Oscar Ruggeri

Oscar Ruggeri
Personnel
Surname	Oscar Alfredo Ruggeri
birthday	January 26, 1962
place of birth	Rosario , Santa Fe ,  Argentina
size	185 cm
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
	Boca Juniors
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1981-1985	Boca Juniors	155 0(9)
1985-1988	River Plate	81 0(4)
1988-1989	CD Logroñés	34 0(1)
1989-1990	real Madrid	31 0(2)
1990-1992	CA Vélez Sarsfield	55 0(5)
1992	AC Ancona	7 0(1)
1992-1993	Club America	27 0(4)
1994-1997	San Lorenzo	114 (12)
1997	CA Lanus	13 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1983-1994	Argentina	97 0(7)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1998-2001	San Lorenzo
2001-2002	Deportivo Guadalajara
2003	UAG Tecos
2003	CA Independiente
2003-2004	FC Elche
2004	Club America
2006	San Lorenzo
1 Only league games are given.

Oscar Alfredo Ruggeri (born January 26, 1962 in Rosario ) is a former Argentine football player .

Career

The center- back Ruggeri began his career with the Boca Juniors together with Diego Maradona . With the Boca Juniors he became Argentine champion in 1981. In 1985 he moved to arch rivals River Plate and in 1986 won the Copa Libertadores , the South American Champions League. The strong, headed ruggeri was world champion in the same year with the Argentine national soccer team at the soccer World Cup in Mexico in 1986 . In 1988 Ruggeri moved to the first Spanish league to CD Logroñés and in 1990 was Spanish football champion with Real Madrid . In 1990 he moved back to Argentina to Vélez Sársfield after the 1990 World Cup in Italy . At the World Cup in Italy, he again directed the Argentine defense. His defense suffered only four goals in seven games, but lost the final against Germany 1-0 with a penalty from Andreas Brehme . In 1991 Ruggeri was named Argentina's Sportsman of the Year ( Olimpia de Oro ).

In 1994 Ruggeri took part in a football World Cup for the third time . In the USA , however, his team lost to Romania in the round of 16 . Ruggeri then ended his national team career as the new record national player after 97 international matches. Only Diego Simeone was able to break his record.

In 1997 he ended his career and has been working as a football coach ever since. From 1998 to 2001 he was in charge of San Lorenzo and then went to Mexico where he trained Chivas de Guadalajara (2001-2002) and UAG Tecos (2003). This was followed by brief engagements in Argentina ( CA Independiente 2003), Spain ( FC Elche 2003/2004) and Mexico ( Club América 2004). In 2006 he was again a coach at San Lorenzo in Argentina.

Achievements (as a player)

• Soccer World Cup 1986 with Argentina
• Copa América 1991 and 1993 with Argentina
• 1986 Copa Libertadores with River Plate
• 1986 World Cup with River Plate
• Spanish championship title in 1990 with Real Madrid
• Argentinian championship titles: 1981 Metropolitano with Boca Juniors, 1985/86 with River Plate, 1995 Clausura with San Lorenzo

Web links

• Oscar Ruggeri in the database of weltfussball.de
• Oscar Ruggeri in the database of transfermarkt.de (player)
• Oscar Ruggeri in the database of transfermarkt.de (trainer)
• Ruggeris match statistics on futbolpasion.com
• Ruggeris coach statistics on FutbolXXI
• Biography on Futbol Factory ( Memento from October 20, 2007 in the Internet Archive )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olimpias de oro www.cpd.com.ar. Retrieved September 4, 2019.