Óscar Wirth

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Óscar Wirth
Personnel
Surname Óscar Raúl Wirth Lafuente
birthday 5th November 1955
place of birth Santiago ,  Chile
size 184 cm
position goal
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1976-1979 Universidad Católica 95 (0)
1979-1980 CSD Colo-Colo 9 (0)
1980-1982 CD Cobreloa 92 (0)
1982-1983 Everton Viña del Mar 0 (0)
1983-1985 Universidad de Chile 59 (0)
1985-1986 Rot-Weiß Oberhausen 13 (0)
1986-1988 Real Valladolid 6 (0)
1988-1989 Independiente Medellin 26 (0)
1990-1993 Universidad Católica
1994 Alianza Lima
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1980-1989 Chile 12 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Óscar Raúl Wirth Lafuente (born November 5, 1955 in Santiago de Chile ) is a former Chilean football player. Active at club level for CD Cobreloa , Rot-Weiß Oberhausen and Real Valladolid , among others , he also took part in the 1982 World Cup in Spain with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Óscar Wirth, born in Chile's capital Santiago in 1955 , began playing football at the local CD Universidad Católica club , where he was accepted into the first team in 1976. Wirth, who acted in the position of goalkeeper, completed 95 league games for Universidad Católica in three years from 1976 to 1979, but was denied a title win.

After a brief engagement at CSD Colo-Colo from 1979 to 1980, Óscar Wirth switched to CD Cobreloa in the summer of 1980 . The up-and-coming club, founded only three years earlier, experienced its most successful phase in the club's history with Wirth im Tor. In 1980 they won the Chilean football championship for the first time ever after taking first place in the Primera Divisíón with three points ahead of CF Universidad de Chile . With this title win, Cobreloa was eligible for the Copa Libertadores 1981 . Surprisingly, the club, considered an outsider, not only survived the first group stage without a defeat, but was also able to repeat this in the second group stage when they qualified for the final as first in group two in front of the two Uruguayan representatives Nacional Montevideo and Peñarol Montevideo . The opponent here should be the Brazilian representative Flamengo Rio de Janeiro . After the Flamengo team around players like Zico , Tita or Júnior won the first leg 2-1, Cobreloa won the second leg 1-0. However, since no away goals rule was known in 1981, a play-off had to decide the Copa Libertadores winner. There Flamengo prevailed 2-0 in Montevideo with two goals from Zico. In the following year Óscar Wirth and CD Cobreloa met the same fate again. After Club Olimpia from Paraguay and Deportes Tolima from Colombia were relegated to their places in the second group phase , they were back in the final for the most important title in South American football. This time the opponent was Peñarol Montevideo and coach Vicente Cantatore's team did very well in the first leg. In the famous Estadio Centenario they reached a goalless draw and had reasonable hopes of winning the final. These hopes were not fulfilled, however, as Fernando Morena scored the 1-0 for Peñarol in the penultimate minute of the second leg at the national stadium in Chile and brought the Libertadores title to Uruguay.

In 1982 Óscar Wirth won his second national championship with CD Cobreloa, when he was first in the Primera División with four points ahead of Colo-Colo. Then the goalkeeper left Cobreloa and joined CD Everton de Viña del Mar , where he was not used and a year later moved on to Universidad de Chile. Here Wirth became a regular again and played 59 league games in two years from 1983 to 1985, but did not win the title. In 1985, Wirth changed employers again and also left his home country. He dared the leap to Europe and joined the German second division Rot-Weiß Oberhausen . There the Chilean only made thirteen league appearances and went to Real Valladolid in Spain in the summer of 1986 . Even with the Spanish first division club Óscar Wirth could not assert himself, in two years he only came to six appearances in the Primera División .

In 1988, Óscar Wirth returned to the American continent to play for Independiente Medellín in Colombia for a year , where he was once again the undisputed goalkeeper. Nevertheless, Wirth left Medellín after a year. He rejoined his hometown club, Universidad Católica. At the age of 38 he was in goal in 1993 when Universidad Católica reached the final of the Copa Libertadores for the first time in the club's history. But already in the first leg of the final at the Brazilian representatives FC São Paulo , Wirth had to concede five goals, compared to only one goal from Universidad Católica, so that the preliminary decision had long been made when both teams met for the second leg in Santiago de Chile. The 2-0 success, also Óscar Wirth's last game for Universidad Católica, was not enough to make up for the high defeat in the first leg. Twelve years after losing his first Copa Libertadores final, Óscar Wirth did not succeed in winning his third final in this competition.

In 1994 Wirth played again briefly for Alianza Lima in Peru before ending his football career in the same year.

National team

Between 1980 and 1989, Óscar Wirth made a total of twelve appearances in the Chilean national soccer team . A year before his first international match, he was in the squad of the team from Chile, which took part in the Copa America in 1979 and achieved second place behind Paraguay . Exactly ten years later, Óscar Wirth took part in the South American Championship a second time, but in Brazil in 1989 his team failed in the preliminary round as third in group two behind Argentina and Uruguay .

National coach Luis Santibáñez appointed Óscar Wirth to the South American squad for the 1982 World Cup in Spain. However, Wirth was not used in the tournament. For the Chilean team, this World Cup was disastrous. Without winning a single point, they were eliminated in the group stage in a group with Germany , Austria and Algeria .

successes

1980 and 1982 with CD Cobreloa
1981 and 1982 with CD Cobreloa
1993 with Universidad Católica

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personal data
SURNAME Wirth, Óscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wirth Lafuente, Óscar Raúl (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 5th November 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile , Chile