Federico Sacchi

Federico Sacchi
Federico Sacchi in the Newell's Old Boys jersey
Personnel
birthday	September 4, 1936
place of birth	Rosario ,  Argentina
position	midfield player
Juniors
Years	station
	Tiro Federal
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958-1960	Newell's Old Boys	60 0(7)
1961-1964	Racing Club	88 (12)
1965-1966	Boca Juniors	24 0(1)
1967	Sporting Cristal
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1960-1965	Argentina	15 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Federico Sacchi (born September 4, 1936 in Rosario , Santa Fe Province ) is a former Argentine football player and later coach . As an active player, he took part in the 1962 World Cup in Chile and was active at club level for the Newell's Old Boys , the Racing Club , the Boca Juniors and Sporting Cristal . Later he was a brief coach of the Argentine national soccer team .

Career

Club career

Federico Sacchi began playing football with the CA Tiro Federal club in his hometown of Rosario , the largest city in the province of Santa Fe , where Sacchi was born on September 4th, 1936. After a few years in the youth department of Tiro Federal, he signed a professional contract in 1958 with the Newell's Old Boys , who were also based in Rosario. For the club Federico Sacchi made sixty league games from 1958 to 1960 as part of the Primera División , the top division in Argentine football, and scored seven goals.

For the 1961 season he moved to the Racing Club in Avellaneda , an industrial suburb of the Argentine capital Buenos Aires . Sacchi had a very successful time at the Racing Club and played together with players such as Omar Corbatta , Rubén Héctor Sosa and Raúl Belén . In the 1961 season, in Sacchi's first season at the Estadio Presidente Perón , he won the Argentine championship with the Racing Club when a first place in the Primera División was occupied by seven points over CA San Lorenzo de Almagro . This was the only championship title for Federico Sacchi in the Racing Club jersey. He played for the club until 1964 and had a total of 88 games with twelve goals.

In 1964 Federico Sacchi left Avellaneda and joined the Boca Juniors , where he was again Argentinian champion immediately in his first season. The team around players such as Alfredo Rojas , Antonio Rattín , Carmelo Simeone and Silvio Marzolini took first place in the championship with one point ahead of eternal rivals CA River Plate and was able to defend the title win from the previous year. The Boca Juniors did not succeed in this feat the following year and the Racing Club had to be given priority. Federico Sacchi acted up to and including the 1966 season in midfield of the Boca Juniors. He completed 24 league games with one goal in the two years of his activity in La Boca and was not always part of the regular formation. After his departure from Boca Juniors, he let his career end in 1967 in Peru with Sporting Cristal .

National team

Between 1960 and 1965 Federico Sacchi brought it to fifteen international matches in the Argentine national football team , where he succeeded in scoring. Argentina coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo appointed him to the South American squad for the 1962 World Cup in Chile . In the course of the tournament Sacchi was used in all three games of the Argentine team, he did not score a goal. After only three points from three games (a win, a draw and a defeat), the Argentine team dropped out of the 1962 World Championships after the preliminary round. For Federico Sacchi it was this one World Cup participation, he ended his national team career in the year before the Soccer World Cup in England in 1966 after he had previously made fifteen international matches.

After the end of his active football career, Federico Sacchi worked for a long time as an assistant to César Luis Menotti . In 1979, when Menotti could not function as national coach for a short time as part of the Junior World Cup in Japan , Sacchi took over his duties as interim coach, only to hand them back to El Flaco at the end of the Junior World Cup .

In addition to his work as assistant to César Luis Menotti, Sacchi was also the coach of various smaller clubs in Argentina, including CA Tigre and CA San Martín de Tucumán . Sacchi also coached the youth teams of the Racing Club and Atlético de Rafaela .

Web links

• Federico Sacchi in the database of weltfussball.de
• Player biography
• Information about the player