Enrique Wolff
| Enrique Wolff | ||
 Wolff at the Racing Club
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Enrique Ernesto Wolff | |
| birthday | February 21, 1949 | |
| place of birth | Buenos Aires , Argentina | |
| size | 175 cm | |
| position | defense | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1967-1972 | Racing Club | 165 (31) |
| 1973-1974 | River Plate | 37 (6) |
| 1974-1977 | UD Las Palmas | 93 (7) |
| 1977-1979 | real Madrid | 68 (4) |
| 1979 | Argentinos Juniors | 8 (0) |
| 1981 | CA Tigre | 7 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1972-1974 | Argentina | 27 (1) |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Enrique Ernesto Wolff (born February 21, 1949 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine soccer player. In addition to stints at the Racing Club and River Plate , he was also active in Spain for Real Madrid and won the championship twice here. Wolff also took part in the 1974 World Cup in Germany with the national team of his home country .
Career
Club career
Enrique Wolff, born in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires in 1949 , began playing football at the Racing Club in Avellaneda , an industrial suburb of the capital. The defender went straight to the professional division after the greatest success in the history of the Racing Club, the victory in the Copa Libertadores 1967 . A few months later he was there when Celtic Glasgow was defeated 1-0 in the replay for the World Cup . However, 18-year-old Wolff was not used. Enrique Wolff, wearing the Racing Club jersey, was not able to win another title. He played for the club until 1972 and made a total of 165 league games with 31 goals. But it would take until 2001 before the Racing Club was able to win another Argentine championship title.
Wolff joined CA River Plate for the 1973 season . But here, too, he caught a phase in the club's history that was less successful. In 1973 and 1974 title wins were missed, only in the first year after Wolff's departure from the Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti was River Plate able to win the championship again for the first time since 1957. Enrique Wolff, however, moved to Spain in 1974 to UD Las Palmas , where he was under contract until 1977 and during this time completed 93 league games with seven goals. After relegation in the highest Spanish football league could only just be made in the first two seasons, UD Las Palmas managed a big surprise in the 1976/77 season . The team of coach Roque Olsen and players such as Miguel Brindisi , Daniel Carnevali or Carlos Morete , by the way all Argentinians, finished fourth in the Primera División after all match days and thus achieved the best placement ever in the club's history European Cup qualification.
Enrique Wolff moved into the field of vision of Real Madrid during the strong season at Las Palmas , from whom he was signed in 1977. The two years in Madrid were the most successful of his career for Wolff. They won the Spanish football championship twice in a row, in 1977/78 they finished first with six points ahead of FC Barcelona , and a year later Sporting Gijón was relegated to second place with four points. Although Enrique Wolff was an absolute regular in the Real Madrid team, he left the club in the summer of 1979. For half a year he went back to Argentina to the Argentinos Juniors , where he played alongside the young Diego Maradona . After a two-year hiatus, Wolff was again under contract for seven games with CA Tigre in 1981 before finally ending his playing career at the age of 32.
National team
Between 1972 and 1974 Enrique Wolff made a total of 27 appearances in the Argentine national soccer team . He succeeded in scoring. He was appointed to the South American squad for the 1974 World Cup in Germany by national coach Vladislao Cap . In the course of the tournament, Wolff was a regular player in five of the six games of the Argentine team and temporarily acted as captain when the actual captain Roberto Perfumo was not playing. In general, the World Cup was not very successful for the team from Argentina. After surviving the first group stage only because of the better goal difference against Italy , they failed in the second group stage with only one draw and two defeats from three games as bottom group.
successes
- World Cup : 1 ×
- 1967 with the Racing Club
- Spanish championship : 2 ×
Web links
- Enrique Wolff in the database of weltfussball.de
- Profile of the player
- Enrique Wolff in the database of FIFA (English)
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Wolff, Enrique |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Wolff, Enrique Ernesto (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | February 21, 1949 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Buenos Aires , Argentina |