Rafael Albrecht

José Albrecht
José Albrecht (1968)
Personnel
Surname	José Rafael Albrecht
birthday	August 23, 1941
place of birth	San Miguel de Tucuman ,  Argentina
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1960–1962	Estudiantes de La Plata	70 0(0)
1963-1970	CA San Lorenzo	229 (56)
1971-1974	Club León	145 (36)
1974-1975	Atlas Guadalajara	62 0(3)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1961-1969	Argentina	39 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

José Rafael Albrecht (born August 23, 1941 in San Miguel de Tucumán ) is a former Argentine soccer player who took part in the 1962 and 1966 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

José Albrecht, born in 1941 in San Miguel de Tucumán, the capital of the Argentine province of Tucumán , began his football career in 1960 with Estudiantes de La Plata . He played for two years at the provincial club, which was not very successful in the early 1960s, before moving to CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires after seventy games and no goal for the later four-time winner of the Copa Libertadores . At San Lorenzo he spent most of his career and made 229 league games for the club from the Almagro district . With CA San Lorenzo de Almagro, where he played with other Argentine football greats of the time such as Roberto Telch , Rubén Ayala or Rodolfo Fischer , Albrecht won the Argentine football championship in 1968 after the final at the Campionato Metropolitano Estudiantes de La Plata was defeated with 2: 1. With this championship win CA San Lorenzo de Almagro managed not to lose a single league game. The championship of 1968 remained the only one for José Albrecht, he left San Lorenzo two years later after 229 games and 56 goals, a considerable quota for a defender, the club and joined the Club León from Mexico . With the club from León , he won the Copa Mexico twice in 1971 and 1972 and the Mexican Supercup in 1971. He played a total of 293 games in the Mexican league for the club, for which he was active from 1970 to 1974. In the last year Albrecht went to Atlas Guadalajara , where he let his career end from 1974 to 1975.

Throughout his career, José Albrecht made 506 league appearances in Argentina and Mexico and scored 95 goals, earning him seventh place on the list of most dangerous defenders, led by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics .

National team

José Albrecht was used 39 times in the Argentine national football team between 1961 and 1969. He scored three goals. From national coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo he was appointed to the squad of the Argentines for the 1962 World Cup in Chile . However, he was not used in the finals, while the Argentine team failed after the preliminary round. Four years later he was again in the squad for a soccer World Cup and this time José Albrecht was also a regular player. He was used by Lorenzo in the first two group matches against Spain (2-1) and Germany (0-0). The third group match against Switzerland he missed only because of a received in the match against Germany sending off . After the suspension he was eligible to play again for the quarter-finals against hosts England and made, due to the elimination of his team after the 0-1, his last World Cup game on July 23, 1966 in Villa Park in Birmingham . A third world championship participation Albrecht did not reach because Argentina could not qualify for the world tournament in Mexico 1970 . He also ended his national team career in 1969.

successes

• Argentine Championship : 1 ×

Metropolitano 1968 with CA San Lorenzo

Individual evidence

1. ^ Benjamin Knaack: The big World Cup duels with Argentina: When the tunnels bored into Wolfgang Weber's thigh. in: Spiegel Online . July 11, 2014.

Web links

• José Albrecht in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Rafael Albrecht in the database of FIFA (English)