Francisco Sá

Francisco Sá
Personnel
Surname	Francisco Pedro Manuel Sá
birthday	October 25, 1945
place of birth	Las Lomitas,  Argentina
position	defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1965-1966	Central Goya
1968	Huracan Corrientes	12 (0)
1969-1970	River Plate	2 (0)
1971-1975	CA Independiente	180 (6)
1976-1981	Boca Juniors	166 (1)
1982	Gimnasia Jujuy	1 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1973-1974	Argentina	15 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Francisco Pedro Manuel Sá (born October 25, 1945 in Las Lomitas, Argentina ) is a retired Argentine football player. Very successful at club level with Independiente Avellaneda and the Boca Juniors , he also took part in the 1974 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Francisco Sá played the first years of his football career for small clubs in the northern Argentine province of Formosa, where he was born in 1945. As a player for the local club Huracán Corrientes, he aroused the interest of talent scouts from CA River Plate , the most successful Argentine football club ever, where he signed a contract in 1969. At River Plate, however, Francisco Sá could not prevail and came in two years on only two appearances in the professional team of River.

From 1971 Francisco Sá played in the episode for CA Independiente . At the club from the Bonaren suburb of Avellaneda, the defender played a decisive role in the most successful phase in the club's history. Between 1972 and 1975 they won the Copa Libertadores , the most important football competition for club teams in South America , four times in a row . In 1973 they also won the World Cup. The basis for these successes at international level was the victory in the Primera División in 1971 , which was Francisco Sá's first title win in the CA Independiente jersey. In total, the defender came to 180 league games for the club, in which he scored six goals. During this time, Francisco Sá won six important titles with Independiente. In 1975 he left the club after five extremely successful years and joined the Boca Juniors .

In the Bombonera Stadium Francisco Sá was also successful. Under coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo , the Copa Libertadores were won twice in a row in 1977 and 1978, which means that Sá now has six wins in this competition, something that no other player has achieved to this day. In 1977 one could also win the World Cup through a success over the German club Borussia Mönchengladbach . Francisco Sá also succeeded with the Boca Juniors, where he played in a team with other greats of Argentine football of the time such as Roberto Mouzo , Rubén Suñé or Hugo Gatti , in 1976 and 1981 twice winning the Metropolitano competition of the Argentine football championship. In 1980 he was tested positive for ephedrine during a doping control and was banned for three months. In the year of his last title win, 1981, Sá had already lost his regular place and left the club after the end of the season. For a year he moved to CA Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy , where he played one more game and ended his football career in 1982 at the age of 37.

National team

Between 1973 and 1974 Francisco Sá came to fifteen international matches in the Argentine national football team . However, he did not succeed 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, Sá acted in the defense of the Argentine team, which competed with players such as Mario Kempes , René Houseman or Ubaldo Fillol , as an absolute regular player and made five out of six games. In the second game of the second round, however, he was injured and had to be replaced. As a result of this injury, Sá also missed the last intermediate round match against the GDR . The elimination of Argentina was certain before the final game.

successes

• Copa Libertadores (6):

1972 , 1973 , 1974 , 1975 with CA Independiente

1977 , 1978 with the Boca Juniors

• World Cup (2):

1973 with CA Independiente

1977 with the Boca Juniors

• Argentine Championship (4):

Metropolitano 1971 with CA Independiente

Metropolitano 1976 , Nacional 1977 , Metropolitano 1981 with the Boca Juniors

Web links

• Data about the player
• Francisco Sá in the database of FIFA (English)
• Information about the player

Individual evidence

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