Zoilo Canavery

Club

Canavery debuted in 1912 for Independiente as a right winger. On December 22, 1912, Independiente lost the Primera División playoff game to Porteño. Independiente line-up was W.Peterson; J. Idiarte, L. Calneggia; M. Deluchi, E. Sande; A. Lanatta; Z. Canavery, B. Lloveras, J. Rodríguez, E. Colla, F. Roldán. Team coach was Juan Mignaburu. The match was suspended because several players of Independiente abandoned the field after 87 minutes. The championship was awarded to Porteño on Dec 23. In 1913 Canavery was traded to River Plate, where he played only one match against Estudiantes de Buenos Aires, scoring a goal in the game in which River lost 4–2 for the Honor Cup that year. With Canavery playing for the club, River Plate would finish 3rd. in the 1913 championship. Between 1914 and 1917 Canavery played for Racing Club de Avellaneda, where some of his teammates were Ángel Betular, Alberto Ohaco, Alberto Marcovecchio, Juan Hospital and Natalio Perinetti. In Racing, Canavery won three Primera División titles (1914, 1915 and 1916), two Copa Ibarguren (1914 and 1916) and one Copa de Honor Municipalidad de Buenos Aires in 1915.

On September 3, 1914, Canavery played an international club match against the Piedmontese team Torino, that was won by Racing by 1–0 with goal of Alberto Ohaco. That same year, he played a match against the Exeter City F.C., in a match won by Exeter against the Racing Club de Avellaneda by 2 to 0. Among the figures of the English team were…

He was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, the son of Valerio Canavery and Tomasa Tones, belonging to a middle class family. His father, born in Barracas al Sud, was the son of a family of tanners of Irish and Creole descent. His mother, born in Bilbao, belonged to a family of immigrants of French Basque origin, established towards the end of the 19th century in Avellaneda. Zoilo Canavery did his elementary studies in Buenos Aires, and worked as a Municipal official in the civil registration of Avellaneda (Buenos Aires Province). He was cousin of Pedro Canaveri, a politician belonging to the Radical Party, who served as president of Club Independiente and Argentine Football Association. His paternal grandparents Pedro Canavery and Sabina Rodríguez are registered in the National Census of 1895. Juan Canaverys, great-great-grandfather of Zoilo Canavery, was a colonial official born in Saluzzo, who served during the Viceroyalty of the Río de la Plata in the Tribunal Mayor de Cuentas de Buenos Aires.