In the history of sport, Omar Sívori is one of the names that keeps returning.
The record lists Omar Sívori as Italian-Argentine footballer.
Omar Sívori was born in 1935. His recorded nationality is Argentina.
The twentieth century made work collective, expensive and political, with consequences that reached well beyond the people doing it.
Omar Sívori is described as association football player and association football coach.
Omar Sívori is associated first and foremost with successful time with Italian side Juventus during the late 1950s and early 1960s, where he won three Serie A titles among other trophies. In sport the margin between the remembered and the forgotten is often a fraction of a second.
Formal recognition came in the shape of the Ballon d'Or (1961).
That the work was done from Argentina matters. Opportunity has never been evenly distributed, and where a person is based shapes which doors open and whose work gets seen.
Death came in 2005, at 70. By then the contribution had passed into the settled record.
Achievements
- Ballon d'Or — 1961
- Worked as association football player and association football coach
