Antonio Sastre

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Antonio Sastre
Antonio Sastre EG.JPG
Sastre 1940 in El Grafico magazine
Personnel
birthday April 27, 1911
place of birth Lomas de ZamoraArgentina
date of death November 23, 1987
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1931-1941 CA Independiente 340 (112)
1942-1946 Sao Paulo FC 129 0(58)
1947 Gimnasia y Esgrima LP 14 00(4)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1933-1941 Argentina 34 00(6)
1 Only league games are given.

Antonio Sastre (born April 27, 1911 in Lomas de Zamora , † November 23, 1987 ) was an Argentine football player. Very successful at club level, especially at CA Independiente , he won the Copa America twice with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Antonio Sastre, born in 1911 in Lomas de Zamora, in the province of Buenos Aires , began his football career in Avellaneda near CA Independiente . The midfielder played for Independiente from 1931 to 1941 for eleven years in 340 league games, in which he scored 112 goals. Antonio Sastre was part of the team from Independiente in the 1930s around players like Arsenio Erico or Vicente de la Mata , who in 1938 won the first Argentine championship for the club. In the Primera División they ranked after the end of all game days in first place with a lead of two points over defending champion River Plate . The following year they were able to defend this title and put themselves at the top of the table again, this time with a lead of six points again over River Plate and the tied CA Huracán . Then the first great years of Independiente Avellaneda were over for the time being, it was now until 1948 before the club could win a championship title again. At this point Antonio Sastre had not stayed at the Estadio La doble Visera for a long time . The game designer left the club in 1941 after eleven years and 340 games in the league.

Antonio Sastre's new employer was the Brazilian club São Paulo FC . In Brazil , the midfielder was under contract for five years from 1942 to 1946. In these five years Sastre and his club won the title of the São Paulo State Championship three times . In 1943, 1945 and 1946 you were victorious in this competition. Since there was no uniform championship in Brazil at the time, Antonio Sastre did not have the opportunity to add a Brazilian title to his Argentinian championship. In 1946 Sastre then brushed his sails again in São Paulo , after he had previously made 129 games in the national championship, in which a total of 58 goals had jumped out.

He then returned to his home in Argentina, where he played in Primera B for Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata . With Gimnasia y Esgrima, Sastre finished his career at first place in the second division, which meant promotion to the Primera División . After the second division season in 1947, Antonio Sastre ended his football career at the age of 36.

National team

Between 1933 and 1941 Antonio Sastre made a total of 34 international matches for the Argentine national soccer team . He got six hits. In his national team career, Sastre managed to win the Copa America twice . In the Campeonato Sudamericano in 1937 in their own country they won the playoff against Brazil 2-0 after extra time, which brought in their first title win in this competition in eight years. Antonio Sastre celebrated a second success in the Copa América in the 1941 edition , when they secured first place in Chile with a two-point lead over their eternal rival of those years, Uruguay . After this South American Championship, Antonio Sastre's national team career ended after 34 missions. Like many other players of his generation, however, he was denied participation in a soccer world championship . Argentina only competed with amateurs in Italy in 1934 , after which it took 24 years before a World Cup participation was achieved again.

successes

1937 and 1941 with the Argentine national team
1938 and 1939 with CA Independiente
1943, 1945 and 1946 with São Paulo FC
1947 with Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata

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