Guillermo Escalada
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| Full name | Guillermo Escalada Píriz [1] | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 24 April 1936 | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Uruguay | |||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 21 June 2023 (aged 87) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | |||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1954–1963 | Nacional | 289 | (116) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1964–1966 | Gimnasia de La Plata | 26 | (3) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1966–1967 | Montevideo Wanderers | |||||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1955–1962 | Uruguay | 30 | (11) | |||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
Guillermo Escalada Píriz (24 April 1936 – 21 June 2023) was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a forward.[2] He was part of Uruguay’s squad for the 1962 FIFA World Cup, though he was an unused substitute.[3] He also played in 4 editions of the Copa America : 1955,[4] 1956,[5] 1959 (Argentina),[6] and 1959 (Ecuador),[7] winning two times the competition.
Career
[edit | edit source]Escalada began playing club football with Club Nacional de Football, where he would win league titles in 1956, 1957 and 1958. He also played for Gimnasia de La Plata and Montevideo Wanderers.[8]
Escalada scored eleven goals in 30 appearances for the Uruguay national team.[9]
Death
[edit | edit source]Escalada died on 21 June 2023, at the age of 87.[10]
Career statistics
[edit | edit source]| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uruguay[11] | 1955 | 1 | 0 |
| 1956 | 5 | 3 | |
| 1957 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1958 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1959 | 10 | 5 | |
| 1960 | 5 | 1 | |
| 1961 | 3 | 2 | |
| 1962 | 6 | 0 | |
| Total | 30 | 11 | |
References
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External links
[edit | edit source]- Guillermo Escalada – FIFA competition record (archived)Lua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 29: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
Categories:
- 1936 births
- 2023 deaths
- Uruguayan men's footballers
- Men's association football forwards
- Uruguay men's international footballers
- 1962 FIFA World Cup players
- Uruguayan Primera División players
- Club Nacional de Football players
- Montevideo Wanderers F.C. players
- Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata footballers
- Copa América–winning players
- Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
- 20th-century Uruguayan sportsmen
- Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers
- Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina