Jose Andrade

Jose Leandro Andrade (known as Maravilha Negra (black wonder), or the footballer with the foot of the gold , or Largest of the large Uruguyans , or will tijera It ) was a Football or Uruguay in 1m79 for 77 kg, born the October 1st 1901 with Salto and deceased the October 5th 1957 with Montevideo (asylum Piñeyro del Campo), in the most complete destitution after being adulated crowd… then musician of cabarets (piano bar, in spite of its blindness beginner).

He was world champion in 1930 at the station of right half.

Having a control of phenomenal ball, it is especially known to have been the first black player with being world champion with Celestial the .

It was a long time an example for this community, which then regarded football as “a sport of white”.

Its nephew, Victor Pablo Rodríguez Andrade, champion of Uruguay in 1951,53 and 54 with Peñarol, was world champion with Uruguay in 1950, victorious of the Copa America in 1956, and played the small final of the world cup in 1954.

Successive clubs

CA Peñarol (team 3rd): 1921
: 1921 to 1923
Reformers (Uru): 1923
: 1923 to 1925
: 1925 to 1930 (105 matches - 4 goals)
: 1931 to 1932
: 1933
Club Atlético Atlanta: 1934 to 1935 (then defender)
then Lanús (Arg): 1935-36 (episodical - 3 parts)
: 1937 (episodical)

Prize list

Nommé Meilleur player of South America with three recoveries
a Olympic Coupe was personally decreed to him by CIO, after the Uruguyan victories of 1924 and 1928

National selection

43 national selections (33 official), of 1923 with 1930 (1 goal)
World champion 1930
Olympic champion 1924 (better player of the tournament) and 1928
Champion of South America 1923, 1924 and 1926
Lipton Cut (vis-a-vis Argentina): 1923, 1924, 1927 and 1929
Cut Newton (vis-a-vis Argentina): 1929 and 1930
Vice-champion of South America in 1927

Clubs

Champion of Uruguay 1932 (Peñarol)
Turned European of the National of 1925 (153 days, through 9 states)
Turned northern and centers American National of 1927

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