Héctor Scarone

Héctor Scarone
Personal information
Full name	Héctor Pedro Scarone Beretta
Date of birth	(1898-11-26)26 November 1898
Place of birth	Montevideo, Uruguay
Date of death	4 April 1967(1967-04-04) (aged 68)
Place of death	Montevideo, Uruguay
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	Inside right
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1917–1926	Nacional	115	(108)
1926–1927	Barcelona	18	(17)
1927–1931	Nacional	45	(39)
1931–1932	Inter	14	(7)
1932–1934	Palermo	54	(13)
1934–1939	Nacional	31	(16)
Total		277	(200)
National team
1917–1932	Uruguay	52	(31)
Teams managed
1947–1948	Millonarios
1951–1952	Real Madrid
	Nacional
Honours[show] Competitor for Uruguay Men's football Gold 1924 Paris Team Competition Gold 1928 Amsterdam Team Competition
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

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.

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.

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^[update] as the national record.

International goals

Uruguay's goal tally first

Honours

Club Nacional

• Primera División Uruguaya: (8) 1916, 1917, 1919,1920, 1922, 1923, 1924, 1934

Uruguay

• Copa América: (4) 1917, 1923, 1924, 1926
• Olympic gold: (2) 1924, 1928
• FIFA World Cup: 1930

Managerial career and later life

After retiring as a player, Scarone became a football coach. He was manager of Nacional and Real Madrid in the 1950s. He died in 1967 in Montevideo, aged 68.

References

External links

• International statistics at rsssf
• (Spanish) Profile at Futbol Factory^{[dead link]}