José Luis Brown

José Luis Brown
Brown, 1986 Final
Personnel
birthday	November 11, 1956
place of birth	Ranchos ,  Argentina
date of death	August 12, 2019
Place of death	La Plata ,  Argentina
size	183 cm
position	Central defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1975-1983	Estudiantes de La Plata	291 (25)
1983-1984	Atlético Nacional
1985	Boca Juniors	9 0(4)
1985	Deportivo Español	5 0(0)
1986-1987	Stade Brest	31 0(1)
1987-1989	Real Murcia	28 0(1)
1989-1990	Racing Club	10 0(1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1983-1989	Argentina	36 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

José Luis Brown (born November 11, 1956 in Ranchos , Buenos Aires Province , † August 12, 2019 in La Plata ) was an Argentine football player . The defender became soccer world champion in 1986.

Player career

Club career

José Luis Brown, born in 1956 in Ranchos, a city in the province of Buenos Aires , began his football career in 1975 at Estudiantes de La Plata . In the three-time winner of the Copa Libertadores , he played together with other Argentinian football greats of the time such as Rubén Pagnanini , world champion from 1978 , Carlos Bilardo , the later national coach of Argentina, or Christian Rudzki . After a few years without winning the title, Estudiantes was able to sign many good Argentine players through the expensive sale of Patricio Hernández to Torino Calcio in Italy and in 1982 win the championship in Argentina again for the first time in fifteen years . In the Primera División a first place in the Metropolitano was taken with two points ahead of CA Independiente . The following year, José Luis Brown was again successful with Estudiantes and they became champions again by beating Independiente in the final in the Nacional. In 1984 Brown left Estudiantes de La Plata and went to the Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires , where he was only active for one year and played 29 games for the traditional club from the working-class district of La Boca .

After brief visits to the lower-class club Deportivo Español and the Colombian first division club Atlético Nacional from Medellín , Brown made the leap to Europe in 1986 when he was signed by the French first division club Stade Brest . In Division 1 , José Luis Brown developed into a regular player and made 31 games and one goal for the club from northern France in the 1986/87 season . In 1987 he moved to Spain to Real Murcia , which was playing first class at the time. In the Primera División Spain he contributed with 28 appearances and one goal to achieve relegation. After a season at Real Murcia, he went back to Argentina and ended his football career at the Racing Club in Avellaneda . In 1989 he ended his career at the age of 33.

National team

José Luis Brown played 36 international matches for the Argentina national football team . He took part in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico , where the Argentine team was coached by Brown's former team-mate from Estudiantes de La Plata, Carlos Bilardo. Brown had just recovered from meniscus problems and healed a torn cruciate ligament. At the tournament he was only intended as a substitute for Daniel Passarella , moved to the team after his injury and was used in all seven games, he played six games over the entire season. Only in the quarter-final game against England , which was shaped by Maradona's hand of God and the goal of the century, also scored by the world's best footballer at the time, Carlos Tapia replaced him in the 75th minute of the game . In the final against the German team , José Luis Brown scored his only international goal when he headed the 1-0 in the 23rd minute of the game. With goals from Jorge Valdano and Jorge Burruchaga and, on the German side, from Karl-Heinz Rummenigge and Rudi Völler , Argentina won the final in Azteca 3-2 and became world champions for the second time.

Coaching career

After the end of his active career, José Luis Brown became a football coach, he only came to a position as head coach of a professional club for a short time. However, he was assistant to Óscar Ruggeri at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro , Carlos Bilardo at Boca Juniors and Héctor Enrique at Club Almagro . In 1993 he was hired by the Bolivian first division club Blooming as head coach, but coached the team for only sixteen games and then worked again with Bilardo at Estudiantes de La Plata. After Bilardo left, Brown coached the second division Atlético de Rafaela . After differences with the club board, he went back to Club Almagro in 2005, which had just been relegated from the Primera División. Shortly afterwards he became coach of the traditional Ferro Carril Oeste club , where he only worked for a month. In 2007, José Luis Brown and his former teammate from the 1986 world championship team, Sergio Batista , first coached the U17 national soccer team of Argentina and then the country's U20. In 2008 he won the gold medal at the Beijing Olympics as Batista's assistant .

successes

Argentina national team

• Soccer world champion 1986

Estudiantes de La Plata

• Metropolitano Championship: 1982
• National championship: 1983

Web links

• José Luis Brown in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• José Luis Brown in the database of FIFA (English)
• Information about the player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Jose Luis Brown: 1986 World Champion dies at the age of 62. In: t-online.de. August 13, 2019, accessed August 13, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Süddeutsche Zeitung of July 12, 2014 p. 38