Roberto Scarone Rivera (16 July 1917 – 25 April 1994) was a Uruguayan

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player and manager. He is mainly known for his successful managing spell at the helm of the Uruguayan powerhouse Peñarol in the early 1960s.

Career

Scarone started playing professionally at his hometown club Peñarol in the 1930s. In 1939, at the age of 22, he moved to Gimnasia La Plata in Argentina where he spent four seasons. Between 1943 and 1947 he had spells with Mexican sides América and

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before coming back to Gimnasia in 1948. That same year he retired from active football and immediately took over as the club's coach. His then spent the following three decades coaching a number of South American clubs in Argentina, Colombia, Chile, Peru, and Mexico. His greatest successes came in the early 1960s with Peñarol with whom he won three consecutive Uruguayan championships in 1959, 1960 and 1961, two

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titles (in 1960 and 1961) and the 1961 Intercontinental Cup. On account of his success with Peñarol he was made a member of the Uruguay national football team coaching staff in the

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, along with Juan Carlos Corazzo, Juan López Fontana and Hugo Bagnulo. He also had considerable success coaching in Peru, winning four Peruvian championships with

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and Universitario de Deportes, and even took Universitario to the finals of the

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. In addition, he won the 1965–66 Mexican championship with

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. He also had a brief stint managing Peru national football team in the 1974 FIFA World Cup qualifying campaign. Scarone retired from coaching in 1982. After suffering from

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in his later years, Scarone died on 25 April 1994 in his hometown of Montevideo.

Honours

;National * 4 × Peruvian League:

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(with Centro Iqueño) and

1969 This year is notable for Apollo 11's first landing on the moon. Events January * January 4 – The Government of Spain hands over Ifni to Morocco. * January 5 **Ariana Afghan Airlines Flight 701 crashes into a house on its approach to ...

1971 * The year 1971 had three partial solar eclipses ( February 25, July 22 and August 20) and two total lunar eclipses (February 10, and August 6). The world population increased by 2.1% this year, the highest increase in history. Events Ja ...

and

1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...

(with Universitario) * 4 × Uruguayan League:

1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...

(with Peñarol) and

1966 Events January * January 1 – In a coup, Colonel Jean-Bédel Bokassa takes over as military ruler of the Central African Republic, ousting President David Dacko. * January 3 – 1966 Upper Voltan coup d'état: President Maurice Yaméogo i ...

(with Nacional) * 1 × Mexican League: 1965–66 (with América) ;International * 2 ×

(with Peñarol) * 1 × Intercontinental Cup:

(with Peñarol)

References

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