Alberto Muro

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Alberto Muro (born April 27, 1927 in Buenos Aires , † January 20, 1997 ) was an Argentine football player and coach who was under contract for most of his career with French clubs .

Player career

Little is known about Muro's life in South America; he came to France from Nacional Montevideo in 1950 . At first division FC Sochaux he became a regular player from 1951, and for this club the striker appeared at the end of the 1952/53 season for the first time on a top position in the league chasing list (rank 6 with 17 hits). This season he and his team were even runner-up behind Stade Reims , but titles in championship or cup competitions were not to be won with Sochaux in those years. That is why Alberto Muro switched to the new master OGC Nice in 1956 . He really flourished on the Côte d'Azur and was instrumental in the course that led the OGC to the quarter-finals of the 1956/57 European Cup after successes over Aarhus GF and the Glasgow Rangers . Against the Rangers it took a third game in which he succeeded in the decisive 2-1. Then it went against defending champion Real Madrid ; in the first leg in Spain Muro was "completely isolated" due to a tactical change by coach Luis Carniglia , and the second leg in front of his own audience was the only one of the seven games in which he was missing. In Division 1 , his team, in which Victor Nurenberg , Joseph Ujlaki and Jacques Foix were three other goal-hungry offensive forces, ended the following two seasons only in the middle of the table, but the Argentine shot himself in 1957/58 with 21 goals in the game even in third place among the best goal scorers. In the following season , Nice had the breakthrough, and the Aiglons' championship title - “young eagle” is the nickname for the OGC players that was used up into the 21st century - their attacker again contributed 16 hits. He no longer played in the front row, but "directed the maneuver behind the storm tips".

This was followed by a mediocre season again, also for Muro, who had lost his regular place to Héctor De Bourgoing and was given up to the second division FC Nancy during the season . With the Lorraine team and their coach Mario Zatelli , he quickly found his strength and returned to the first division just six months later. In 1961 Nancy was eighth and in 1962 even fourth, and Alberto Muro was again among the top 15 goalscorers in both seasons; Above all, however, he was considered the "soul of the team [because he] had retained many qualities regardless of his age". In 1962 he reached the cup final with his club ; in it, Nancy was defeated by AS Saint-Étienne with a goal shortly before the end of the game with 0-1 because the FC had not previously used their chances. The now 35-year-old then moved back to the Mediterranean , where second division AS Cannes had offered him a position as player- coach. After he had only reached midfield positions twice with Cannes, he worked in the same double function for the neighboring amateur club SC Draguignan in 1964/65 , where he set up himself just as often as in the following season, in which he - then again in the second division - on Corsica at AC Ajaccio worked. In 1966, shortly before the age of 39, he finally ended his playing career, in which he had scored 128 goals in 269 appearances in the top French division and 35 goals in 101 matches in the second division.

Stations

  • Nacional Montevideo (1949-1950)
  • 1951–1956: FC Sochaux
  • 1956 – December 1959: OGC Nice
  • January 1960–1962: FC Nancy (1959/60 in D2)
  • 1962–1964: AS Cannes (in D2, as player-coach)
  • 1964/65: SC Draguignan (amateur, as player-coach)
  • 1965/66: AC Ajaccio (in D2, as player-coach)

Coaching activities

Alberto Muro's career on the sidelines has not yet been fully documented. He stayed in Ajaccio for four more years , led the team to the first division in 1967 and ended his activity there at the end of the 1969/70 season after the ACA had to fight for relegation in the Barrages and his place only thanks to an increase in the league retained. During these years, he demonstrated his skills in this profession with the training of Jean-Pierre Brucato and two 19-year-old national players ( Dominique Baratelli and Marius Trésor ). From 1974 he coached another first division club with AS Monaco ; the Monegasque sacked Muro after a year and a half when the team was in acute danger of relegation. As a further coaching station, his time at Paris FC can be determined in its second division season 1981/82, where he succeeded Roger Lemerre and after whose end the club dissolved its professional department and had to make a fresh start in the amateur camp. Apparently Alberto Muro still worked for the PFC in 1982/83.

Palmarès

as a player
  • French champion: 1959 (and runner-up in 1953)
  • French cup winner: Nothing but a 1962 finalist
  • 36th position in the list of the most successful Division 1 goalscorers of all time with 128 goals
as a trainer
  • Division 2 Champion : 1967

literature

  • Jean-Philippe Rethacker / Jacques Thibert: La fabuleuse histoire du football. Minerva, Genève 2003², ISBN 978-2-8307-0661-1
  • Matthias Weinrich: The European Cup. 1955 to 1974. AGON, Kassel o. J. [2007], ISBN 978-3-89784-252-6

Web links

Notes and evidence

  1. ^ Obituary for Alberto Muro. Retrieved August 10, 2020 .
  2. ^ Marc Barreaud: Dictionnaire des footballeurs étrangers du championnat professionnel français (1932-1997). L'Harmattan, Paris 1998, ISBN 2-7384-6608-7 , p. 98
  3. ^ All of Muro's placements in the seasonal goalscorer lists from Sophie Guillet / François Laforge: Le guide français et international du football éd. 2009. Vecchi, Paris 2008, ISBN 978-2-7328-9295-5 , pp. 150-161
  4. Weinrich, p. 18
  5. Weinrich, p. 20
  6. L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: 50 ans de Coupes d'Europe. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2005, ISBN 2-951-96059-X , p. 288; Weinrich, p. 19
  7. ^ Jean-Philippe Rethacker: La grande histoire des clubs de foot champions de France. Sélection du Reader's Digest, Paris / Bruxelles / Montréal / Zurich 2001, ISBN 2-7098-1238-X , p. 100
  8. ^ Jean Cornu: Les grandes equipes françaises de football. Famot, Genève 1978, p. 123
  9. Rethacker / Thibert, p. 333
  10. L'Équipe / Gérard Ejnès: Coupe de France. La folle épopée. L'Équipe, Issy-les-Moulineaux 2007, ISBN 978-2-915-53562-4 , p. 378
  11. Rethacker / Thibert, p. 334
  12. First division numbers according to Stéphane Boisson / Raoul Vian: Il était une fois le Championnat de France de Football. Tous les joueurs de la première division de 1948/49 à 2003/04. Neofoot, Saint-Thibault o. J., second division data according to footballdatabase.eu (see under web links)
  13. Information on his coaching stations according to footballdatabase.eu (see under web links)