Domingo Salvador Pérez Silva
(7 June 1936 – August 2024) was a Uruguayan
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kick (football), kicking a football (ball), ball to score a goal (sports), goal. Unqualified, football (word), the word ''football'' generally means the form of football t ...
forward who played for
Uruguay
Uruguay, officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay, is a country in South America. It shares borders with Argentina to its west and southwest and Brazil to its north and northeast, while bordering the Río de la Plata to the south and the A ...
in the
1962
The year saw the Cuban Missile Crisis, which is often considered the closest the world came to a Nuclear warfare, nuclear confrontation during the Cold War.
Events January
* January 1 – Samoa, Western Samoa becomes independent from Ne ...
and
1966 FIFA World Cup
The 1966 FIFA World Cup was the eighth FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial Association football, football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in England from 11 to 30 July 1966. England defeated West Germany 4–2 in the 1966 FI ...
s. He also played for
Club Nacional de Football
Club Nacional de Football (, ''National Football Club'') is a Uruguayan professional sports club based in La Blanqueada, La Blanqueada, Montevideo.
The club was founded on 14 May 1899 as a result of the merger between ''Uruguay Athletic Club'' an ...
. Pérez died in August 2024, at the age of 88.
References
External links
FIFA profile*
1936 births
2024 deaths
Uruguayan men's footballers
Footballers from Paysandú
Uruguay men's international footballers
Men's association football forwards
1962 FIFA World Cup players
1966 FIFA World Cup players
1967 South American Championship players
Copa América–winning players
Uruguayan Primera División players
Rampla Juniors players
Club Atlético River Plate footballers
Club Nacional de Football players
Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
20th-century Uruguayan sportsmen
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