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Adolfo Pedernera
Pedernera with the Argentina national team, c. 1945
Personal information
Full name
Adolfo Pedernera
Date of birth
15 November 1918
Place of birth
Avellaneda, Argentina
Date of death
12 May 1995(1995-05-12) (aged 76)
Place of death
Avellaneda, Argentina
Position(s)
Inside forward
Youth career
1932
Huracán
1933–1934
River Plate
Senior career*
Years
Team
Apps
(Gls)
1935–1946
River Plate
278
(131)
1947
Atlanta
28
(4)
1948–1949
Huracán
20
(2)
1949–1954
Millonarios
81
(33)
1954–1955
Huracán
10
(0)
Total
417
(170)
International career
1940–1946
Argentina
21
(7)
Managerial career
1951–1953
Millonarios (player-manager)
1954
Huracán (player-manager)
1955
Nacional
1955
Gimnasia y Esgrima LP
1955–1956
Huracán
1957
Independiente
1960–1961
América de Cali
1961–1962
Colombia
1962
Gimnasia y Esgrima LP
1963–1964
Boca Juniors
1966–1967
Boca Juniors
1968
Quilmes
1969
Independiente
1969
Argentina
1970
Huracán
1975
Talleres (Córdoba)
1976
Banfield
1977
América de Cali
1978
San Lorenzo
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (15 November 1918 – 12 May 1995)[1] was an Argentine football player and coach. Nicknamed "El Maestro" ("The Teacher"), he was widely considered to be one of the best world football players in the 1940s[2][3] and one of the greatest Argentine players of all time.[4] Pedernera was the natural conductor of both the famous River Plate team known as La Máquina ("The Machine"), with whom he won several Argentine and South American titles, and the Millonarios team called Ballet Azul ("Blue Ballet") that won the Small Club World Cup in 1953 among many others Colombian titles.
Pedernera's play with the Argentina national team, helped win the Copa América in 1941 and 1946, the latter tournament being named the Best Player.[5] He also was elected the 12th-best South American footballer of the 20th century in a poll by the IFFHS in 2000,[6] and his name appears in the list of the 100 greatest all time footballers selected from the magazine FourFourTwo in 2017, in which he holds the 58th place.[7]
Pedernera usually played as an inside forward and was renowned for his technique and ability to create chances for other players, whilst also being a prominent goalscorer.
^"Adolfo Pedernera". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
^FIFA.com
^"7 Greatest Footballers of the 1940's". 22 April 2018.
^Chiesa, Carlo F. (22 August 1999). "We are the champions - I 150 fuoriclasse che hanno fatto la storia del calcio" [The 150 champions that made football's history]. Calcio 2000 (in Italian). Action Group S.r.l. p. 128.
^"The Copa América Archive - Trivia".
^IFFHS' Century Elections - rsssf.org - by Karel Stokkermans, RSSSF, 2000.
^Yorkhin, Michael (25 July 2017). "FourFourTwo's 100 Greatest Footballers EVER: 60 to 51". FourFourtwo. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
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