Schúbert Gambetta Saint Léon (14 April 1920 – 9 August 1991) was a

Uruguay Uruguay (; ), officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay ( es, República Oriental del 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 ...

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby ...

. He played as a half-back and was right-footed. Gambetta was a figure in the Maracanazo when he helped keep

Zizinho Thomaz Soares da Silva, also known as Zizinho (; 14 September 1921 – 8 February 2002), was a Brazilian footballer who played as an attacking midfielder for the Brazil national football team. He came to international prominence at the 19 ...

and Ademir out of the game, which helped him to the

1950 FIFA World Cup The 1950 FIFA World Cup was the fourth edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams and held in Brazil from 24 June to 16 July 1950. The planned 1942 and 1946 World Cups were ...

All-Star Team. From 1940 to 1956, he played for

Club Nacional de Football Club Nacional de Football (, ''National Football Club'' or simply as Nacional) is a Uruguayan professional sports club based in Montevideo. The club was founded on 14 May 1899 as a result of the merger between ''Uruguay Athletic Club'' and ''Mon ...

, winning the Uruguayan championship ten times and captaining the team. He also earned 37 caps and scored three goals for the

Uruguay national football team The Uruguay national football team ( es, Selección de fútbol de Uruguay) represents Uruguay in international football, and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uruguay. The Uruguayan team i ...

from 1941 to 1952. He was part of Uruguay's championship team at the

Domestic Honours

* Primera División Uruguaya ''Winner'': 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1947, 1950, 1952, 1955 and 1956. * Primera División Uruguaya ''Runner up'': 1944, 1945, 1949, 1951, 1953 and 1954. * Torneo de Honor ''Winner'': 1940, 1941, 1942, 1943, 1946, 1948 and 1955. * Torneo Competencia ''Winner'': 1942, 1945, 1948 and 1952. * Torneo Cuadrangular ''Winner'': 1952, 1954 and 1955. *

Copa Aldao The Copa Ricardo Aldao (English: ''Ricardo Aldao Cup''), popularly called Campeonato Rioplatense and Copa Río de La Plata, was an official AFA- AUF football club competition contested annually, albeit irregularly, between the league champions of ...

(Copa Río de la Plata) ''Winner'': 1940, 1942 and 1946. * Copa de Confraternidad Escobar - Gerona ''Winner'': 1945.

International honours

* Copa Baron de Rio Branco ''Winner'' versus Brasil: 1946 and 1948. * Copa Escobar Gerona ''Winner'': 1945 *

South American Championship 1942 The seventeenth edition of the South American Championship was held in Montevideo, Uruguay from 10 January to 7 February. For the first time seven teams took part of the event; the participating countries were Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Ecuado ...

''Winner'' * South American Championship 1947 ''Third Place'' *

''Winner'' *

''All-Star Team''

External links

* Copa America Winner * Copa America 3rd Place
Profile (in Spanish)
* All-Star Team 1950 1920 births 1991 deaths Footballers from Montevideo Uruguayan footballers Uruguay international footballers Uruguayan people of Italian descent 1950 FIFA World Cup players FIFA World Cup-winning players Uruguayan Primera División players Club Nacional de Football players C.A. Progreso players Cúcuta Deportivo footballers Uruguayan expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Colombia Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Colombia Copa América-winning players Association football defenders {{Uruguay-footy-defender-stub