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Pedro Rocha
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Uruguayan association football player and manager (1942–2013)
Key facts
- 1978
- Coritiba
- 1979
- Palmeiras
- 1980
- Bangu
- 1981
- Inter de Limeira
- 1983
- Inter de Limeira
- 1987
- Botafogo-SP
- 1988
- Mogi Mirim
- 1990
- Mogi Mirim
- 1991
- Mogi Mirim
- 1992
- Novorizontino
- 1995
- Mogi Mirim
- 1996
- Internacional
- 1997
- Kyoto Purple Sanga
- 1998
- Ponte Preta
- 1999
- Ituano
- Full name
- Pedro Virgilio Rocha Franchetti
- Date of birth
- ( 1942-12-03 ) 3 December 1942
- Place of birth
- Salto , Uruguay
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Pedro
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Brazil
- Place of birth
- Salto
- Place of death
- São Paulo
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 1962 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras
- Position played
- midfielder
- Country for sport
- Uruguay
- Mass
- 78
- Image
- Pedro Rocha c1966b.jpg
- Height
- 181
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- date of death
- 2013-12-02
- date of birth
- 1942-12-03
- Commons category
- Pedro Rocha
- name in native language
- Pedro Virgilio Rocha
- cause of death
- stomach cancer
- end of work period
- 1980-00-00
- start of work period
- 1960-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 2
- total goals in career
- 1
- manner of death
- natural causes
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals
Pedro Virgilio Rocha Franchetti ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpeðɾo ˈrotʃa]; 3 December 1942 – 2 December 2013) was a Uruguayan footballer who played 52 games for the Uruguay national team between 1961 and 1974. Nicknamed "el Verdugo" ("the Executioner"), he was a highly skillful midfielder and a prolific goalscorer, regarded by Pelé as "one of the 5 best players in the world". He was listed by the IFFHS as the 37th greatest South American player of the XXth century.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Pedro Rocha” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.