Fernando Ãlvez
Fernando Harry Álvez Mosquera ( born September 4, 1959 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan football player.
Playing career
Association
The goalkeeper played consistently at club level from 1976 to 1984 in the Uruguayan Primera División. After he stood from 1976 to 1977 with Defensor Sporting under contract, he moved from there for the next six years within the city to Peñarol. There he was able in 1982 to celebrate his greatest career success in club football by winning the Copa Libertadores and the World Cup, even if he did not occupy the position of first goalkeeper in the club at that time. He then went to Paraguay in 1984, where he said at the time coached by Sergio Markarian Club Libertad joined. In the following two years back for Peñarol on the ball, he graduated in 1987 five games for the Colombian club Independiente Santa Fe. He moved in the same year to the Brazilian club Botafogo. In 1988, a three- year-long return to Peñarol, after which he changed in 1991 with a move to Independiente Medellín. The Torneo Apertura and Torneo Clausura of 1992 which he spent in rows Deportivo Mandiyús. For the Argentinians it was at this time 35 times on the court. CA San Lorenzo de Almagro was his employer in both the Apertura 1995 and Clausura 1996. However, only one use for him in the first season phase is recorded. For the Apertura 1997 he again returned to Peñarol. There he won his fifth overall Uruguayan championship title after 1978, 1979, 1981 and 1982.
National
Álvez was a member of the Uruguayan national junior team that participated in 1977 at the U-20 South American Championship in Venezuela and won the title. In the same year, he finished with the team at the Junior World Cup in 1977 to fourth place. Two years later, he repeated the South American championship triumph with the Celeste at the U -20 South American Championship in 1979 and finished third at the Junior World Cup in 1979. He was also a member of the senior team in his home country. As a substitute goalkeeper Rodolfo Rodríguez behind he belonged to the winning squad of Mundialito. He participated in the World Cup in Mexico in 1986 and the World Cup 1990 tournament in Italy, in each case as the regular goalkeeper Celeste participate and completed all the games. He also won the Copa America with Uruguay in 1995 and was at the tournaments in 1989 and 1991 also in the squad. Overall, he completed between 18 July 1980 and June 8, 1997 40 internationals.
Achievements
- Winner of the Mundialito
- Winner of the Copa América 1995
- 2x U-20 South American champions (1977, 1979)
- Winner of the Copa Libertadores in 1982
- World Cup Winners 1982
- 5x Uruguayan champion with Peñarol (1978, 1979, 1981, 1982, 1997)
Coaching career
In 2011, he coached until the beginning of December the Rocha FC in Segunda División. In that year he made and off the actual sports events headlines when he was arrested at first sight participating in March during the basketball game Malvín against Biguá at Palacio Peñarol after a verbal altercation with a him and other spectators on the playing field officers. In November, he then gave up before the game against Club Atlético Atenas with Yonny Acosta, the assistant coach of Rocha, a physical confrontation.