Role Football player Height 1.75 m | Years Team Name Hector Scarone | |
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Full name Hector Pedro Scarone Beretta Date of birth (1898-11-26)26 November 1898 Date of death 4 April 1967(1967-04-04) (aged 68) Died April 4, 1967, Montevideo, Uruguay Similar People Carlo Ancelotti, Francisco Bru, Fabio Capello, Carlos Queiroz, Paul Clement | ||
Place of birth Montevideo, Uruguay Place of death Montevideo, Uruguay | ||
Héctor Scarone (1926)
Héctor Pedro Scarone Beretta (26 November 1898 – 4 April 1967) was a Uruguayan football striker. He was from 1930 to 2011 the all-time leading scorer with 31 goals in 52 games between 1917 and 1930 for the Uruguayan national team.
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- Hctor Scarone 1926
- Club career
- National team
- International goals
- Honours
- Managerial career and later life
- References
Club career
At club level, Scarone spent most of his career with Nacional, with whom he won the Uruguayan championship eight times. He scored a total of 301 goals for the club in 369 appearances.
He also played for Spanish side FC Barcelona, and Inter Milan and Palermo in Italy.
National team
He won the South American Championship four times: in 1917, 1923, 1924, and 1926, and the Olympic gold medal twice: in 1924 and 1928 recognized by FIFA as World Cup.
At the age of 19, he scored the goal that gave Uruguay the title at the 1917 South American Championship, in the final against Argentina, his fourth international match.
Scarone finished his international career by leading Uruguay to the 1930 FIFA World Cup, and although his international career ended that same year, the 31 goals in 52 matches (actually 52, but 21 goals were in unofficial matches) he scored for his country stood until as of 2011 as the national record.
International goals
Uruguay's goal tally first
Honours
Club Nacional
Uruguay
Managerial career and later life
After retiring as a player, Scarone became a football coach. He was the second manager of Millonarios since its origins, from 1947 to 1948, while the club was still an amateur team. He was manager of Nacional and Real Madrid in the 1950s. He died in 1967 in Montevideo, aged 68.