Alcides Ghiggia
Uruguayan footballer (1926-2015) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Alcides Ghiggia (22 December 1926 – 16 July 2015) was a former Uruguayan-Italian football player. He has played for Uruguay national team and Italy national team.
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Full name | Alcides Edgardo Ghiggia Pereyra | |||||||||||||
Date of birth | (1926-12-22)22 December 1926 | |||||||||||||
Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | |||||||||||||
Date of death | 16 July 2015(2015-07-16) (aged 88) | |||||||||||||
Place of death | Montevideo, Uruguay | |||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | |||||||||||||
Position(s) | Winger | |||||||||||||
Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
1945–1948 | Sud América | |||||||||||||
1948–1953 | Peñarol | 169 | (26) | |||||||||||
1953–1961 | Roma | 201 | (19) | |||||||||||
1961–1962 | Milan | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
1962–1967 | Danubio | 128 | (12) | |||||||||||
Total | 502 | (57) | ||||||||||||
National team | ||||||||||||||
1950–1952 | Uruguay | 12 | (4) | |||||||||||
1957–1959 | Italy | 5 | (1) | |||||||||||
Teams managed | ||||||||||||||
1980 | Peñarol | |||||||||||||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only |
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Ghiggia died on 16 July 2015 at his home in Las Piedras, Uruguay from a heart attack at the age of 88.[1]