Fernandez, Teodoro

Teodoro Fernandez was born on May 20, 1913 on the farm of Walkar, which was located in Cañete . He was born the last of 8 children in the family of Father Thomas Fernandez Cisneros and mother Raimunda Meyssan. In his youth, he was sent to go through primary education in the state school number 1510 of Walkara, in which he also began to play for the school team Huracan, which held their matches in the yard of the farm. At the age of 16, Fernandez was sent to Lima , where he was supposed to continue his studies, his brother Arturo , who was a footballer, was already there, playing for the Cyclist club.

Play career

Teodoro Fernandez T-shirt

Fernandez in the capital did not leave the hobby of football, he tried to watch in the club " Universitario ", at the show was attended by team president Placido Galinto, who immediately drew attention to the young man, who tried on the position of " defender ". In March 1930, Fernandez officially became a player of “Universitario” and made his debut for the first time in the team, although speaking for the back-up of the club in which young players played, but by the end of the year Fernandez, who showed himself brilliantly in the doubles tournament (he became the best scorer competition), was sent to the first team of the club.

On November 29, 1931, Teodoro Fernandez officially made his debut for Universitario in a match against the Chilean club Magalianes and scored in the very first game for the main team, bringing victory to his team. Fernandez spent his entire career for Universitario, although other clubs, including foreign ones, were eager to invite a player to their place, as the President of the Chilean Kolo-Colo club Arturo Krenovich gave Fernandez a check with an undelivered amount so that he would only sign a contract with his team, his name was in Argentina , in the club " Banfield ", but the Peruvian always answered with a polite refusal. Despite the fact that he did not shake play for the other club, he participated in foreign trips of other clubs, in particular, he played for the Alliance Lima club on her tour of Chile in 1934 , which consisted of two matches.

In the years of his game, Fernandez became the top scorer of Peru 7 times, having scored a total of 88 goals in 66 matches in these championships (a total of 157 goals in 180 championship matches), that number was due to the fact that in those years the Peruvian championship consisted of only 10 clubs that played each other only once. Most of Fernandez's goals scored in a friendly match, which was held in huge numbers by all Peruvian teams, for example, he scored 5 goals to one of the leaders of the Argentine football of the 1930-1940s “ Racing ”, in a match that he had after a long break caused by injury meniscus.

Pacific Team

In 1934, the best players of Peru and Chile made up the national team of players who played in these countries, they named their team Pacific Combination ( Spanish: Combinado del Pacífico ), this team went on a European tour in March and played there until August 1935 England , Germany , France and Spain , the Peruvian and Spaniards national team held 39 matches and Fernandez scored 48 goals in them, becoming the team's top scorer on this tour.

International Career

His career in the Peru national team Fernandez began on January 13, 1935 in the championship match of South America against the Uruguay team . A year later, as part of the team at the 1936 Olympiad in Berlin, he reached the semifinal stage of the tournament, in which Peru won Austria in extra time, but the Austrians filed a protest against the result of the meeting with FIFA , arguing that the audience prevented them from playing football, Peruvian players behaved the field was extremely cruel, and the football federation ordered to replay the match, and without the spectators, of course, the Olympic delegation was indignant and left the tournament.

In 1938, Peru and Fernandez won the Bolivarian games , and a year later at the South American Championship , and Fernandez became the top scorer of the tournament with 7 balls.

December 20, 1947 Fernandez spent his last match in the national team against the team of Ecuador in the South American championship , for 12 years in the national team of Peru, he spent 32 matches and scored 24 goals, which is still the second result in the history of the national team.

Goals for the national team

Retirement

Fernandez ended his career on August 30, 1953 at the age of 40, after spending a farewell match for Universitario against the Alliance Lima club, in which he scored 3 goals, and his team won 4: 2. And on October 14 of the same year, Fernandez spent another farewell match playing the first half for the Walcara national finance team, and in the second for 6 minutes entered the field in a University shirt, after which he handed over his shirt to player Manuel Arce , and all the players the game was played with applause.

Teodoro Fernandez died on September 17, 1996 at the Mason de Santi Clinic in Lima, aged 83 years. He was buried in the cemetery Memorial Park , which is located in the Lurin district. A few years later, the club held a farewell match in which Universitario players played in T-shirts, which depicted Fernandez.

Team

• Champion of Peru : 1934, 1939, 1941, 1945, 1946, 1949
• Bolivian Games Champion : 1938
• South American Champion : 1939
• Bronze medalist of the championship of South America : 1935

Personal

• Top scorer of the championship of Peru : 1932 (11 goals), 1933 (9 goals), 1934 (9 goals), 1939 (15 goals), 1940 (15 goals), 1942 (11 goals), 1945 (16 goals)
• The best player of the championship of South America : 1939
• Top scorer of the championship of South America : 1939 (7 goals)

• Article on peru.com
• Article on trincheranorte.com
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