Álvaro Antonio Gestido Pose (17 May 1907 — 18 January 1957) was a Uruguayan

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who played as a

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for Uruguay national team. He played for

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in club football from 1926 to 1940. He has played 26 matches for the

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, winning the

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and the

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. His brother

Óscar Diego Gestido Óscar Diego Gestido Pose (3 November 1901 – 6 December 1967), was a Uruguayan politician and military officer who was the 32nd President of Uruguay from March 1967 until his death in December of the same year. Biography Diego Gestido was fr ...

was President of Uruguay in 1967.

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