Autographed postcard by Juan Pignataro, author of the following song dedicated to the outstanding soccer player René Borjas, Olympic champion.

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1932 Criolla Group JUAN CRUZ TRANQUERA AND HIS

Director and lyricist Juan Pignataro

RENÉ BORJAS DIED IN HIS PRIME In memory of the late Olympic champion and outstanding center forward of Wanderers The life of a great champion has forever dimmed Weighing heavily on the fans who have praised him so much He played for the beloved team that consecrated him Borjas, sick, came with genuine affection To see his teammates and right there he passed away. The terse, cold news filled everyone with pain On the field of honor Tito fell forever While Wanderers won the championship title While with great emotion the crowd cheered him The great triumph was shrouded in mourning Uruguayan soccer lost an unmatched player Of very strict morals and faster than lightning He fought tirelessly and shone in Amsterdam With a pass he gave to Sacrone with spin Saying 'Yours, Hector' the great triumph was achieved. Tito Borjas, rest in your mansion rest in peace You will be remembered by your country and the fans With all my heart I dedicate these lines to you And from my lyre the sounds like a sacred offering Go to your final resting place the echo of my songs.

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Information Title: Criolla Group Juan Cruz Tranquera and his Author: Juan Pignataro Transcription: Milita Alfaro Publication date: 1932 Notes: Uruguay Room of the National Library Dorothée Chouitem Collection Transcription by Milita Alfaro Comes from: Uruguay Room of the National Library Dorothée Chouitem Collection Appears in collections: Repertories of Montevideo Carnival Year 1932

René Borgas Biography René Borjas (Minas, Lavalleja, Uruguay, December 23, 1897 – December 19, 1931) was a Uruguayan footballer. He played as a forward. He was an Olympic champion at the 1928 Amsterdam Olympics with Uruguay.

Career He excelled in football, joining the Uruguay Onward team (white shirt with brown horizontal stripe), an institution that in the early 1920s played in the top division of Uruguayan football. At the beginning of 1923, he moved to Atlético Wanderers of the Uruguayan Football Federation. Uruguayan football had split in a schism with two governing bodies, the Association and the Federation, and some institutions split participating in both tournaments. This was the case with Wanderers, Montevideo Wanderers remained in the AUF and Atlético Wanderers competed in the FUF.

In 1923, he won the Uruguayan championship of the dissident association, taking the title from Peñarol on the last day at Pocitos Stadium in front of more than twenty thousand people. René Borjas scored the 2-1 final goal. As champions, they qualified to face San Lorenzo de Almagro, then champion of the Argentine football federation, in the Río de la Plata Cup.

In 1925, he participated in the European tour of Club Nacional de Football, where he scored 17 goals in 14 matches, being the third top scorer of the Uruguayan team.

Once Uruguayan football was unified, he joined the Uruguayan national team for the South American Championship in Chile in early 1926. He scored goals against the host and against Argentina, where the Celestes triumphed 2-0 and secured the title. Meanwhile, locally, Wanderers finished second in the Provisional Council Tournament, losing the title to Peñarol with one match remaining.

He was the most voted in a survey that the magazine "Mundo Uruguayo" proposed for the public to choose who they preferred to be the starting forward in the 1928 Olympics with 52,134 votes against 47,037 for Pedro Cea and 46,931 for Pedro Petrone, both from Nacional.

In Amsterdam, he made the two assists in the goals against the Netherlands and in the final against Argentina, which Uruguay won 2-1. The second assist in the final is especially remembered for the phrase "Yours, Hector", which Borjas said to Héctor Scarone when he gave him the goal pass.

In 1931, he was crowned champion with Wanderers in the last Uruguayan championship of the amateur era. He was called up once again to join the Uruguayan national team in two friendlies against Hungarian teams, scoring two goals. With one match remaining in the tournament, on December 19, 1931, Wanderers faced Defensor away. Under medical prohibition, Borjas awaited the match at home until, two hours before it started, he escaped from his house and went to Luis Franzini Stadium to watch the match. He died of a heart attack after celebrating a risky play that he initially thought was a goal. One year after his death, the capital municipality paid him homage by placing a plaque in the stadium's grandstand.