Óscar Míguez

Óscar Omar Míguez Antón was born in Uruguay on December 5, 1927 and died in Artigas on August 19, 2006, at the age of 78. A striker, he played for Peñarol from 1948 to 1959 and ended his career at Sporting Cristal in Peru in 1960. For the Uruguayan national team, he played 39 matches and scored 27 goals between 1950 and 1958. He was champion of the 1950 World Cup, a tournament in which he scored five goals. In the 1954 World Cup, he scored three more goals and reached eight goals in World Cups, a mark that makes him Uruguay's top scorer in the competition. He also won the 1956 South American Championship.