Héctor Facundo is a former Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 association football player.

Facundo started playing in 1956 at Racing Club de Avellaneda

Racing Club de Avellaneda

Racing Club is an Argentine professional football club from Avellaneda, a suburb of Greater Buenos Aires. Founded in 1903, Racing has been historically considered one of the "big five" clubs of Argentine football...

 before moving to San Lorenzo de Almagro. With San Lorenzo he won the 1959 Argentine Primera División and took part in the 1960 Copa Libertadores where they reached the semi-finals before getting knocked out by Uruguayan side C.A. Peñarol

C.A. Peñarol

Club Atlético Peñarol also known as Carboneros, Aurinegros and familiarly as Manya, is an Uruguayan sports club based in the Peñarol barrio, Montevideo, best known for its professional football team. The team plays their home matches in Estadio Centenario, the largest stadium in the country, but...

. Facundo played at San Lorenzo until 1963 and later had a spell with Club Atlético Huracán

Club Atlético Huracán

Club Atlético Huracán is a sports club from the Parque Patricios neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the second level of the Argentine football league system. Huracán home stadium is the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó.Huracán was...

.

With Argentina national football team

Argentina national football team

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 Facundo played in the 1959 South American Championship in Ecuador

Ecuador

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 where they finished runners-up behind Uruguay. At the tournament Facundo appeared in matches against Paraguay, Ecuador and Brazil.

Facundo was also called up to Argentina squad for the 1962 FIFA World Cup

1962 FIFA World Cup

The 1962 FIFA World Cup, the seventh staging of the World Cup, was held in Chile from 30 May to 17 June. It was won by Brazil, who retained the championship by beating Czechoslovakia 3–1 in the final...

 in Chile

Chile

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, where they were eliminated in the group stage. He only appeared in their opening 1–0 win against Bulgaria, in which he scored the winning goal.

External links

• Héctor Facundo at BDFA