Roberto Scarone

Roberto Scarone
Personnel
Surname	Roberto Scarone Rivera
birthday	July 16, 1917
place of birth	Montevideo ,  Uruguay
date of death	April 25, 1994
Place of death	Montevideo, Uruguay
position	Defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1938-1940	Peñarol Montevideo
1939-1943	GELP
1943-1945	America
1945-1947	Atlante
1948	GELP
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1948-1951	GELP
1952-1953	Deportivo Cali
1953-1955	Centro Iqueño
1956	Audax Italiano
1957	Centro Iqueño
1958-1959	Alianza Lima
1959-1961	Peñarol Montevideo
1962	Uruguay
1963-1964	CF Monterrey
1965-1966	America
1966-1967	Nacional Montevideo
1968	CF Monterrey
1969-1974	Universitario de Deportes
1972-1973	Peru
1975	Danubio FC
1975	San Lorenzo
1982	Universitario de Deportes
1 Only league games are given.

Roberto Scarone (born July 16, 1917 in Montevideo , † April 25, 1994 ibid) was a Uruguayan football coach and player on the position of full-back . As a coach, he won national championships in Mexico, Peru and Uruguay. With CA Peñarol he won the first two editions of the Copa Libertadores in 1960 and 1961, and the 1961 World Cup. In 1962 he led the Uruguay national team through the World Cup. He was also the national coach of Peru.

Life

player

Scarone began his playing career in 1938 with his hometown club Peñarol Montevideo , where he was under contract until 1940. In 1938 the team won the Uruguayan championship under coach Athuel Velázquez . He then moved to the Argentine first division club Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata , where he stayed until 1943. He then played for two years each for the Mexican first division clubs América and Atlante . With the latter club he became Mexican champion in 1946/47 . In the game year 1948 ended his active career in ranks of his ex-club Gimnasia y Esgrima, where he first worked as a player- coach and then as head coach .

Trainer

In the following three decades he coached various clubs in Latin America and won a large number of national and international titles. He was four times Uruguayan, four Peruvian and one Mexican soccer champion. He also won the Copa Libertadores twice and the World Cup once with his hometown club Peñarol, which he coached from 1959 to 1961 . Scarone also coached the Uruguayan national team . On May 30, 1962, he played his first game as national coach, which ended with a 2-1 victory over Colombia's selection. This encounter took place as part of the 1962 World Cup , when Uruguay was looked after by the trio Scarone, Hugo Bagnulo and Juan López . At the Copa Lipton in mid-August 1962, Scarone had been replaced as national coach by Juan C. Taibo . Scarone was later also the coach of the Peruvian national team . In 1975 he was the coach of Danubio FC .

successes

National titles (as a player)

• Uruguayan champion: 1938 (with Peñarol)
• Mexican champion : 1946/47 (with atlante)

National titles (as coach)

• Uruguayan champions : 1959 , 1960 , 1961 (with Peñarol), 1966 (with Nacional)
• Peruvian champion : 1957 (with Iqueño), 1969, 1971, 1982 (with Universitario)
• Mexican champion : 1965/66 (with America)

International titles (as trainer)

• Copa Libertadores : 1960, 1961 (with Peñarol)
• World Cup : 1961 (with Peñarol)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Planteles Históricos (Spanish), accessed January 27, 2013
2. ↑ Juan Ramón Carrasco es el 44º técnico de la Selección (Spanish) on lr21.com.uy from June 12, 2003, accessed on November 6, 2016
3. ↑ Castelli es el DT n ° 56 de Danubio (Spanish) on danubio.org.uy, accessed on November 5, 2016