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Full name | Héctor Pedro Scarone Beretta | ||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 26 November 1898 | ||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||||||||||||||
Date of death | 4 April 1967 | (aged 68)||||||||||||||
Place of death | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||||||||||||||
Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||
Playing position | Inside right | ||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||
1917–1926 | Nacional | 115 | (108) | ||||||||||||
1926–1927 | Barcelona | 18 | (17) | ||||||||||||
1927–1931 | Nacional | 45 | (39) | ||||||||||||
1931–1932 | Inter | 14 | (7) | ||||||||||||
1932–1934 | Palermo | 54 | (13) | ||||||||||||
1934–1939 | Nacional | 31 | (16) | ||||||||||||
Total | 277 | (200) | |||||||||||||
National team | |||||||||||||||
1917–1932 | Uruguay | 52 | (31) | ||||||||||||
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1947–1948 | Millonarios | ||||||||||||||
1951–1952 | Real Madrid | ||||||||||||||
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* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Héctor Pedro Scarone Beretta (26 November 1898 – 4 April 1967) was a Uruguayan football striker. He was from 1930 to 2011 the all-time leading scorer with 31 goals in 52 games between 1917 and 1930 for the Uruguayan national team.
At club level, Scarone spent most of his career with Nacional, with whom he won the Uruguayan championship eight times. He scored a total of 301 goals for the club in 369 appearances.
He also played for Spanish side FC Barcelona, and Inter Milan and Palermo in Italy.
He won the South American Championship four times: in 1917, 1923, 1924, and 1926, and the Olympic gold medal twice: in 1924 and 1928 recognized by FIFA as World Cup.
At the age of 19, he scored the goal that gave Uruguay the title at the 1917 South American Championship, in the final against Argentina, his fourth international match.
Scarone finished his international career by leading Uruguay to the 1930 FIFA World Cup, and although his international career ended that same year, the 31 goals in 52 matches (actually 52, but 21 goals were in unofficial matches) he scored for his country stood until as of 2011[update] as the national record.