Ãngel Romano
Ángel Romano 1914
Ángel Romano ( born August 2, 1893 in Montevideo, † August 22, 1972 in Uruguay ) was a Uruguayan football player. During his career from 1910 lasting until 1930 he won, mostly with Nacional Montevideo, nine times the national championship. With the national team, he won Olympic gold and six times the South American Football Championship. With eight participations in this competition, he holds the record. With 69 international matches, he was until 1985 most-capped player in his country.
Career
Ángel Romano began his career in 1910 at Nacional Montevideo, where he debuted September 11, 1910 against Central three goals and contributed to the victory. In 1911 he joined the Central Uruguay Railway Cricket Club, which should be known as Club Atlético Peñarol from 1913. Still in the first year with the yellow and black, he won his first national championship with these.
In 1913 he switched to the other side of the Rio de la Plata in the Argentine capital to the Boca Juniors and was at this time a few times placed in the Argentine national team for friendly matches. Romano, often considered nicknamed Loco ( "Crazy " ), but returned in 1915 returned to Uruguay and joined back to Nacional.
This time he should remain faithful to the club until his career end of 1930. Between 1915 and 1924, an era which describes the first heyday of Nacional, he won with the Bolsos eight times the champion title. It is reported that Romano scored in 388 games total of 164 goals in the Uruguayan championship.
1925 and 1926 took place in Uruguay due to disputes over the organization of football being no championships. Nacional took the opportunity to an extended European tour. Romano traveled here from March to August 1925, his club nine different countries. In 38 games - including against the Spanish champions FC Barcelona, the Italian champions Genoa CFC, Sporting Lisbon, Rapid Vienna and Sparta Prague, but also numerous less important enemies - Nacional won 26 times and lost only five games with a goal difference 130:30. Ángel Romano is only listed once scorers. It is reported that a total of 700,000 people have visited the Nacional's games - in Vienna, the delegation was even received by President Michael Hainisch. Part at the same time and in the same countries was with the Brazilian CA Paulistano, with the star player Arthur Friedenreich, another South American top club in Europe travel. After the resumption of the championship in 1927 Nacional was only fourth. A new trip abroad led the team with Romano in the same year to North America, Mexico, Cuba and the Antilles.
Romano was first used on August 15, 1911 in the Uruguayan national team, and wore it with a goal to make it 2-0 victory for Uruguay against Argentina in Buenos Aires in his time annual comparison of the two countries at the Copa Lipton at. Until 1927, he took up a total of 69 times for the Celeste and was from 1923 to 1985, until it was surpassed by the goalkeeper Rodolfo Rodríguez, another player from Nacional, record player from Uruguay. Was short-lived as his time leading scorer of the Uruguayan national team. His 28 goals were surpassed in 1928 by Héctor Scarone, who also sprang from the ranks of Nacional. His 69th International Match (one game on September 28, 1924 canceled after 4 minutes and repeated on 2 October 1924 so it is not counted in some statistics) meant the same on April 14, 1927 which he received the Imre Schlosser and Max surpassed Abegglen held world record of 68 games and was able to hold up to 31 March 1940 before it was surpassed by the Swiss Severino Minelli. He is to date the only South American who could set a world record.
With Uruguay in 1916 he took part in the Erstaustragung of South American soccer championship and denied it on July 2 in Buenos Aires the first game of the tournament's history, the Uruguay 4-0 win against Chile. Until 1926 he took part in seven other South Championships, where while Uruguay won six titles, once second and twice third. However, it is noted that while Romano was in the squad at the title win in 1923, but did not play. Overall, Romano came on 23 Tournament inserts with 12 hits. 1917 and 1920 he was here with four and three hits top scorer, but had to share the honor in 1920 with his compatriot José Pérez, a Peñarol player.
Another highlight was the gold medal win with Uruguay in his time one World Cup equated Olympic Games of 1924 in Paris. After Uruguay ausschaltete team, coached by William Townley Dutch in the semifinals wore Romano in the final at Colombes in the outskirts of the capital 's lead to 3-0 victory against Switzerland in Uruguay, whose coaching team with Izidor furrier was another important football pioneer.
After his retirement from active football was Ángel " El Loco " Romano honorary member of Nacional and was also active in the club's management.
Title
National team:
- Olympic Gold Medal: 1924
- South American Championship: 1916, 1917, 1920, 1923 *, 1924, 1926
- South American Championship / scorer: 1917, 1920
Clubs:
- Cup of Uruguay: 1911, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924