Antony de Ávila

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Antony de Ávila
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Personnel
Surname Antony Wílliam de Ávila Charris
birthday December 21, 1962
place of birth Santa Marta ,  Colombia
size 160 cm
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1983-1987 America de Cali 470 (169)
1987-1988 Unión de Santa Fe 37 0(17)
1988-1995 America de Cali
1996-1997 New York Metro Stars 31 0(15)
1997-1999 Barcelona SC Guayaquil 55 0(18)
2009 America de Cali 9 00(2)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1983-1998 Colombia 53 0(13)
1 Only league games are given.

Antony Wílliam de Ávila Charris (born December 21, 1962 in Santa Marta ) is a former Colombian football player. He was part of the América de Cali team , which reached the Copa Libertadores final three times in a row in the mid-1980s and continued to take part in two World Cups with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Antony de Ávila was born on December 21, 1962 in Santa Marta , a city on the Caribbean coast of Colombia . Even as a teenager, the 1.60-meter-tall attacker played for América de Cali , where he was accepted into the first team in 1983 at the age of 21. The club was one of the absolute elite of Colombian club football and celebrated the second championship in club history the year before de Ávila's arrival in the first team. Of course, this success did not come out of nowhere, because America was given massive support in the 1970s and 80s by the so-called Cali cartel , one of the largest criminal organizations in Colombia. Antony de Ávila's dedication of his decisive goal in Colombia's World Cup qualification for the 1998 tournament should also be understood in this context. He dedicated the decisive 1-1 draw against Argentina to "those who are in prison". This should mean the Orejuela brothers who, as heads of the Cali cartel, made the upswing of de Ávila's club América de Cali possible in the first place.

Antony de Ávila played in the first phase from 1983 to 1987 for América de Cali and was thus a key player in the club's most successful phase. It was the absolute heyday of America, the club won the Colombian championship five times in a row between 1982 and 1986 and dominated the country's club football during this time. In 1985 , they were only the second team in the Andean country to advance to the final of the Copa Libertadores after local rivals Deportivo Cali . Here, however, they failed in the penalty shoot-out of the play-off against the Argentine representative Argentinos Juniors . De Ávila missed the decisive penalty. In the next two years, coach Gabriel Ochoa Uribe's team would repeat this. Dotted with players like goalkeeper Julio Falcioni , Luis Fernando Herrera and Ricardo Gareca , América de Cali reached the final again in the 1986 competition , but this time lost to CA River Plate from Argentina with 1: 3 on a return leg. And the following year, the club did a perfect hat trick in that regard. For the third time in a row, America moved into the final of the Libertadores Cup, but lost for the third time. Against CA Peñarol of Uruguay , the decisive goal in favor of Peñarol came in the last minute of extra time in the play-off.

1987 Antony de Ávila left America de Cali for a year to play in the Argentine Primera División for Unión de Santa Fe . De Ávila made 37 league games with seventeen goals for Unión and then returned to América de Cali in his Colombian homeland after just a year. He then remained loyal to the club until 1995 and celebrated with this two more championship titles in 1990 and 1992. In general, the star of América de Cali slowly declined again in the course of the nineties, along with the ongoing fight against cartels that spanned the entire Colombian Football streaked. Especially internationally, América could no longer match the achievements of the second half of the eighties. In 1996 they moved into the final of the Copa Libertadores, but lost again to River Plate. At this point, however, Antony de Ávila no longer played for América de Cali. He left his employer a second time in 1995 and moved to the New York Metro Stars in Major League Soccer after 470 games and 201 goals (de Ávila is by far the record scorer of América de Cali) .

There de Ávila spent the years 1996 and 1997 and made 31 games with fifteen goals. Meanwhile, already 35 years old, the diminutive striker closed in summer 1997 the Barcelona SC Guayaquil from Ecuador's Guayaquil on. It was here that Antony de Ávila ended his career and caused a sensation with the club not only in the 1997 championship but also in the Copa Libertadores a year later. Entering the competition as an outsider, Barcelona SC eliminated Colo-Colo from Chile , Club Bolívar from Bolivia and Club Cerro Porteño from Paraguay in the knockout phase and was in the final of the most important competition for club teams in South America for the second time since 1990. There, however, they lost 4-1 on a two-way leg against the Brazilian representative CR Vasco da Gama . Antony de Ávila made it 2-1 in the 79th minute of the second leg.

In 1999 Antony de Ávila ended his footballing career with Barcelona SC Guayaquil at the age of 37. Ten years later, at the age of 47, he surprisingly returned to the football stage and made nine league games for his old club América de Cali. He managed to score two more goals, increasing his club record to 203 goals in the league.

National team

Between 1983 and 1998 Antony de Ávila made a total of 53 international matches for the Colombian national soccer team . In these games he scored thirteen. In 1990, the attacker was not considered by national coach Francisco Maturana in the South American squad for the 1994 World Cup in the USA . In the tournament, in which the Colombians went to the favorites after the performances shown in advance, de Ávila was used twice. However , he did not complete the two group games against the hosts and Switzerland over the entire season. Surprisingly, Colombia fell out of this World Cup after the preliminary round, after the games against Romania and the USA were lost and only Switzerland could be defeated, which in turn could score against Romania and the USA. As the bottom of the group, Colombia was eliminated.

Four years later, in 2014, the country qualified for the last time for a world tournament. In France , Antony de Ávila was in the late autumn of his career for a second time at a World Cup and again made two out of three possible games. In the first group game against Romania (final score: 0: 1), de Ávila played against Tunisia (final score: 1: 0) and England (final score: 0: 2). The defeat against England meant the end for Colombia at this World Cup and at the same time the last international match for Antony de Ávila.

successes

1983, 1984, 1985, 1986, 1990 and 1992 with América de Cali
1997 with Barcelona SC Guayaquil
1985 , 1986 and 1987 with América de Cali
1998 with Barcelona SC Guayaquil

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This lists all missions for América de Cali, i.e. the games between 1983 and 1987 and between 1988 and 1995 together.
  2. ↑ ipg-journal.de Sport is murder. (And money laundering, drug trafficking, and corruption.)
  3. ↑ tagesspiegel.de Anthony de Avila wants to know again when he is 46

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personal data
SURNAME Ávila, Antony de
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ávila Charry, Antony William de (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Colombian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH December 21, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH Santa Marta , Colombia