Julio César Britos

Julio César Britos Vázquez ( born May 18, 1926 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan football player. He was 1950 World Champion.

Career

Association

Julio César Britos began his footballing career in 1947 with the club CA Peñarol in Uruguay's capital, Montevideo, where he was born on May 18, 1926. With Peñarol Britos was three times Uruguayan soccer champions. In 1949 he finished with CA Peñarol, where he played, among other things, along with other Uruguayan football greats of the time as Obdulio Varela, Julio Abbadie, Ernesto Vidal and Juan Hohberg, the first place in La Liga with six points ahead of their city rivals Nacional Montevideo. After 1950 National champion, Britos won with Peñarol in 1951 his second national title as a first rank, two counters was achieved against Nacional. 1952 Peñarol finished with Nacional Montevideo the first place because it was tied. The playoff for the championship but won Nacional. 1953 Julio César Britos won his third championship in Uruguay. In the same year he was engaged by Real Madrid. However, in the White Ballet with world stars such as Alfredo Di Stéfano, Francisco Gento and Miguel Muñoz he was only sporadically used, in a year he managed just three league games in Spain, in which two goals get him.

National

In the Uruguayan national football team Julio César Britos was used twelve times in 1947-1952. In these twelve international matches he scored six goals. His debut in Celeste gave Britos on December 2, 1947 during a friendly match against the Colombian national football team. From Uruguay coach Juan López Fontana he was called to the squad for the World Cup 1950 in Brazil. In the tournament, he was not used. Meanwhile, his team won at the world tournament the World Cup title, after winning the decisive final round match against Brazil surprising 2-1. His last international match made ​​Britos on 16 April 1952.