Good Bye at The Most Goaler of America

Goodbye to the scorer of America
 
Spencer is remembered as the “magic head” of the manyas
The remains of the Ecuadorian player of land lying in Uruguayan history. Ecuador and Alberto Spencer mourned today in Uruguay was fired from his glorious Peñarol player.
Although the Uruguayan government offered the Spencer family that player remains were buried in the Pantheon of the Olympics, his son Alberto Spencer told BBC Sport that refused the honor, since that was not the wish of his father and also “was a lack of respect for the Olympians who wore the blue with such glory.

However, the family thanked the request of the government of Uruguay, obviously that Spencer “was Uruguayan and Olympic.

“I always talk with your family. His desire was to be buried in Uruguay. He made his living in Uruguay where he has three children, seven grandchildren, his wife and friends. Beyond Ecuador worship, his closest ties are here,” said his son.

Spencer’s coffin through the streets of Guayaquil. Once in the coliseum and once in the stadium, Barcelona fans and thousands of Ecuadorians, evoked the first steps in who became the top scorer in the  Cup with 54 goals.

   Unfortunately could not fulfill his dream of seeing his beloved Ecuador him participating in a World Cup, but was fortunate to see him on television last two World Cup which filled him with pride and gratitude to the players.

Alberto Spencer, the son of Alberto Spencer

The remains of football left Ecuadorian soil on Monday afternoon and arrived in Uruguay where hundreds of people turned out today to Cr Gastón Guelfi Palacio to sack who made the Aurinegra glorious.

For his beloved Ecuador

Alberto Spencer told BBC Sport that remembers her father as a person of integrity, caring and a father who gave us everything in his power, education, a happy childhood and a family together. ”

“I was very young when I first saw him play. I have no clear memories of being on the field watching him play. I saw through transmitting television images showed the press or when commemorating a significant moment in the history of Peñarol mainly, “said Spencer. “My mother went to the stadium because he got very nervous about what the injuries.”

According to his son, Spencer fulfilled all his dreams. His career was plagued by success.

Besides its mark on the Libertadores, was established in the second scorer, behind Pele, Intercontinental Cup with six goals and scored over 360 goals in the shirt of Peñarol.

To this we add seven Uruguayan league titles, three of the Copa Libertadores and two from the Intercontinental.

   Just as the Brazilian team Santos became known as “the team of Pele, the Spanish Real Madrid of Puskas as the team” and “at Peñarol was known as the Spencer team.

Former president of Uruaguay and current honorary president of Peñarol, José María Sanguinetti

However, the idol for millions in the decades of the 50, 60 and 70 could not realize one of his dreams as a footballer

“Unfortunately he could not fulfill his dream of seeing his beloved Ecuador him participating in a World Cup, but was fortunate to see him on television last two World Cup which filled him with pride and gratitude to the players. But it was not something that marked him negatively.

“One of his dreams was to play in a World Cup, yet he had the possibility that the Uruguayan government nationalized it and himself for his beloved Ecuador did not accept the proposal because his dream was to play with Ecuador in a World with no other country” .

And so, his love of Ecuador made to reject the proposal of the Uruguayan government to defend the jersey charrúa. However, he defended until the last moment the team jersey coal.

“The Spencer Peñarol”

They marveled at his jump and he headbutts. “It was a fairly complete player for his era, an era that had stars like Pele, for example,” Spencer said.

 
Thousands of Ecuadorians, including Barcelona fans, Spencer dismissed in Ecuador.

The former president of Uruaguay and current honorary president of Peñarol, Jose Maria Sanguinetti, highlighted in his human qualities Spencer “built bridges of brotherhood between Ecuador and Uruguay”, as quoted by news agency EFE.

Sanguinetti recalled that as the Brazilian team Santos became known as “the team of Pele, the Spanish Real Madrid of Puskas as the team” and “at Peñarol was known as the Spencer team.

Spencer died last Thursday in Cleveland, USA, where he underwent heart surgery.

The footballer had just been promoted to Minister with consular functions in Uruguay by the government of Ecuador.