Federico Vairo

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Federico Vairo Moramarco Angellastre
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Vairo during his run on River Plate
Personal information
Date of birth (1930-01-27)January 27, 1930
Place of birth Rosario, Argentina
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Place of death Buenos Aires, Argentina
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1950–1954 Rosario Central 100 (?)
1955–1959 River Plate 97 (3)
1960–1966 O'Higgins ? (?)
1967 Deportivo Cali ? (?)
International career
1955–1958 Argentina 41 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of June 2007

Federico Vairo Moramarco Angellastre (January 27, 1930 – December 7, 2010) was an Argentine football defender who won three consecutive league titles with River Plate and represented Argentina at the 1958 World Cup.[1]

His younger brother Juan Apolonio Vairo Moramarco also played football professionally, including one season for Juventus F.C..

Early life

Federico Vairo was born in Rosario, Argentina.

Club career

Vairo started his career at Rosario Central in his home city in 1947, he played for the club for 8 seasons before moving to Buenos Aires to play for River Plate. River won three consecutive league titles between 1955 and 1957.

Vairo played for the Argentine National team at the World Cup held in Sweden in 1958. At onetime he was the player with the most games played for the national team. His record was not broken until the 1990s.

In 1960 Vairo joined Chilean O'Higgins. His first three seasons with the club resulted in mid-table finishes, but the 1963 campaign saw the club relegated, finishing 18th and last in the table.

1964 saw O'Higgins successful return to the Primera División de Chile by winning the Chilean Second Division title, the only title in the club's history. In 1965 Vairo dedicated his life in the little leagues as coach with Club Atlético River Plate, where he was in charge of training and turning amateurs to professionals which later played first division football.

1999–2010, Club Atlético River Plate hired him to scout junior players from the Santa Fe Province.

In 2005, he was given an award at the 50th Anniversary party of O'Higgins.[2]

Season Club Title
1955 Argentina River Plate Primera Division Argentina
1956 Argentina River Plate Primera Division Argentina
1957 Argentina River Plate Primera Division Argentina
1964 Chile O'Higgins Chilean Second Division
1967 Colombia Deportivo Cali Copa Mustang

International career

Between 1955 and 1958 Vairo played 41 games for the Argentina national football team, he helped Argentina to win the 1957 Copa America championship and represented Argentina at the 1958 World Cup.

Season Club Title
1957 Argentina Argentina Copa America

Death

On December 7, 2010, Federico Vairo died in a hospital in Buenos Aires, Argentina, in a battle against stomach cancer. He is survived by his brother Juan Vairo, his wife Marta, and his three children, Graciela, Daniel, and Claudia.[3][4][5][6][7][8]

References

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External links

  • Federico Vairo at National-Football-Teams.comLua error in Module:WikidataCheck at line 28: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).
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