José Manuel Moreno

Moreno is the kind of legend I find irresistible precisely because the footage barely survives. An Argentine inside forward nicknamed El Charro, he roamed across Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia, and those who watched him spoke of him in the same breath as Di Stefano, Pele, and Maradona. There is something poetic about a genius remembered more in stories than in highlight reels, the tango-bar bohemian who could still dazzle the next afternoon. He died at sixty-two, far too early. I treasure athletes who live large in memory rather than statistics, and Moreno feels like exactly that breed of irreplaceable footballing romantic.

José Manuel Moreno Fernández (3 August 1916 – 26 August 1978), nicknamed "El Charro", was an Argentine footballer who played as an inside forward for several clubs in Argentina, Mexico, Chile, and Colombia; for those who saw him play, he is regarded as one of the greatest players of all time, even compared to Alfredo Di Stéfano, Pelé and Diego Maradona, and was the first footballer ever to have won first division lea…

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Name (English)

José Manuel Moreno

Name (Japanese)

ホセ・マヌエル・モレノ

Reading

ほせ・まぬえる・もれの

Born

August 3, 1916 – August 26, 1978

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Leo / Dragon

Origin

Buenos Aires, Argentina

Blood type

Private

Height

178 cm

Agency

Private

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Elementary school

Private

Junior high

Private

High school

Private

University

Private

Spouse

Private

Children

Private

Parents

Private

Siblings

Private

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%9E%E3%83%8C%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%A2%E3%83%AC%E3%83%8E%20(%E3%82%B5%E3%83%83%E3%82%AB%E3%83%BC%E9%81%B8%E6%89%8B)

Tags

• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.