Walter Taibo
Walter Taibo, full name Walter Taibo Martínez, ( born March 7, 1931 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan football player and coach.
Playing career
Association
Taibo, the son of Spanish immigrants in 1919 came to Uruguay José Taibo and Brigida Martínez came when the third- born of four brothers named Raul, Juan Carlos, Walter and Nelson to the world. He worked after school first in his father's bakery in Cerrito de la Victoria. In his youth he played for El Convenio before Bellavista joined at the age of 14 years. Taibos time at the Montevideanern lasted from 1945 until 1949. During his time at Bella Vista later Goalkeeper also completed nine competitive games as a midfielder. In 1949 he moved to the big city rivals and football giants Nacional. There he played in his move first in the Tercera. After goalkeeper Taibo there very soon in 1950 in a discharged at the Parque Central game was injured against Danubio to the lungs and suddenly blood spat in his first foreign trip to Porto Alegre, he had to sit around for three years and returned in 1953 for the last three games against River Plate Peñarol and Rampla Juniors on the back soccer field. Taibo won then with the trained ensemble of Ondino Viera the Uruguayan championship in 1955, 1956 and 1957. 1958 won his team also in the Copa Teresa Herrera. In 1959 he took part in a National tour of Europe, with which one out of ten, only two lost against Barcelona and Dynamo Moscow. Against Barcelona, he played despite a knee injury, having supplied a very poor performance from what his hopes for an agreement with the previously interested Catalans nullified. In his time with the Bolsos he spent five years as team captain. 1959 and 1960 he then stood in ranks of Argentine club Club Atlético Huracán and completed 41 games. 1961, according to other sources in 1962, he joined it the Montevideo Wanderers and remained there until he moved in 1966. Earlier in his time there, he broke his finger and had to once again take a five -month break. During his club affiliation, he was second-division champion with the Wanderers. Although there are also sources that re- situate him in that period at the Bolsos, but are contrary to Taibos own statements. Taibo was in the years 1966 and 1967 the squad Peñarols in La Liga on. This was the extent unusual because for years he acted previously as captain of the arch-rivals Nacional. With the supervised Roque Máspoli as coach Aurinegros he won the 1966 Copa Libertadores and the Intercontinental Cup. In the following year it triumphed in the Uruguayan championship. He then played for Sud América. 1969 was followed by a commitment to the club Mar de Fondo, with which he was master of C and rose to the B. The following year he was even briefly to Progreso. His career ended then in Carmelo Nacional, where he was active until 1975.
National
Taibo was also a member of the senior national team of Uruguay, where he graduated in 1966 30 matches between 23 March 1955 to 26 June. He suffered 46 goals. Taibo, who made his debut under coach Juan Carlos Corazzo, Uruguay took part in both the South American Championships in Peru in 1957 and 1959 in Argentina, and at the 1966 World Cup, acted as goalkeeper Ladislao Mazurkiewicz in the. Although he came in the tournament in England did not use, but he had been involved as part of the starting lineup in the matches against Bolivia and Peru in the World Cup qualifiers.
Achievements
- World Cup: 1966.
- Copa Libertadores: 1966.
- 4x Uruguayan champion: 1955, 1956, 1957, 1967.
- Trofeo Teresa Herrera: 1958.
A trainer
During and after his active career, he worked as manager of the clubs Bella Vista, Montevideo Wanderers, Sud América River Plate, Cerro and Colón. So he in 1962 was a nearly two-month stint in this role at Bella Vista. Also in 1965, he jumped at the Wanderers in this function. In 1968 he did selbiges at Sud América as a successor to the exchanged at Danubio Milan. In 1975 he took over the team River Plate. A year later the Club Atlético Cerro resorted to Taibos services.