Héctor Castro
Héctor Castro
Héctor Castro ( born November 29, 1904 in Montevideo, † September 15, 1960 ) was a Uruguayan football player and successful coach.
- 3.1 as a player
- 3.2 as coach
The player
In the club
The only 1.69 meters tall striker played for Centro Atlético Lito. He debuted in 1921 1924 he moved to Nacional and won right in the first year of its first national championship.; this club he remained faithful and then also later adopted the Bolsos part in both big European tour of 1925, and at the Central and North America overall competition tour 1927. He stood up straight into the first team, partly due to the the legendary Andrade page. Although qualified carpenter his right hand in an accident at the age of 13 years with an electric saw - not his arm, as is occasionally to read - had lost, he was a celebrated marksman, known as Il divino manco ( " The Divine One-Handed " ) and also a fighter guy who cheered his teammates constantly: it is the battle cry " Vamo'arriba, ya que los tenemos " ( in German " Come on, we have in the bag " ) attributed. Overall, Castro completed 231 appearances for the Bolsos. He scored 145 hits. From 1932 to 1933 he made also a stopover at the Argentine club Estudiantes de La Plata.
Castro ranked in the time list of scorers in La Liga with 107 in 181 Erstligabegegnungen ( period 1921-1936 ) scoring goals with Óscar Míguez par on the 7th Place. However Míguez needed only 137 games with significantly less inserts, so that it has the better Torquotienten.
In the National Team
Internationally, he first appeared in the 1926 Campeonato Sudamericano into the limelight, as the 21 -year-old with his " Urus " won the trophy and even six goals had helped making him the second top scorer of the competition. He scored four goals in a 6-1 victory over Paraguay alone. In this trophy, he also wore in 1927 (2nd place for Uruguay) and 1929 ( 3rd place) the blue and white jersey. In 1928 he won the gold medal with Uruguay at the Olympic Games.
At the first World Cup (1930 ) in his home country, he was also in the squad of the then world's best national team. In the opening game against Peru it was Héctor Castro, who in the 60th minute through the only goal of the encounter, also the first goal scored at the Estadio Centenario represented, freed from the pressure under which was the tournament favorite. Nervous about his teammates Nevertheless coach Alberto Suppici put him a surprisingly neither in the second group game against Romania still in the semi-final against Yugoslavia. Only in the final he could displace Juan Peregrino Anselmo from the team - and the confidence he justified again: his headed goal to make it 4-2 final score just before the end of the fiercely contested match against Argentina, the final decision and his team brought the first ever title of World Cup history.
At the end of his playing career he succeeded in 1935 once again winning the Campeonato Sudamericano, including Castro, in turn, contributed two hits. A year later, he finished with 31 years of his active career.
Overall, Castro graduated from his debut on 25 November 1923 until his last game for the Celeste on August 15, 1935 25 internationals. He scored 18 goals. Other sources of lead for him 20 goals in 25 internationals.
The coach
In 1939 he was at Nacional first assistant coach under the British William Reaside. From 1940 he had then held the head coach position, and in this role he managed with his club in the " eternal battle " against Peñarol Montevideo to win five league titles in series, the so-called Quinquenio. Here also the league title in 1939 fell into his responsibilities as head coach, as he sat on the bench when discharged only on April 28, 1940 final against Peñarol as head coach. 1951/52, he jumped in again for a laid-off colleagues and promptly won the Uruguayan championship again.
Héctor Castro died at the age of 55 years.
Palmarčs
As a player
- World Champion: 1930
- Olympic champion: 1928
- South American champions: 1926, 1935
- 25 A international matches, 18 goals
- Uruguayan soccer champions: 1924, 1933, 1934
- For Nacional Montevideo 231 games, 145 goals
As coach
- Uruguayan soccer champions: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1952
Source
- Folke Havekost / Volker Stahl, FIFA World Cup 1930 Uruguay AGON Kassel 2002 ISBN 3-89784-245-9