Adolfo Pedernera

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Adolfo Pedernera
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Personnel
Surname Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera
birthday November 15, 1918
place of birth Avellaneda ,  Argentina
date of death May 12, 1995
Place of death Avellaneda ,  Argentina
position striker
Juniors
Years station
1932 CA Huracan
1933-1934 CA River Plate
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1935-1946 CA River Plate 278 (131)
1947 Club Atlético Atlanta 28 00(4)
1948 CA Huracan 20 00(2)
1949-1954 Millonarios 81 0(33)
1954 CA Huracan 10 00(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1940-1946 Argentina 21 00(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1950-1953 Millonarios (player-coach)
1954 CA Huracán (player-manager)
1955 Nacional Montevideo
1955 Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata
1955-1956 CA Huracan
1957 CA Independiente
1960-1961 America de Cali
1961–1962 Colombia
1962 Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata
1963-1967 Boca Juniors
1968 Quilmes AC
1969 Argentina
1969 CA Independiente
1970 CA Huracan
1975 CA Talleres
1976 CA Banfield
1977 America de Cali
1978 San Lorenzo de Almagro
1 Only league games are given.
Adolfo Pedernera, here on the left in the River Plate jersey with Carlos Peucelle, another great player of that era
from: El Gráfico. 51 / # 2592
Pedernera, 1937.

Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (born November 15, 1918 in Avellaneda , Buenos Aires Province , † May 12, 1995 ) was an Argentine football player and coach. "El Maestro" has achieved great successes in both functions both in his home country and in Colombia . With the national team, he won the Copa America twice .

With the Argentinian CA River Plate as well as the Colombian CD Los Millonarios , the period of his work defines the climax of the club's history.

In Argentina, Adolfo Pedernera is still generally on the list of the top five players of all time.

Player career

Early years and Maquina River Plate

Adolfo Pedernera showed talent with football from an early age. As an adolescent he first joined Cruceros de la Plata , but at the age of 14 he moved on to the CA Huracán suburb of Bonaren , where professional football was also played. But it only passed a year before he was piloted to the much more renowned CA River Plate .

With River he made his debut in the Primera División in 1935 as a 16-year-old . Originally he played in the team that had earned the nickname Millonarios in previous years through the commitment of expensive players such as the 1930 vice world champions Carlos Peucelle and Bernabé Ferreyra , in the position of left winger. On June 1, 1941, he was set up against Independiente in the Estadio Monumental for the first time on the position of the center forward. This is considered to be the birth of la Maquina ("the machine"), one of the most outstanding club formations in football history.

Pedernera often dropped far back into midfield and drove from there together with the half-right playmaker José Manuel Moreno to the offensive game, opening up space for wingers Félix Loustau and Juan Carlos Muñoz . The nominal half-left attacking midfielder Angel Labruna knew particularly well how to take advantage of the opportunities this presented and became one of the two most accurate players in the history of the Primera División. Pedernera's game as a withdrawn center forward is considered to be the outstanding innovative contribution of the Maquina to understanding tactics in football. Through the Hungarian national football team of the 1950s and the work of Alfredo Di Stéfano at Real Madrid , this interpretation of the center-forward position found its way into European football. In historical reviews, Pedernera is also often compared to the Dutchman Johan Cruyff .

In his eleven years at River Plate, Adolfo Pedernera earned the reputation of being the “brain” of the Maquina and thus made his contribution to five championships. His teammate, right-winger Juan Carlos Muñoz, said in retrospect in later years, "on the pitch he was practically the coach". In those years River celebrated with a 5-1 win in the Superclásico against Boca Juniors , the highest victory since the beginning of the professional era in this prestigious duel. His last game for River Plate on November 17, 1946 against Huracán defined the official end of the Maquina . At River Plate, the young Alfredo Di Stéfano in the jersey with the number 9 should follow him for the time being.

National team

Between 1940 and 1946 Pedernera was also used in 21 international matches for the Argentine national soccer team, scoring 8 goals. The greatest successes here were the victories at the Copa America in 1941 and 1946, as well as second place in 1942. In 1946 he was chosen as the best player of the tournament. His appearance at a soccer world championship was probably prevented because of the other Adolf .

Players union

In the meantime, Adolfo Pedernera was in charge of founding the players' union Futbolistas Argentinos Agremiados in 1944 and became its first vice-president. Between 1948 and 1949, the organization, which is still in existence today, implemented minimum salaries for players in the top two leagues with sustained strikes.

On the way to the Balet Azul from Los Millonarios

In 1947, Adolfo Pedernera accepted a million-peso offer from Club Atlético Atlanta , a club in the Villa Crespo district of Bonaren . The season ended with Atlanta's first relegation from the first division and Pedernera returned to his youth club Huracán for the 1948 season.

