Alcides Ghiggia 1926 – 2015

Biography

Alcides Ghiggia was born on November 22, 1926, in Montevideo, Uruguay, during a golden era for South American football. He would go on to become an accomplished footballer, contributing to Uruguayan sport during a significant period in the nation’s athletic history. Throughout his life, Ghiggia remained connected to his homeland and the community that shaped him.

On July 16, 2015, Ghiggia passed away in Las Piedras at the age of 88, following a myocardial infarction. His death marked the end of a long life lived during transformative decades in Uruguay and across the football world. He was laid to rest at Cementerio del Buceo in Montevideo, a final resting place that reflects his deep roots in the city of his birth.

Ghiggia’s legacy endures as part of Uruguay’s rich sporting heritage, remembered as a footballer who lived through and participated in a remarkable period of the sport’s development in South America.