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| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Fernando Morena Belora | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1952-02-02)2 February 1952 (age 73) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Punta Gorda, Montevideo, Uruguay | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Striker | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1968 | Racing Montevideo | |||||||||||||
| 1969–1972 | River Plate Montevideo | 48 | (27) | |||||||||||
| 1973–1979 | Peñarol | 140 | (162) | |||||||||||
| 1979–1980 | Rayo Vallecano | 34 | (21) | |||||||||||
| 1980–1981 | Valencia | 31 | (16) | |||||||||||
| 1981–1983 | Peñarol | 50 | (39) | |||||||||||
| 1984 | Boca Juniors | 7 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 1984 | Peñarol | 6 | (2) | |||||||||||
| Total | 316 | (268) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1971–1983 | Uruguay | 53 | (22) | |||||||||||
| Managerial career | ||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Peñarol | |||||||||||||
| 1989 | Huracán Buceo | |||||||||||||
| 1991 | Real Murcia | |||||||||||||
| 1996–1998 | River Plate Montevideo | |||||||||||||
| 1999–2000 | Colo-Colo | |||||||||||||
| 2003 | River Plate Montevideo | |||||||||||||
| 2005 | Peñarol | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Fernando Morena Belora (born 2 February 1952) is a Uruguayan former professionalfootballer who played as astriker. His most known nicknames were "Nando"(abridged form of Fernando) and "Potrillo" (Colt, although young stallion is a better translation in this case), and he is the all-time top goal scorer in the history of theUruguayan Primera División with 230 goals in 244 games.[1] He scored 268 in his almost 20-year career.
Fernando Morena started as a professional football player in 1968 withRacing Club de Montevideo, which he left in 1969, signing for the nearby team,River Plate from Montevideo, where he played until 1972. Morena joinedPeñarol in 1973. In his first run with the club, he won fourUruguayan Primera championships.[2] He was the top scorer in the Uruguayan soccer league for six consecutive years between 1973 and 1978, and was the top scorer in theCopa Libertadores in 1974 and 1975.[3]
In 1979, Fernando Morena signed up with the Spanish teamRayo Vallecano, but spent just one season there before changing toValencia in 1980. Morena returned toPeñarol in 1981, where he helped the team win two more Uruguayan league titles in 1981 and 1982.[2] They also won theCopa de Oro in 1981, theCopa Libertadores in 1982,[4] and the1982 Intercontinental Cup.[5]
In 1983, Fernando Morena joined the Brazilian soccer teamFlamengo and in 1984, he played forBoca Juniors of Argentina. He finished his professional career in Peñarol in 1985.
Fernando made his debut for the Uruguay national team on 27 October 1971 againstChile in a 3–0 win, where he scored his first goal. He was part of the national team that represented Uruguay at the1974 World Cup. He went on to obtain a total of 54 international caps, scoring 22 goals which currently ranks him as the joint eighth-highest scorer in the history of the team. On 4 September 1983, Morena suffered a tibia and fibula fracture when playing againstVenezuela for the Copa America. He never played for the national team after that incident, though he is still officially considered a part of the Uruguayan team that won theCopa América in1983.
After retiring, he held several coaching positions in Uruguay, Spain and Chile. His first coaching job was inRiver Plate, which was followed by Peñarol,Real Murcia in Spain,Huracán Buceo,Rampla Juniors,Colo Colo in Chile and a second run in Peñarol in 2005. In 2009, he was designated as Manager of Institutional Relations at Peñarol.[6]
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| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Uruguay[7] | 1971 | 1 | 1 |
| 1972 | 5 | 0 | |
| 1973 | 8 | 5 | |
| 1974 | 10 | 7 | |
| 1975 | 5 | 3 | |
| 1976 | 10 | 0 | |
| 1977 | 6 | 2 | |
| 1978 | 3 | 1 | |
| 1979 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1980 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1981 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1982 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1983 | 5 | 3 | |
| Total | 53 | 22 | |
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