Pedro Petrone
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Pedro Petrone Schiavone | ||
Date of birth | May 11, 1905 | ||
Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||
Date of death | December 13, 1964 | (aged 59)||
Place of death | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||
Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in) | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1920- | Solferino Montevideo | ||
-1924 | Charley FC | ||
1924-1931 | Nacional | 128 | (146) |
1931-1933 | Fiorentina | 44 | (37) |
1933-1934 | Nacional | 20 | (30) |
International career | |||
1923-1930 | Uruguay | 29 | (24) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Pedro Petrone Schiavone (May 11, 1905 – December 13, 1964) was a Uruguayan footballer in the striker role. His nickname Artillero, meaning artilleryman or gunner in reference to his amazing goalscoring prowess.
In his career he played for Nacional, where he won two National Tournaments (1924, 1934) and in Italy with Fiorentina, where he played 44 games and scored 37 goals (Top goalscorer in Serie A 1931-32). Whilst in Italy, Petrone was timed in the hundred metres at 11 seconds and was said to be the fastest player in the League.
Two times golden medalist in the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics, Petrone also won the 1930 FIFA World Cup with Uruguay. He was 19 years and 1 month old when he received the 1924 gold medal and the tournament top-goalscorer award, still remaining to this day the youngest ever football golden medalist in the history of the Olympic Games.
Petrone won 29 official caps for Uruguay, scoring 24 goals, but early non-FIFA officiated matches would bring his record to 80 caps and 36 goals. He is currently seventh (7th) in the Uruguay top-goalscorers list.
He died in Montevideo at the age of 59 years.
Honours
Olympic medal record | ||
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Men's Football | ||
1924 Paris | Team competition | |
1928 Amsterdam | Team competition |
- 1923 Copa America - winner
- 1923 Copa America - Top Goalscorer
- 1924 Primera División Uruguaya - winner
- 1924 Olympics - Gold Medal
- 1924 Olympic Football Tournament Top Goalscorer
- 1924 Copa America - winner
- 1924 Copa America Tournament Top Goalscorer
- 1927 Copa America - runner-up
- 1927 Copa America Tournament Top Goalscorer
- 1928 Olympics - Gold Medal
- 1929 Copa America - third place
- 1930 FIFA World Cup - winner
- 1933 Primera División Uruguaya – winner
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- 1904 births
- 1930 FIFA World Cup players
- 1964 deaths
- Uruguayan footballers
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- Footballers at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Footballers at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- Olympic gold medalists for Uruguay
- Medalists at the 1924 Summer Olympics
- Medalists at the 1928 Summer Olympics
- FIFA World Cup-winning players
- Club Nacional de Football players
- Serie A players
- ACF Fiorentina players
- Uruguayan expatriate footballers
- Uruguayan people of Italian descent
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Sportspeople from Montevideo
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