Pedro Petrone

Pedro Petrone

Pedro Petrone in 1928
Personal information
Full name	Pedro Petrone Schiavone
Date of birth	(1905-05-11)11 May 1905
Place of birth	Montevideo, Uruguay
Date of death	13 December 1964(1964-12-13) (aged 59)
Place of death	Montevideo, Uruguay
Height	1.73 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1920–0000	Solferino Montevideo
0000–1924	Charley FC
1924–1931	Nacional	128	(146)
1931–1933	Fiorentina	44	(37)
1933–1934	Nacional	20	(30)
International career
1923–1930	Uruguay	28	(24)
Medal record Men's football Representing  Uruguay Olympic Games 1924 Paris Team 1928 Amsterdam Team FIFA World Cup Winner 1930 Uruguay South American Championship Winner 1923 Uruguay Winner 1924 Uruguay Runner-up 1927 Peru 1929 Argentina
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pedro Petrone Schiavone (11 May 1905 – 13 December 1964) was a Uruguayan footballer who played in the role of striker. His nickname was Artillero, meaning artilleryman or gunner, in reference to his amazing goalscoring prowess.

Club career

Throughout his career, Petrone 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; he was the top goalscorer in Serie A during the 1931–32 season). Whilst in Italy, Petrone was timed in the hundred metres at 11 seconds and was said to be the fastest player in the League.

International career

A two-time gold medalist in the 1924 and 1928 Summer Olympics,^[1] 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 gold 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.

Death

Petrone died in Montevideo in 1964, at the age of 59 years.

Honours

Club

Nacional

• Primera División Uruguaya: 1924, 1933

International

Uruguay

• Olympic Gold Medal: 1924, 1928
• South American Championship: 1923, 1924; runner-up: 1927; third place: 1929
• FIFA World Cup: 1930

Individual

• South American Championship Top-scorer: 1923, 1924, 1927
• South American Championship Player of the tournament: 1924
• Olympic Football Tournament Top-scorer: 1924
• Serie A Top-scorer: 1931–32

References

External links

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