Alejandro Villanueva

Carlos Alejandro Villanueva Martinez ( born June 4, 1908 in Lima, † April 11, 1944 ) was a Peruvian football player, who participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1930.

Career

Club career

Alejandro Villanueva began his footballing career in 1927. Between 1927 and his retirement in late 1943, he played for Alianza Lima, one of the most important clubs in Peru. With Alianza won Alejandro Villanueva, who was born in 1908 in Peru's capital Lima, the Peruvian football championship five times. The first title win was achieved in Villanueva's first year at the club. 1927 you won the championship with one point ahead of Unión Buenos Aires, after three games were played. The following year, already more teams in the Primera División took part, namely this time 19 teams. Again, Alianza was able to secure the title in the final was the city rival and current football record champion of Peru, Universitario de Deportes, defeated 3-1. After two years without winning the title the next championship was celebrated in 1931, when they won the first place in front of Sporting Cristal in the table. In the two years that Alianza was able to repeat winning the title in 1931 and two more times secure the national championship.

National

In the Peruvian national soccer team Alejandro Villanueva came 1927-1937 to eleven missions in which six goals reach him. With the national team of his native country Villanueva participated in the first World Cup history, from Uruguay 1930, part. At the World Championships Villanueva came true in both games of the Peruvians used, but could not avoid, after Peru had lost against Uruguay, the eventual champions, with 0:1 and 1:3 against Romania with departures after the first round. In addition to the football World Cup Alejandro Villanueva also took part in some continental championships in America with the Peruvian selection. Twice it succeeded in winning the bronze medal at the Copa Américas in 1927 and 1935, each in their own country. At the end of his national team career, he also took part in the Summer Olympic Games in Berlin in 1936, in part, where Peru failed in the quarterfinals, despite that they won the game, because after Peruvian spectators stormed the field after the opening goal against Austria in the extension, put the opponent out of the Alpine republic against the result of a protest and the FIFA ordered a repetition of the Peru did not compete and therefore eliminated.

After the career

Alejandro Villanueva ended his footballing career in 1937. In the forties, he contracted tuberculosis and died on 11 April 1944 at the age of only 35 years from the effects of this disease. In 2000, the stadium his home club Alianza Lima, the Estadio Alianza Lima was renamed in line with Villanueva, who was also known for the bicycle kick in Peru during his career, he dominated almost perfect, in the Estadio Alejandro Villanueva.