JOSE MANUEL MORENO
Date of Birth: August
3rd 1916
Place of Birth: District
Capital, Argentina
Titles won with River Plate:
* Championship 1936
* Championship 1937
* Championship 1941
* Championship 1942
José Manuel Moreno started his career
as a football
player at the club La Estrella, in Brandsen,
he came
to River in 1933 recommended by Bernabé
Ferreyra (who
was at that moment one of the greatest players).
He
made his debut wearing River Plate's colours
in 1935
against the Brazilian team Vasco Da Gamma,
in a
friendly match. Moreno was the young genious
of the
millionaire's attack, using his skills and
his talent
he played, made his teammates play along with
him,
and he scored a lot of goals, altogether he scored
179 goals (most of them with his head), which
made
him the fourth maximun scorer in River Plate's
history. In 1943 he went to México
to play in the
España club, he came back to River
in 1949 and
remained up to the year 1951, when he was
transferred
to the Chilean team Universidad Católica
de Chile,
and later on to the Uruguayan team Defensor.
He came
back to Argentina in 1952 but this time, he
went to
Boca Juniors (the only black spot in his remarkable
career), then he went through Ferro Carril
Oeste
(in 1953), Independiente de Medellín
(from 1954 to
1957), and back to Ferro Carril Oeste, where
he
finished his career as a football player.
He was
a player in the Argentinian national team
in several
ocassions, and he also managed it in 1959.
Besides
that, he managed River Plate, Boca Juniors,
Huracán,
Olimpia de Paraguay and Independiente de Medellín.
ALFREDO DI STEFANO
Date of Birth: -
Place of Birth: -
Titles won with River Plate:
As a Player:
* Championship 1947
As a Coach:
* National 1981
Alfredo Di Stéfano, was known as the
"Blond Arrow",
he started at the lower divisions of River
Plate and
made his debut in the main team in 1947. That
same
year he became the maximun scorer of the tournament
with a total of 27 goals. He only remained
in the
club for 3 years until he was transferred
to the
Colombian team Millonarios de Bogotá
in 1949, before
making a brief stop in Huracán. From
there on he
went to Spain, to the Real Madrid where he
won the
Spanish league in several opportunities and
also
became European champion. He was part of the
Argentinian national team and the Spanish
national
team as well. He is the only Coach in the
history
of Argentinian football to become champion
with
River Plate and Boca Juniors. He also was
the
coach of many Spanish Teams.
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