death_date nationalcaps birth_date years death_place caps goals nationalyears image name caption fullname birth_place nationalteam height nationalgoals clubs position article_title
13 december 1964 29 11 may 1905 -1924 1924-1931 1931-1933 1933-1934 montevideo , uruguay 128 44 20 146 37 30 1923-1930 pedro_petrone_1931 . jpg pedro petrone pedro petrone wearing fiorentina shirt pedro petrone schiavone montevideo , uruguay uruguay 1.82 24 charley fc nacional fiorentina nacional striker pedro petrone

pedro petrone

pedro petrone schiavone -lrb- may 11 , 1905 -- december 13 , 1964 -rrb- was a uruguayan footballer in the striker role .
his nickname artillero , meaning artilleryman or gunner in reference to his amazing goalscoring prowess .
in his career he played for nacional , where he won two national tournaments -lrb- 1924 , 1934 -rrb- and in italy with fiorentina , where he played 44 games and scored 37 goals -lrb- top goalscorer in serie a 1931-32 -rrb- .
whilst in italy , petrone was timed in the hundred metres at 11 seconds and was said to be the fastest player in the league .
two times golden medalist in the 1924 and 1928 summer olympics , petrone also won the 1930 fifa world cup with uruguay .
he was 19 years and 1 month old when he received the 1924 gold medal and the tournament top-goalscorer award , still remaining to this day the youngest ever football golden medalist in the history of the olympic games .
petrone won 29 official caps for uruguay , scoring 24 goals , but early non-fifa officiated matches would bring his record to 80 caps and 36 goals .
he is currently seventh -lrb- 7th -rrb- in the uruguay top-goalscorers list .
he died in montevideo at the age of 59 years .
