Carlos Tapia

Carlos Tapia
Personnel
Surname	Carlos Daniel Tapia
birthday	20th August 1962
place of birth	San Miguel ,  Argentina
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1980-1984	River Plate	105 (14)
1985-1987	Boca Juniors	77 (35)
1987-1988	Stade Brest	15 0(1)
1988-1989	Boca Juniors	10 0(5)
1989-1990	Textile Mandiyú	16 0(0)
1990-1991	Boca Juniors	33 0(2)
1991-1992	AC Lugano	12 0(0)
1992	Universidad de Chile	8 0(3)
1992-1994	Boca Juniors	28 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1980-1988	Argentina	10 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Carlos Daniel Tapia (born August 20, 1962 in San Miguel ) is a former Argentine soccer player who won the 1986 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Carlos Tapia began his football career in 1980 with CA River Plate . After playing for about a year in the reserve, called him Rivers coach Alfredo Di Stefano , who played even with the club before moving to Spain went and with the White Ballet of Real Madrid numerous successes celebrated, for the first time in the first team after Norberto Alonso , previously placed in Tapias position, left the club for CA Vélez Sársfield . In the jersey of River Plate Tapia made 105 games in the Primera División until 1984 , scoring fourteen goals. In 1984 Tapia went to France to Stade Brest . After a year with the first division club from the north of France, where at that time another Argentinian national player was kicking José Luis Brown , he moved back to Argentina in 1985 to join the biggest rival of his old club River Plate, the Boca Juniors . In two years he completed 77 league games for the club from the working class La Boca and scored 35 goals. In total, he played 189 league games for the Boca Juniors during his career and scored 46 goals in these games. In the meantime he worked for a year on loan for other clubs, including playing for AC Lugano in Switzerland and CF Universidad de Chile , before returning to the Boca Juniors after a year in Buenos Aires . In 1992 he won his second Argentine championship with Boca, his first he won in 1980 with River Plate, although he was not a regular then as in 1992. In 1993, Nicolás Leoz also won the Copa de Oro .

National team

Carlos Tapia has made nine international matches in the Argentine national football team . By Carlos Bilardo , the football coach of Argentina, he was taken to the squad for the 1986 FIFA World Cup in Mexico called. In the tournament, he was only a substitute twice in the first group match against South Korea (3: 1) he came in 73 minutes for Pedro Pasculli , the legendary quarter-final match against England (2: 1), when Diego Maradona with the hand of God the one : 0 and marked the 2-0 with the goal of the century , in the 75th minute for José Luis Brown. After the quarter-finals he was no longer used. His team, however, reached the final and won it 3-2 against Germany in the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City . In addition to the 1986 World Cup, Carlos Tapia played with the Argentine national team at the 1987 Copa America in his own country, where Argentina finished fourth. His time in the national team ended after the South American Championship after only one year and nine missions in which he scored a goal.

Web links

• Carlos Tapia in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Information about the player
• Information about the player