Carlos Peucelle

Carlos Desiderio Peucelle (* September 13, 1908; † 1 April 1990) was an Argentine football player and coach.

Peucelle is considered the founder of the football school of River Plate. As a player, he worked from 1931 to 1941 for River, winning four times the Argentine league titles (1932, 1936, 1937 and 1941 ) and scored 113 goals.

River bought him after the 1930 World Cup for more than ten million pesos. Together with other major purchases beginning of the 1930s, such as Bernabé Ferreyra, this costly transfer brought the club the nickname Los Millonarios (the millionaires ).

With the Football World Cup 1930 Carlos Peucelle scored in the final against the organizer Uruguay the hit to 1:1, the Argentine national team but was beaten 2:4 yet. 1929 and 1937, he won with the Albiceleste the Copa America. In total, he completed 29 games for the national team, scoring twelve goals.

As a coach, he worked in Argentina with River Plate and San Lorenzo de Almagro, in Colombia at Deportivo Cali, and in Paraguay with Olimpia Asunción. With Deportivo Saprissa he became a master in Costa Rica. End of the 1940s he founded the first soccer school in Colombia.