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Álvaro Gestido
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Uruguayan footballer (1907-1957)
Key facts
- Full name
- Álvaro Antonio Gestido Pose
- Date of birth
- ( 1907-05-17 ) 17 May 1907
- Place of birth
- Uruguay
- Date of death
- 18 January 1957 (1957-01-18) (aged 49)
- Position
- Midfielder
- Years
- Team
- 1926 1940
- Peñarol
- 1927 1940
- Uruguay
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Álvaro
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Uruguay
- Place of birth
- Montevideo
- Place of death
- Santa Clara de Olimar
- Sibling
- Óscar Diego Gestido
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 1928 Summer Olympics
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Uruguay men's national football team
- Position played
- defender
- Country for sport
- Uruguay
- Mass
- 73
- Image
- Álvaro Gestido (1928).jpg
- Height
- 1.76
Show 5 more facts
- date of birth
- 1907-05-17
- date of death
- 1957-01-18
- Commons category
- Álvaro Gestido
- end of work period
- 1942-00-00
- nickname
- El Caballero de Deporte
Sources (3)
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Álvaro Antonio Gestido Pose (17 May 1907 — 18 January 1957) was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a midfielder for Uruguay national team. He played for Peñarol in club football from 1926 to 1940. He has played 26 matches for the national team, winning the 1930 FIFA World Cup and the 1928 Summer Olympics. His brother Óscar Diego Gestido was President of Uruguay in 1967.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Álvaro Gestido” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.