Francisco Olazar

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Francisco Olazar

Francisco Olazar (born July 10, 1885 in Quilmes , Buenos Aires , † September 21, 1958 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine football player and coach . As a player he was a middle runner and won, among other things, eight Argentine championship titles with the Bonaren suburb Racing Club in its heyday at the beginning of the 20th century. As the coach of the national soccer team of Argentina , he won the Campeonato Sudamericano in 1929 and was runner-up in the first edition of a soccer world championship in 1930 .

career

Argentina at the Campeonato Sudamericano 1916. Standing: Reyes, Olazar , JD Brown, Guidi, Badaracco, P. Martínez. Front: Perinetti, Wilson, Marcovecchio, Ohaco, Heissinger

Francisco Olazar began his football career with the Racing Club from the Bonaren suburb of Avellaneda . After the end of the 1910 season, he rose with Racing for the first time in the first division of the Asociación Argentina de Football . Olazar, playing as a middle runner in the center, was the driving force and captain of the team that went down in history as La Academia . Alberto Ohaco and Juan Perinetti were other great players of the era. Francisco Olazar impressed with his technique and his clever passes. In addition, he was a pronounced header specialist who could be found time and again in the opponent's penalty area with corners. In total, he managed to score 25 header goals.

In 1913 he won the first Argentine championship with the Racing Club. Racing was to defend this until 1919. Racing, which succeeded the supremacy in Argentine football from Alumni AC , which was dissolved in 1913 , achieved a record with these seven titles in a row that has remained unique since then. In 1921 the Racing Club won the championship again. In 1913 from 1918 Racing also won the Copa Dr. Carlos Ibarguren , contested by the champions of the country's regional leagues. It wasn't until the 1950s that racing would again become a dominant force in Argentine football.

Francisco Olazar would also have a dominant role in the Argentine national teams, who finished second behind Uruguay in the first two playouts of the Copa America in 1916 and 1917 . Overall, he appeared on the pitch 18 times for Argentina and scored one goal.

Argentina winner of the Campeonato Sudamericano 1929 Back: Francisco Olazar , Juan Evaristo, Angel Bossio, Oscar Tarrio, Adolfo Zumelzu, Fernando Paternoster and Rodolfo Orlandini, JJ Tramutola. Front: Carlos Peucelle, Antonio Rivarola, Manuel Ferreira, Manuel Seoane and Mario Evaristo.

In recognition of his performance as a player, he was appointed coach of the national team in September 1929. He formed a coaching team with Juan José Tramutola , whose official title was Technical Director, at the Copa America held in Buenos Aires in November .

After this success, the duo stayed in office at the first soccer World Cup, which took place in the Uruguayan capital of Montevideo in 1930 . Argentina stormed into the final with four wins and scored 16 goals. In the final, however, Argentina lost 4-2 after a 2-1 lead at halftime in front of 80,000 spectators at the Estadio Centenario , but could claim the honor of being the most accurate team in the tournament. The star of Argentina this time was Guillermo Stábile , who became the first top scorer in World Cup history with his eight goals. The coaching team was replaced after the World Cup.

It should be noted that the role of coach of the Argentina national team was not yet of outstanding importance. The teams were primarily selected and set up by the association's management and leading players.

Francisco Olazar died in Buenos Aires in 1958 at the age of 73.

statistics

Player:

  • Masters of Argentina: 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918, 1919, 1921
  • Copa Dr. Carlos Ibargurs : 1913, 1914, 1915, 1916, 1917, 1918

Trainer:

Web links

Commons : Francisco Olazar  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ La Prensa (Buenos Aires, July 21, 2002): "La belleza sólo era americana"
personal data
SURNAME Olazar, Francisco
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1885
PLACE OF BIRTH Quilmes , Buenos Aires
DATE OF DEATH September 21, 1958
Place of death Buenos Aires