Emilio Ãlvarez (footballer)
Emilio Walter Álvarez ( born February 10, 1939 in Montevideo, † April 22, 2010 ) was a Uruguayan football player.
Club career
The Cococho called Álvarez played throughout his career almost exclusively for Nacional, for which he was already active in 1954 and earned championship honors for youth times in all teams. In La Liga he made his debut in 1959 under coach Ondino Viera and wore the jersey Nacional's to 1970. With the study completed in this time 511 games for Nacional he is in this respect record holder. A hit could of used on both the interior and the left -back position Álvarez, who was in his early days yet on the left wing at home, in the Primera División not achieve this. It formed in 1960 together with Troche and Taibo or Sosa 's defense team from the Río de la Plata. With the Bolsos he won in 1963, 1966, 1969 and 1970 the Uruguayan championship. Moreover, he stood with his team in 1964 and 1967 in the final of the Copa Campeones de América or the Copa Libertadores. Mostly he worked there during his career as team captain. In 1971 he moved to Institución Atlética Sud América. Subsequently, he was still active until 1973 in Venezuela, where he eventually ended his career.
National
The defender was a member of the Uruguayan national football team, with whom he participated in the FIFA World Cup 1962, and the tournament in 1966. In total he completed for his country 18 matches in the period from 1 June 1960 to 1 July 1967 where he met one time into the opposing goal ..
Achievements
- 4x Uruguayan champion (1963, 1966, 1969, 1970)
Others
Álvarez was honored with the name Mister Wembley, because in 1963 during a game in London's Wembley Stadium to mark the centenary of the English league as Uruguayan representative for the team "Rest of World " aground. After his career Álvarez also worked as a functionary of his former club Nacional.