Abdón Porte

Abdón Porte
Personal information
Full name Abdón Porte
Date of birth 1880
Place of birth Montevideo, Uruguay
Date of death 5 March 1918(1918-03-05)
Place of death Montevideo, Uruguay
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1910 Colón
1911 Libertad
1911-1918 Nacional 207
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Abdón Porte (1880 - 5 March 1918) was an Uruguayan footballer.

Contents

Playing career

Club career

Porte played for Colón from 1910. He moved to Libertad in 1911 before transferring to Nacional in the same year.[1]

Playing for Nacional Porte won four league titles. Until his death he played 207 times.[1][2]

International career

Porte was a member of the Uruguay squad that won the 1917 South American Championship but did not play a game at the tournament.[3]

Death

Porte shot himself in the centre of the Estadio Gran Parque Central during the night of 5 March 1918. His death followed period in which he was not selected for the first team. His body and a suicide note were found the next morning.[4]

The western stand at the Parque Central was named in his honour.

References

  1. ^ a b "ABDON PORTE (Peñarol, Anos 10)" (in Portuguese). Planeta do Futebol. 16 June 2005. http://www.planetadofutebol.com/artigos/abdon-porte-penarol-anos-10. Retrieved 7 December 2009. 
  2. ^ "La Muerte de Abdón Porte" (in Spanish). Club Nacional de Football. http://www.nacionaldigital.com/historia/Hechos/porte.htm. Retrieved 7 December 2009. 
  3. ^ "Southamerican Championship 1917". RSSSF. http://www.rsssf.com/tables/17safull.html. Retrieved 7 December 2009. 
  4. ^ Galeano, Eduardo H. (1998). "Death on the Field". Soccer in sun and shadow. Verso. pp. 41. 
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