1944 COMPETENCIA FOOTBALL-SOCCER #141 ADOLPHO PEDERNERA RIVER PLATE SGC 1.5 rare
POP 1 only 6 ever graded none ever at PSA. Player-Coach one of best in world 1940's. Great card to add to any Soccer collection...
Historic value since very few cards were produced in 1940's during WWII. Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (15 November 1918 - 12 May 1995) was an Argentine football player and coach.
Nicknamed "El Maestro" ("The Teacher"), he was widely considered to be one of the best world football players in the 1940s and one of the greatest Argentine players of all time. Pedernera was the natural conductor of both the famous River Plate team known as La Máquina ("The Machine"), with whom he won several Argentine and South American titles, and the Millonarios team called Ballet Azul ("Blue Ballet") that won the Small Club World Cup in 1953 among many others Colombian titles.
He was elected the 12th-best South American footballer of the 20th century in a poll by the IFFHS in 2000, and his name appears in the list of the 100 greatest all time footballers selected from the magazine FourFourTwo in 2017, in which he holds the 58th place. Pedernera's play with the Argentina national team, helped win the Copa América in 1941 and 1946, the latter tournament being named the Best Player. Pedernera usually played as an inside forward and was renowned for his technique and ability to create chances for other players, whilst also being a prominent goal scorer. In later years Pedernera also coached Nacional in Uruguay, Gimnasia y Esgrima (LP), Huracán, Independiente, Boca Juniors, América de Cali and River Plate. Pedernera also coached Colombia and Argentina national teams.
He is remembered in Colombia for helping the national team qualify for its first FIFA World Cup, the 1962 edition in Chile, where Colombia had a good participation. At the international level, River Plate has won 18 titles, with 12 organized by CONMEBOL and other international bodies. River Plate's official international achievements include four Copa Libertadores.