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 Stábile while playing forArgentina in1930 FIFA World Cup | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1905-01-17)17 January 1905 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 26 December 1966(1966-12-26) (aged 61) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Centre forward | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sportivo Metán | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1920–1923 | Huracán | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1924–1930 | Huracán | 119 | (102) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930–1935 | Genoa | 41 | (15) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1935–1936 | Napoli | 20 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1936–1939 | Red Star Paris | 19 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 199 | (119) | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1930 | Argentina | 4 | (8) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1931–1932 | Genoa (co-manager) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1937–1939 | Red Star Paris | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1939–1940 | San Lorenzo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1939–1958 | Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1940–1941 | Estudiantes LP | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1941–1949 | Huracán | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1949–1960 | Racing Club | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1960 | Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Guillermo Stábile (17 January 1905 – 26 December 1966) was an Argentine professionalfootball player and manager who played as acentre forward. At club level, Stábile won two national championships withHuracán and played in Italy and France. He was the top scorer of the1930 FIFA World Cup, the inaugural iteration of the tournament. As manager, he led Argentina to victory at sixSouth American Championships andRacing Club to three league titles.
Stábile was born inParque Patricios,Buenos Aires. He began his career with local club Sportivo Metán and from 1920, withHuracán. In 1924, he progressed to the first team which played in Argentina's top league, which then still had amateur status. He started out on theright wing but soon evolved into acentre forward. Stábile won many competitions with Huracán, most notably the championships of 1925 and 1928 and the regional trophyCopa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren in 1925.
After capturing the world's attention with his impressive feats in the First World Cup, he was signed byGenoa. He instantly became a fan favourite, scoring ahat-trick on his debut against rivalsBologna. He stayed with the Genoan club for five years, playing 41 games and scoring 16 goals.
During the 1935–36 season, he moved toNapoli withAntonio Vojak transferring the other way to Genoa. This was during the era whenAttila Sallustro another South American legend played for Napoli. The club finished 8th in the league with Stábile that played in twenty games.
As a last act of his playing career, Stábile moved toRed Star Paris in Paris, the club founded byJules Rimet, who took the initiative to the FIFA World Cup, first played in 1930. He stayed with the club until 1939 with the last honour of his playing career being helping the club achieve promotion, fromDivision 2 back intoDivision 1. He also served asplayer-manager for the club.
Stábile made his debut for theArgentina national team at the age of 25, in his team's second match in the first everFIFA World Cup held in 1930 in Uruguay. He did not play in Argentina's first match of the competition againstFrance.[1]
His debut came in the following game againstMexico, because the first choice strikerRoberto Cherro couldn't play due to an anxiety attack. The game finished 6–3 to Argentina, with Stábile scoring ahat-trick on his debut. This was long thought to be the firstWorld Cup hat-trick, until 76 years later on 10 November 2006 world football's governing bodyFIFA declared thatBert Patenaude had scored the first hat-trick two days prior to Stábile.[2]
The final game of the group stages saw Argentina facing South American rivalsChile. They won the game 3–1 with Stábile scoring twice, meaning that Argentina had qualified for thesemi-finals, against theUnited States. The South Americans breezed through, with a 6–1 victory; Stábile added two more goals to his account and securing Argentina a place in thefinals.
On 30 July 1930, the first ever World Cup final took place, between Argentina andUruguay. At half time Argentina led 2–1, Stábile having scored the second goal. However, they went on to lose 4–2.
Despite losing the final, Stábile made history, becoming the top scorer in the first everFIFA World Cup, with his tally of 8 goals in 4 games. It turned out that he would never play for Argentina again, and thus he scored in every game he played for his country, with an average of two goals per match.
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | Round | Report |
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| 1 | 19 July 1930 | Estadio Parque Central, Montevideo,Uruguay |  Mexico | 1–0 | 6–3 | 1930 FIFA World Cup | Group 1 | [1] |
| 2 | 3–1 | |||||||
| 3 | 6–3 | |||||||
| 4 | 22 July 1930 | Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay |  Chile | 1–0 | 3–1 | 1930 FIFA World Cup | Group 1 | [2] |
| 5 | 2–1 | |||||||
| 6 | 26 July 1930 | Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay |  United States | 3–0 | 6–1 | 1930 FIFA World Cup | Semi-final | [3] |
| 7 | 6–0 | |||||||
| 8 | 30 July 1930 | Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay |  Uruguay | 2–1 | 2–4 | 1930 FIFA World Cup | Final | [4] |
Stábile had received his first taste of managing, way back in the 1931–32 season at Genoa, long before he retired from playing. Here he spent the aforementioned season as a co-manager, alongside Luigi Burlando.
After a year at Red Star Paris, he becameplayer-manager for the club; this included the season in which they were promoted from Ligue 2. Stábile left the French club, to coach theArgentina national team. He began his spell in 1939.
Stábile coached Argentina to sixSouth American Championship trophies: in1941,1945,1946,1947,1955 and1957. After the first round exit at the1958 World Cup, where Argentina lost the last of its three matches with 1–6 toCzechoslovakia, his time with the national side came to a halt. He was called back to the helm of Argentina in 1960 and he led Argentina in the third and last edition of thePanamerican Football Championship, which took place in Costa Rica.
With the Argentina national side, as a coach (just as he had as a player) Stábile, set records; he coached the national team in 123 official matches gaining 83 victories, making him one of the few coaches with more than 100 international matches in charge.
While managing the national side, he also had spells coaching three other clubs, first the club where he began his career,Huracán and then laterFerro andRacing Club. He led Racing to three consecutive championships between 1949 and 1951.[3]
Stábile retired from management in 1960 to take up the role of director of the Argentina national school of football managing, a post he held, until his death in 1966.
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