Julio Pérez (footballer, born 1926)
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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Full name | Julio Gervasio Pérez Gutiérrez | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | 19 June 1926 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 22 September 2002 | (aged 76)|||||||||||||
Position(s) | Forward | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1944–1948 | Racing Montevideo | 100 | (50) | |||||||||||
1948–1950 | River Plate Montevideo | 30 | (20) | |||||||||||
1950–1957 | Nacional | 220 | (137) | |||||||||||
1957–1958 |
Internacional | 40 | (20) | |||||||||||
1958–1960 | Sud América | 49 | (29) | |||||||||||
1960–1963 | Rocha | 56 | (28) | |||||||||||
Total | 390 | (227) | ||||||||||||
International career | ||||||||||||||
1947–1956 | Uruguay | 22 | (9) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Julio Gervasio Pérez Gutiérrez (19 June 1926 – 22 September 2002) was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a forward.
Career
Pérez started his career at
Sport Club Internacional, then he returned to Uruguay to join Sud América and Rocha
.
He also earned 22 caps and scored 9 goals for the Uruguay national football team from 1947 to 1956. He was part of Uruguay's championship team at the 1950 FIFA World Cup,[a] and also participated in the 1954 FIFA World Cup.
Pérez died in 2002. His remains are buried at Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo.[2]
Notes
- ^ During the 1950 World Cup final match against Brazil, he famously wet himself during the national anthem.[1]
References
- ^ Bennett, Roger (30 May 2014). "Ghost of Barbosa haunts Brazil". ESPN.
- ^ May football keep him in glory (in Spanish)
External links
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