Guillermo Stábile

Guillermo Stábile

Stábile with the Argentina national team in 1930.
Personal information
Full name Guillermo Stábile
Date of birth (1905-01-17)17 January 1905
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death 26 December 1966(1966-12-26) (aged 61)
Place of death Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position Centre forward
Youth career
Sportivo Metán
1920–1923 Huracán
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1924–1930 Huracán 119 (102)
1930–1934 Genoa 41 (15)
1934–1935 Napoli 20 (3)
1935–1936 Genoa 41 (16)
1936–1939 Red Star Paris ? (?)
National team
1930 Argentina 31 (23)
Teams managed
1931–1932 Genoa (co-manager)
1937–1939 Red Star Paris
1939–1940 San Lorenzo
1939–1960 Argentina
1940–1941 Estudiantes de La Plata
1940–1949 Huracán
1949–1960 Racing Club

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Guillermo Stábile (17 January 1905 – 26 December 1966) was an Argentine footballer and manager who played as a forward. At club level, Stábile won two national championships with Huracán and played in Italy and France. He was the top-scorer of the first 1930 World Cup. As manager, he led Argentina to victory at six South American Championships and the suburban Buenos Aires side Racing Club to three league titles.He played for seven years in River Plate and he scored 417 goals.

Club career

Early career

Stábile was born in Parque Patricios, Buenos Aires. He began his career with local club Sportivo Metán and from 1920, with Huracán. In 1924, he progressed to the first team which played in Argentina's top league, which then still had amateur status. He started out on the right wing but soon evolved into a centre forward. Stábile won many competitions with Huracán, most notably the championships of 1925 and 1928 and the regional trophy Copa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren in 1925.

Genoa

After capturing the world's attention with his impressive feats in the First World Cup, he was signed by Genoa. He instantly became a fan favourite, scoring a hat-trick on his debut against rivals Bologna. He stayed with the Genoan club for five years, playing 41 games and scoring 16 goals.

Napoli

During the 1935–36 season, he moved to Napoli with Antonio Vojak transferring the other way to Genoa. This was during the era where with Attila Sallustro another South American legend played for Napoli. The club finished 8th in the league with Stábile scoring three goals in twenty games.

Red Star Paris

As a last act of his playing career, Stábile moved to Red Star Paris in Paris, the club founded by Jules Rimet, who led to the first World Cup in 1930. He stayed with the club until 1939 with the last honour of his playing career being helping the club achieve promotion, from Division 2 back into Division 1. He also served as player-manager for the club.

International career

Stábile celebrating the Argentina's 2nd. goal v. Uruguay at the 1930 final.

Stábile made his debut for the Argentina national team at the age of 25, in his team's second match in the first ever FIFA World Cup held in 1930 in Uruguay. He did not play in Argentina's first match of the competition against France.[1]

His debut came in the following game against Mexico because the first choice striker Roberto Cherro couldn't play due to an anxiety attack. The game finished 6–3 to Argentina, with Stábile scoring a hat-trick on his debut. This was long thought to be the first World Cup hat-trick, until 76 years later on 10 November 2006 world football's governing body FIFA declared that Bert Patenaude had scored the first hat-trick two days prior to Stábile.[2]

The final game of the group stages saw Argentina facing South American rivals Chile. They won the game 3–1 with Stábile scoring twice, meaning that Argentina had qualified for the semi-finals, against the United States. The South Americans breezed through, with a 6–1 victory; Stábile added two more goals to his account and securing Argentina a place in the finals.

On 30 July 1930, the first ever World Cup final took place, between Argentina and Uruguay. At half time Argentina led 2–1, Stábile having scored the second goal. However, they went on to lose 4–2.

Despite losing the final, Stábile made history, becoming the top scorer in the first ever FIFA World Cup, with his tally of 8 goals in 4 games. It turned out that he would never play for Argentina again, and thus he scored in every game he played for his country, with an average of two goals per match.

International goals

Argentina's goal tally first

# Date Round Venue Opponent Score Result Competition Report
1. 19 July 1930 Group 1 Estadio Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay  Mexico 1–0 6–3 1930 FIFA World Cup
2. 19 July 1930 Group 1 Estadio Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay  Mexico 3–1 6–3 1930 FIFA World Cup
3. 19 July 1930 Group 1 Estadio Parque Central, Montevideo, Uruguay  Mexico 6–3 6–3 1930 FIFA World Cup
4. 22 July 1930 Group 1 Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay  Chile 1–0 3–1 1930 FIFA World Cup
5. 22 July 1930 Group 1 Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay  Chile 2–1 3–1 1930 FIFA World Cup
6. 26 July 1930 SF Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay  United States 3–0 6–1 1930 FIFA World Cup
7. 26 July 1930 SF Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay  United States 6–0 6–1 1930 FIFA World Cup
8. 30 July 1930 Final Estadio Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay  Uruguay 2–1 2–4 1930 FIFA World Cup

Managerial career

Stábile had received his first taste of managing, way back in the 1931–32 season at Genoa, long before he retired from playing. Here he spent the aforementioned season as a co-manager, alongside Luigi Burlando.

After a year at Red Star Paris, he became player-manager for the club; this included the season in which they were promoted from Ligue 2. Stábile left the French club, to coach the Argentine national team. He began his spell in 1939.

Stábile coached Argentina to six South American Championship trophies: in 1941, 1945, 1946, 1947, 1955 and 1957. After the first round exit at the 1958 World Cup, where Argentina lost the last of its three matches with 1–6 to Czechoslovakia, his time with the national side came to a halt. He was called back to the helm of Argentina in 1960 and he led Argentina in the third and last edition of the Panamerican Football Championship, which took place in Costa Rica.

With the Argentine national side, as a coach (just as he had as a player) Stábile, set records; he coached the national team in 123 official matches gaining 83 victories, making him one of the few coaches with more than 100 international matches in charge.

While managing the national side, he also had spells coaching three other clubs, first the club where he began his career, Huracán and then later Ferro and Racing Club. He led Racing to three consecutive championships between 1949 and 1951.[3]

Stábile retired from management in 1960 to take up the role of director of the Argentine national school of football managing, a post he held, until his death in 1966.

Honours

Club

Huracán

Managerial

Argentina
Racing Club

Individual

References

  1. ↑ FIFA Match Report.
  2. ↑ MSN.com
  3. ↑ RSSSF:Argentina – Coaches of Championship Teams – First Level
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Records
Preceded by
None		 FIFA World Cup Highest Goalscorer
30 July 1930 - 30 June 1954 		Succeeded by
Sándor Kocsis
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