Emilio Recoba Explained

Emilio Recoba
Fullname:Emilio Recoba Cambón [1]
Birth Date:3 November 1904
Birth Place:Uruguay
Position:Defender
Youthclubs1:Charley
Years1:1925-1932
Clubs1:Nacional
Years2:1934
Clubs2:Nacional
Nationalyears1:1926–1929
Nationalteam1:Uruguay
Nationalcaps1:5
Nationalgoals1:0

Emilio Recoba Cambón (born 3 November 1904 in Montevideo — 12 September 1992) was a Uruguayan footballer. He was part of the team that won the first World Cup in 1930 for Uruguay, but did not play any matches in the tournament.[2]

He was a club player of Nacional. When Emilio Recoba died on 12 September 1992 he was the last surviving member of Uruguay's 1930 World Cup-winning squad. At 2010, Recoba was also the longest-lived player, having died aged 88, before he was overtaken by French midfielder Célestin Delmer, who died aged 89 in 1996, and Delmer's countryman, forward Lucien Laurent, who died aged 97 in February 2005 and Peruvian goalkeeper Juan Valdivieso, who died at the age of 96 in January 2007. In 2010, Argentinian forward Francisco Varallo died aged 100 years old.

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Notes and References

  1. Web site: Recoba, Emilio .
  2. Web site: Emilio Recoba - AUF. 15 December 2019.