Héctor Scarone

Héctor Pedro Scarone (* November 26, 1898 in Montevideo, † April 4, 1967 ) was a Uruguayan football player and coach. With Uruguay, he won the South American Championship 1917-1930 twice Olympic gold, World Championship and four times. With his local club Nacional, for which he was active 1917-1939, he won numerous national championships. In the meantime, he also played for FC Barcelona and Ambrosiana, today's Inter Milan and Palermo.

Career

Héctor Scarone, younger brother Carlos " Rasqueta " Scarones, which is described as an agile, quick and two-footed player, lay its advantages in dribbling and characterized by precision final strength was especially true as the free-kick and penalty specialist. Despite a relatively small body size and the head ball game was not one of his weaknesses. His creative style of play earned him the sobriquet El Mago ( in German: The Wizard ) a.

Scarone, was one of the greatest football players of his country, and was one of its active time to the world's best, often even as the world's best players. It is reported that Héctor Scarone made ​​his debut as a 17 -year-old in the first team of Nacional and with the club in the same year the national championship, formerly still an amateur competition won.

For most of his club career he played for just this club, in which he made his debut in the first team in 1917. In the years 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924 and 1934, he won with his club a total of eight times the national championship, 1917, the Copa de Honor and in 1919 and 1920 respectively, the Copa Río de la Plata.

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. Scarone 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. Scarone is it listed 29 times as a scorer. 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.

In the six games in Barcelona, ​​next to the FC were also the CE Europe and the Catalan selection opponents, he impressed, and FC Barcelona signed him then. In 1926 came Scarone in nine friendly matches of FC Barcelona used, in which he scored six goals. Games in official matches remained unfulfilled as he was not anttrittsberechtigt as foreigners. Overall, his time is at the Catalans as not particularly happy and there are reports that he should have been cut from his Manschftskollegen, as these would not be overshadowed by him.

Scarone returned to Nacional. After the resumption of the championship in 1927, the club finished fourth. A new trip abroad led Scarone with the team in the same year to North America, Mexico, Cuba and the Antilles. Here was Scarone goalscorer of Bolsos. In the South America travel to FC Barcelona in 1929 there was a reunion with many former teammates as Nacional in September the tourists 3-0 defeated.

In the 1931/32 season played for AS Ambrosiana Scarone, today's Inter. He made his debut at the Milanese in September 1931 with a 1-3 defeat at AS Casale and scored for the club where his first goal. until the end of the season and scored seven goals in 14 games this season. The seasons from 1932 to 1934, he spent the Sicilian club Palermo, where he scored 13 goals in 54 league games. At the beginning of the season 1934/35 he entered once for at Ambrosiana.

He then returned again to Nacional, the club for which he played a total of 369 games and scored 301 goals. He is active for the longest period for Nacional -been players. He is also with 163 league goals achieved the third best scorer in the top flight of Uruguay.

After his return from Europe, he joined the Montevideo Wanderers, where he was active as evidenced by the association website 1937-1938.

National

Scarone scored 1917-1930 31 goals for the Uruguayan national team, a record which was surpassed by Diego Forlán until 2011. The record of five goals in an international match, he set up the in the match against Bolivia on October 28, 1926 is, as before. However, the number of completed of Scarone during this period Internationals is disputed.

While the Uruguayan newspaper La República in a statistical overview of the most goals in the Celeste starts in the year 2011 of 51 appearances for Uruguay, the RSSSF leads in the time of September 2, 1917 to July 30, 1930 52 games in their statistics as a completed official matches. The on the website of his club Nacional ( of a club's library and archives Jesús Arrieta Fontana together with a staff carries ) given 70 missions in 52 goals for his country stir presumably from the inclusion of unofficial meetings in this list here.

With the national team him four times succeeded the victory in the Copa América in 1924 and 1928, he won with the team each the gold medal at the Olympics. In the decisive second final of the Olympic tournament in 1928 with a powerful shot from more than twenty feet away he scoring the decisive goal, which was celebrated by the sports press as the best goal of the tournament.

In 1930 he won with Uruguay by a 4-2 final win against Argentina at the Centenario Stadium in Montevideo, the first world championship in history. After he finished his career in the national team.

Coach

In the years 1946 to 1947, he was the coach in Colombia's capital Bogota in Millonarios.

In March 1952 he took over the post of coach at Real Madrid, at that time in tenth of the Spanish league. In the very first game he lost when the trained and final by Argentinian Helenio Herrera champion of Atlético Madrid 0:4. Real was ninth at the season end. His involvement in Madrid ended after the season 1951/52, in which he led Real to third place.

In 1954 he was jointly with Héctor Romero coach of Nacional.

In the early 1960s he was manager of Deportivo Quito in Ecuador. With the club in 1963 he won the regional "Inter Andean Championship " ( Campeonato Profesional interandino ), but the great success as a coach could he also fails here - Deportivo won the first national championship in 1964 after Scarones finish.

Achievements

Team title

• Olympic champion: 1924, 1928
• World Champion: 1930
• Copa América: 1917, 1923, 1924, 1926
• Master of Uruguay: (8 × ) in 1916, 1917, 1919, 1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1934

Scorer

• Copa América: 1927
• Top scorer of the national team of Uruguay: 31 goals

Awards

In 2002, he finished with an assessment made by the French sports newspaper L'Equipe list of the world's most successful footballer of all time rank 20, and all placed in front of him were active only after 1950.