Oscar Aldo Moglia Eiras (February 1, 1935 – October 8, 1989) was a

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player from

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Club career

During his

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career, Moglia played with the Uruguayan team

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. He won five Uruguayan Federal Championships (1953, 1956, 1957, 1966, 1967). He was the league's second all-time highest scorer, after

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, with 11,374 career total points scored.

National team career

With the senior

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, Moglia was the top scorer in points per game, of the

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, with a scoring average of 18.7 points per game. He was also named to the All-Tournament Team. He won the bronze medal at the

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, in

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. He was also the leading scorer of that tournament, with a scoring average of 26.0 points per game. He also played at the

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. He won gold medals at the 1953 FIBA South American Championship and the 1955 FIBA South American Championship, and a silver medal at the 1958 FIBA South American Championship. He was the leading scorer of the

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three times, (

1955 Events January * January 3 – José Ramón Guizado becomes president of Panama. * January 17 – , the first nuclear-powered submarine, puts to sea for the first time, from Groton, Connecticut. * January 18– 20 – Battle of Yijian ...

1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...

1960 It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism. Events January * Ja ...

). On June 11, Moglia was inducted to the

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, class of 2021

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