Ernesto Vidal
Ernesto José Vidal ( * November 15, 1921 in Buje, † June 13, 1974 in Córdoba) was an Italian- Uruguayan football player, who took part with the Uruguayan national football team at the FIFA World Cup 1950 and won the title there.
Career
Club career
The 1.68 meter tall Ernesto Vidal was born in 1921 in Buje, a town on the, now part of Croatia 's Istria peninsula. At that time, however, this piece of land belonged to Italy, whose citizenship Vidal also also possessed. He emigrated with his parents to South America. At the age of 20 he joined in Argentina first on the reserve team Rosario Central's. For the Argentines, he debuted in 1941, then in the first team. In 1942 he celebrated with the club the second division title. From 1944 he continued his footballing career at Peñarol, one of the greatest football clubs of the small country on the Rio de la Plata. There he stood up to and including 1953 in the squad. In Montevideo Vidal played along with other Uruguayan sizes of the time as Alcides Ghiggia Roque Máspoli and Obdulio Varela and won with the club a variety of titles in Uruguay. In all, he won five Uruguayan championships with Peñarol, which he celebrated in the years 1944, 1945, 1949, 1951 and 1953. Vidal then moved to Italy for Fiorentina, where he total of 29 games in Serie A played in the seasons 1953/54 and 1954/55, in which he scored six goals. His last employer was footballing Pro Patria Calcio, then playing in the Italian first division. There is a use for him is merely listed.
National
As Ernesto Vidal had next to the Italian and the Uruguayan citizenship, he was eligible to play for the national team of Uruguay. In the Celeste it brought Vidal between 2 July 1950 and 16 April 1952, eight missions in which two goals get him. In 1950 he was to have completed without an international match, called to the squad for the World Cup in Brazil from Uruguay coach Juan López Fontana. He arrived at the tournament in almost all games in the Uruguayan used. In the group match against Bolivia ( 8-0 ), he scored one of his two international goals for interim 3-0 in 18 minutes. In addition, he was in the final round games against Spain ( 2-2) and Sweden (3:2 ) was used, but did not score. Only the decisive final round match against Brazil he missed. In this game, the Uruguayan national team secured their second title after 1930, after being won over estimated 200,000 spectators at the Maracana stadium in Rio de Janeiro 2-1 to the hosts.
Achievements
- World Cup 1950
- 5x Uruguayan champion: 1944, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1953