Agustín Balbuena

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Agustín Balbuena
BALBUENA-INDEPENDIENTE-ATLÉTICO-MADRID.jpg
Balbuena (in the picture on the right) after his goal
in the first leg of the 1974 World Cup final
Personnel
Surname Agustín Alberto Balbuena
birthday September 1, 1945
place of birth Santa Fe ,  Argentina
size 175 cm
position attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1964-1969 Colon de Santa Fe 114 (22)
1970 Rosario Central 20 0(1)
1971-1975 Independiente Avellaneda 172 (41)
1976 Racing Club 19 0(3)
1976-1977 Atlético Bucaramanga 10 0(0)
1977-1988 CD FAS
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1974 Argentina 8 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Agustín Alberto Balbuena (born September 1, 1945 in Santa Fe ) is a former Argentine football player. Very successful at club level with CA Independiente, among others , he took part in the 1974 World Cup in Germany with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Agustín Balbuena began his football career in 1964 with Colón de Santa Fe in his hometown. For Colón, at that time not belonging to the top Argentinian league, Balbuena was under contract for five years until 1969 and during this time came to 114 league games in which he scored 22 goals.

After a one-year stint at Rosario Central , where Balbuena was runner-up in the Nacional 1970 and made a total of twenty league games with one goal, the most successful part of Agustín Balbuensa's playing career began. He played from 1971 to 1975 in the attack of Independiente Avellaneda for four years and was instrumental in ensuring that the club from the Bonaren suburb of Avalleneda won the championship once, the Copa Libertadores four times and the World Cup once . After the championship in the Metropolitano in 1971, they first prevailed in the Copa Libertadores in 1972 when the Peruvian representative Universitario de Deportes was defeated 2-1 on a two-way round in the final. In the subsequent game for the World Cup they were still defeated by Ajax Amsterdam by Johan Cruyff with 1: 1 and 0: 3. After they had also prevailed in the Copa Libertadores 1973 - this time with a 2-1 win in the extension of the playoff against Colo-Colo Santiago from Chile - the team of coach Roberto Ferreiro , in which, among others, players such as Ricardo Pavoni , Daniel Bertoni and Francisco Sá played and won the World Cup this time with a 1-0 win against Juventus Turin . The following year they were again in the game for this trophy, but lost to Atlético Madrid . Previously, they won the Copa Libertadores again for the third time in a row against São Paulo in the playoff. Independiente managed the same in 1975 in the final against Unión Española , again only after the play-off. To this day, these four Copa Libertadores victories in a row are an uncatched record in South American football and world football.

After the Libertadores victory in 1975 Agustín Balbuena left Independiente Avellaneda and joined the Racing Club , arch-rival of his old club, where he acted in attack for a year and made nineteen first division games with three goals during that time. He then went to Atlético Bucaramanga in Colombia to end his career there and at CD FAS in El Salvador . At FAS, Agustín Balbuena ended his footballing career in 1978 at the age of 33.

National team

In 1974 Agustín Balbuena came to a total of eight appearances in the Argentine national football team . He did not succeed in scoring. He was appointed to the South American squad for the 1974 World Cup in Germany by national coach Vladislao Cap . At the tournament Balbuena, who was set up by Cap more as a midfielder than as an attacker, played as a regular and made four tournament games and thus half of his international matches. But even Balbuena couldn't prevent the Argentine team from being eliminated in the second final round after extremely average performances, after finishing last in Group A behind the Netherlands , Brazil and the German Democratic Republic .

successes

1973 with Independiente Avellaneda
1972 , 1973 , 1974 and 1975 with Independiente Avellaneda
Metropolitano 1971 with Independiente Avellaneda
1972, 1973, 1974 with Independiente Avellaneda

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personal data
SURNAME Balbuena, Agustín
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Balbuena, Agustín Alberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH September 1, 1945
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Fe , Argentina