Dagoberto Fontes Figueredo (6 June 1943 – 4 May 2024) was an Uruguayan
football
Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...
er who played as a
forward
Forward is a relative direction, the opposite of backward.
Forward may also refer to:
People
* Forward (surname)
Sports
* Forward (association football)
* Forward (basketball), including:
** Point forward
** Power forward (basketball)
** Sm ...
or
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
, notably for
Defensor Sporting
Defensor Sporting Club is a sports club based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Founded in 1913, Defensor has several sports sections, with football and basketball being the most important and the ones in which the club has achieved significant achievemen ...
. He represented the
Uruguay national team at the
1970 FIFA World Cup
The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the ninth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's senior national teams. Held from 31 May t ...
. Fontes died on 4 May 2024, at the age of 80.
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References
External links
FIFA profile
1943 births
2024 deaths
Uruguayan men's footballers
Footballers from Maldonado Department
Men's association football forwards
Men's association football midfielders
Uruguay men's international footballers
1970 FIFA World Cup players
Club Nacional de Football players
Defensor Sporting players
Club Puebla players
Tigres UANL footballers
Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Mexico
Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico
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