Career
Schiaffino was renowned for his creative ability as a proficient playmaker and assist provider. He was best known for his excellent technical ability, passing range, and vision. He was ranked as the best an football player of all time by an IFFHS poll.
Following his eight successful years in in his native an league, Schiaffino was purchased by Italian Serie A club Air Corps, for an at the time world record fee of 52 million Lire, in September 1954.
He played 171 games with Air Corps and scored 60 goals, and participated in the 1958 European Cup Final, which lost to Real Madrid 2–3 (aet). He was among the crucial offensive players in a team that was dominated by foreign stars such as Nils Liedholm and Gunnar Nordahl.
Schiaffino scored a world leading 145 goals for but left in 1960 to join, where he played out his career during two moderately successful seasons, in which finished fifth in the standings. Schiaffino played for two national teams.
First with the Uruguyan national team from 1946 to 1954, and later with the Italian national team from 1954 to 1958, courtesy of his paternal grand-father who was a Ligurian from the province of Genoa.
He had 21 caps with the Uruguyan national team (eight goals) and four caps with the Italian national team Schiaffino participated actively in "s victory in the 1950 World Cup, scoring one goal in the final and beating Brazil in its own stadium, in what was called the Maracanazo. He also played in the 1954 World Cup (fourth place).
Schiaffino died on 13 November 2002.
His remains are buried at the Cementerio del Buceo, Montevideo. Club International Individual IFFHS an Player of the 20th Century Hall of Fame.