During a visit to Buenos Aires, Carlos Aldabe managed to convince Pedernera , the Argentinian player-coach of the CD Los Millonarios club from Bogotá , to join his team. It was certainly helpful here that due to the protracted player strikes in Argentina at that time there were limited earning opportunities for professional footballers. In addition to Pedernera, many other players, especially the stars, went abroad.

In June 1949 he was expected by 5,000 fans at the airport of the Colombian capital and escorted into the city by car parade. His first assignment at the end of the month was celebrated with gusto. “A phenomenon, an artist, a master of the passport, a player with intelligence. After the debut of El Maestro , anything is possible, ”the local press praised him.

Together with Alfredo Di Stéfano, with whom he already played in a team at River Plate, and Néstor "Pipo" Rossi , also coming from River, he reached the Colombian football championship of 1949 with the Millonarios , with Pedernera also two decisive goals in the path Tied the necessary playoff games against the runner-up Deportivo Cali .

After Carlos Aldabe resigned from the coaching post, El Maestro became player- coach . During this time, the Millonarios team became the famous Blue Ballet , the Balet Azul . The Millonarios not only won the national championships in 1951, 1952 and 1953, and last year also the Colombia Cup , but also impressed a global audience on numerous trips abroad, which took the team to Europe. One of the highlights was the three victories against Real Madrid in Chamartin , today's Estadio Santiago Bernabéu , on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the Spanish club.

In 1954, the Lima Pact, signed in 1951, forced most foreign players in Colombia, whose association was excluded from FIFA at the time , to return to their home clubs. This also affected Pedernera, who therefore played three times with Huracán in the Argentine Primera División until 1955.

Coaching career from 1955

Between 1961 and 1962 Pedernera coached the Colombian national soccer team and led them to their first finals at the 1962 World Cup in Chile . In the qualification, Colombia eliminated the favorite Peru . After the tournament he briefly trained Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata .

He had great success with the Boca Juniors in the mid-1960s . At the club, he initially ran the football school and was a technical advisor with responsibility for the entire coaching staff. Under his aegis, the successful youth development concept la Candela ("the candle") was founded. Between 1963 and 1967 he sat for long stretches in the coaching bench of the combat team. In 1965, however, he was prevented from performing his functions for most of the year due to injuries sustained in a car accident.

On the way to the first final of the Boca Juniors in the Copa Libertadores 1963 , he sat in the group game against Universidad de Chile on the bench. In the finals, however, the juniors lost to the team of FC Santos from Brazil, who dominated the world at the time with Pelé and other stars, 2: 3 and at home 1: 2. Under Pedernera's leadership, the Boca Juniors won the championship in 1964. The Boca Juniors were able to defend the title the following year with Pedernera's long-time companion and personal friend "Pipo" Rossi on the bench.

Between July and August 1969 Pedernera coached the Argentine national team for four games. But he failed with this in qualifying for the 1970 World Cup to Peru.

Pedernera's other coaching stations were Huracán, CA Independiente and River Plate, and in the 1970s CA Banfield in Argentina, América de Cali in Colombia and Nacional Montevideo in Uruguay .

Late years

In 1993 Adolfo Pedernera published his autobiography "El fútbol que viví ... y que yo siento" ( The football that I lived ... and that I feel ), which he wrote together with the journalist Alejandro Yebra. At the presentation of his work the following year at the Feria Internacional del Libro book fair in Bogotá, he met his lifelong friends Alfredo Di Stéfano and Pipo Rossi again.

In autumn 1995 Adolfo Pedernera died of a heart attack in Buenos Aires at the age of 76 . He was buried in the local cemetery Cementerio de la Chacarita .

Alfredo Di Stéfano remembers him as “the best player I have seen in my life. No doubt, Maradona was extraordinary, fantastic. The best in years. Pelé cannot be ignored either. For God's sake, even if it is difficult to make comparisons, Pedernera was a very complete player who could play on the whole field. "

statistics

societies

successes

As a trainer:

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Cómo se formó “La Máquina”, sus logros y the primer tútulo profesional. Retrieved March 28, 2014 .
  2. ↑ The Copa America Archive - Trivia in the database of RSSSF (English)
  3. ^ Official website of the Futbolistas Argentinos Agremiados
  4. ↑ Historia de Boca Juniors: Coach statistics for Adolfo Pedernera
  5. ↑ Adolfo Pedernera in the database of fussballzz.de, accessed on February 5, 2020
  6. ↑ Alfredo Di Stéfano - The Blond Arrow of Soccer ( Memento of the original from March 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.reocities.com
personal data
SURNAME Pedernera, Adolfo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pedernera, Adolfo Alfredo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH November 15, 1918
PLACE OF BIRTH Avellaneda
DATE OF DEATH May 12, 1995
Place of death Buenos Aires