Walter Gassire

Walter Gassire ( born August 21, 1946 in Florida), also known by the nickname El Flaco (Spanish for The Thin ), is a former Uruguayan football player at the position of the goalkeeper.

Life

Gassire began in his childhood, first as a field player on the position of the striker before he decided on the post between the post. At 15, he left his hometown club and came to the junior level of the top clubs Peñarol.

His first professional contract he signed in 1963 at the Montevideo Wanderers, for whom he was working the next two years, before he was in the following six seasons at Club Atlético Defensor under contract.

In the early 1970s he moved to the Mexican Primera División for Deportivo Toluca FC, ​​with whom he won the championship title in the season 1974/75.

1980 Gassire a brain tumor was diagnosed, which was successfully removed. In the following three seasons, he stood for one season at Atletas campesinos, Atlético Español and last Tampico Madero under contract, where he end his active career in the 1982/83 season.

After ending his playing career Gassire remained in Mexico, where he married a Mexican woman and settled in his longtime adopted home of Toluca. In the immediate vicinity of the stadium of Toluca, he opened a sports shop.

Furthermore, he was occasionally under his former teammate Roberto Matosas and Héctor Hugo Eugui, with whom he 1974/75 won the championship title, as an assistant coach; first time in 1986 under Matosas in Toluca and between 2008 and 2011. Eugui under the CF Indios, the Puebla FC and most recently again in Toluca

Achievements

• Mexican champions: 1974/75