Omar Caetano

Omar Caetano

Personal information
Full name	Omar Caetano Otero
Date of birth	November 8, 1938(1938-11-08)
Place of birth	Uruguay
Date of death	July 2, 2008(2008-07-02) (aged 69)
Place of death	Uruguay
Height	1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Playing position	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
1961–1975	Peñarol
1975	New York Cosmos	8	(0)
National team
1965–1969	Uruguay	29	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals).

Omar Caetano Otero (8 November, 1938 – July 2, 2008) was a Uruguayan footballer. He represented Uruguay at the 1966 FIFA World Cup and 1970 FIFA World Cup.

He played club football with Peñarol, where he won 8 league titles, 4 major international titles and played in a record 57 derby matches against rivals Nacional.^[1] He also spent the 1975 season in the NASL with the New York Cosmos.^[2]

On July 2, the official site of Peñarol announced that Caetano had died.

Titles

National titles

Season	Team	Title
1962	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1964	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1965	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1967	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1968	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1973	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1974	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera
1975	Peñarol	Uruguayan Primera

International titles

Season	Team	Title
1961	Peñarol	Copa Libertadores
1961	Peñarol	Copa Intercontinental
1966	Peñarol	Copa Libertadores
1966	Peñarol	Copa Intercontinental

References

1. ^ Clasico statistics
2. ^ "NASL All-time Player Register". http://home.att.net/~nasl/players.htm#C. Retrieved 2008-02-23. 

External links

• (German) Player profile at Fußballdaten.de
• Player profile at FIFA
• Player profile at PlayerHistory.com
• NASL career stats

Persondata
Name	Caetano, Omar
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	1938-11-08
Place of birth	Uruguay
Date of death	2008-07-02
Place of death	Uruguay