Ramón Alberto Villaverde

Ramón Alberto Villaverde Vázquez ( born March 16, 1930 in Montevideo, † September 15, 1986 in Barcelona ) was a Uruguayan football player.

Career

Villaverde began in 1949 his professional career in his native Uruguay to Liverpool Montevideo. After one year, the striker moved to Cucuta Deportivo. In 1951 he went to Los Millonarios CD, where he played in a team with Alfredo Di Stéfano and 1952, and 1953 Colombian champion. From 1954 played Villaverde for the first time for a European club, FC Barcelona. For Barcelona, ​​he made ​​his debut on September 12, 1954 in a 4-2 victory over Sevilla FC, where he scored the first goal. In his eleven years of station at Barça, he won the Spanish Cup twice each, the Fairs Cup and three Spanish Cups. In total he scored for Barcelona in 162 league games 53 goals. Two of his greatest games made ​​Villaverde undoubtedly in the quarter- final of the European Champions' Cup 1959/60 where it meets the English champions Wolverhampton Wanderers out of the tournament threw with his team. Villaverde scored twice in a 4-0 home win in the first leg and once in the return match in a 5-2 win at Wolves. His career ended with Racing Santander.

Achievements

• Colombian Championship: 1952, 1953
• Colombian Cup: 1953
• Spanish Cup: 1959, 1960
• Spanish Cup: 1957, 1959, 1963
• Fairs Cup: 1955-1958, 1958-1960