Juan Alfredo Zibechi Rossi (30 October 1894 – 19 June 1958) was a

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who played for the Uruguay national team between 1915 and 1924. Zibechi was part of 6

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squads, and was involved in three triumphs in the competition (

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1924 Events January * January 12 – Gopinath Saha shoots Ernest Day, whom he has mistaken for Sir Charles Tegart, the police commissioner of Calcutta, and is arrested soon after. * January 20–January 30, 30 – Kuomintang in Ch ...

). He was also a member of the Uruguayan squad which won the gold medal in the 1924 Olympics. Zibechi started playing club football for

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and in 1919 or 1920 moved to

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References

External links

Alfredo Zibechi at databaseOlympics.com
1894 births 1958 deaths Uruguayan sportspeople of Italian descent Uruguayan men's footballers Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers for Uruguay Olympic gold medalists for Uruguay Uruguay men's international footballers Uruguayan Primera División players Montevideo Wanderers F.C. players Club Nacional de Football players Olympic medalists in football Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics Copa América–winning players Men's association football midfielders {{Uruguay-Olympic-medalist-stub