player career

society

The 1.79 meter tall goalkeeper Sosa first played in Montevideo for Nacional . There he was already in the squad when he was a junior in 1954 and was also part of the squad in the first division seasons from 1955 to 1968. During this period he completed 382 games for the Bolsos and celebrated winning the national championship in 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963 and 1966. In 1964 he took part in the finals of the Copa Campeones de América , in which Nacional had to hand over the trophy to the Argentinian representative Independiente . Then he played in Chile . In 1968 he was there at Universidad de Chile and in 1970 for Deportes La Serena . 14 or 33 missions are carried out at these stations for Sosa.

National team

Sosa was a member of the Uruguayan junior national team, which took part in the 1954 South American Junior Championship in Venezuela and won the title. During the tournament he was used six times by coach Gerardo Spósito . He was also a member of the senior team of Uruguay , for which he completed 22 internationals between December 7, 1959 and July 1, 1967, in which he had to accept 35 goals. With the Celeste he took part in the 1962 and 1966 World Championships . At the first tournament he was a goalkeeper and was used in all three games . In England he only held the role of reservist. He also won the title with Uruguay at the second South American Championship in 1959 .

successes

• Junior South American Champion: 1954
• South American Champion: 1959
• 5 × Uruguayan champions: 1955, 1956, 1957, 1963, 1966

Individual evidence

1. ↑ nacional.uy: El último vuelo (June 27, 2008) , accessed on April 4, 2019
2. ↑ profile on www.playerhistory.com ( Memento of 20 May 2015, Internet Archive ), accessed on June 9, 2013
3. ↑ Sudamericanos sub-20: 50's y 60's (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed May 11, 2015
4. ↑ Statistics of the international appearances of the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on June 9, 2013