Óscar Míguez

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Míguez and the second or maternal family name is Antón.
Óscar Míguez
Míguez in 1948

Personal information
Full name Óscar Omar Miguez Antón
Date of birth 5 December 1927
Place of birth Uruguay
Date of death 19 August 2006 (aged 78)
Place of death Artigas, Uruguay
Position Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1948–1959 Peñarol
1960 Sporting Cristal
International career
1950–1958 Uruguay 39 (27)

Óscar Omar Miguez Antón (5 December 1927 – 19 August 2006) was a Uruguayan footballer who played as a forward. He was part of the Uruguay team in the 1950 and 1954 World Cups, where he played as a striker, and is Uruguay's all-time record World Cup goalscorer with eight goals.

Omar Miguez scored five times for his country on the way to a World Cup winners medal in 1950. He played all four games Uruguay played, scoring a hat-trick against Bolivia in an 8–0 win in the play-off for the final group. He struck the other two against Sweden in the last fifteen minutes of their in the final group, turning the tie around to win 3–2. These goals turned out to be decisive for the Uruguayans, as their subsequent sensational defeat of Brazil would have been useless, had it not been for the victory against Sweden. He also played in the other two final group games against Spain and Brazil.