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| Full name | Wílliam Ruben Martínez Carreras | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1928-01-13)January 13, 1928 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Pueblo Victoria, Uruguay | |||||||||||||
| Date of death | December 28, 1997(1997-12-28) (aged 69) | |||||||||||||
| Position | Defender | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| –1942 | Sportivo Alba | |||||||||||||
| 1942–1943 | Nacional | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 1943–1946 | Nacional | |||||||||||||
| 1947–1948 | Racing Montevideo | |||||||||||||
| 1948–1954 | Rampla Juniors | |||||||||||||
| 1955–1962 | Peñarol | |||||||||||||
| 1963–1967 | Rampla Juniors | |||||||||||||
| 1967–1968 | Atlético Junior | |||||||||||||
| 1968–1969 | Rampla Juniors | |||||||||||||
| 1969–1970 | Fenix | |||||||||||||
| 1970 | Central Español | |||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 1950–1965 | Uruguay | 54 | (2) | |||||||||||
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Wílliam Ruben Martínez Carreras[1] (January 13, 1928 – December 28, 1997) was a Uruguayanfootballer who played as adefender. He played 54 times for theUruguay national football team between 1950 and 1965.[2]
Martínez came through the youth team of local side Sportivo Alba de Victoria and signed on as a youth player forNacional in 1962. After playing for Nacional at various youth levels and for the first team he joinedRacing Club de Montevideo in 1947.
In 1948, he joinedRampla Juniors, where he spent 7 seasons before joiningPeñarol
It was with Peñarol that Martínez enjoyed most of his success at the club level. During his time with the club he captained the team to five consecutive league titles (1958–1962), twoCopa Libertadores (1960, 1961), theCopa Intercontinental in 1961 and four consecutive editions of the Copa Uruguay (1958–1961).
In 1963 Martínez returned toRampla Juniors, in 1967 he joinedAtlético Junior in Colombia before returning for a third spell with Rampla Juniors.
In the last years of his playing career he worked as theplayer-manager ofFenix andCentral Español. He retired from football in 1970 at the age of 42.
Martínez was in theUruguay squads for three FIFA World Cup tournaments (1950,1954 and1962). He played a total of 54 matches scoring 2 goals.
Martínez won theCopa América with Uruguay in1956,[3] he also played in three other editions of the tournament (1953,[4]1955[1] and1959A[5]).
Nacional
Rampla Juniors
C.A. Peñarol
Uruguay
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