José María Minella

José María Minella
Minella 1941
Personnel
birthday	June 8, 1909
place of birth	Mar del Plata ,  Argentina
date of death	August 13, 1981
Place of death	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1929-1934	Gimnasia y Esgrima LP	132 (9)
1935-1941	River Plate	157 (5)
1942-1943	Club Atlético Peñarol
1944	CD Green Cross
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1933-1941	Argentina	24 (1)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1945-1959	River Plate
1963	River Plate
1964-1965	Argentina
1966	America de Cali
1968	Argentina
1 Only league games are given.

José María Minella (born June 8, 1909 in Mar del Plata , † August 13, 1981 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine football player and later coach, who celebrated many successes with River Plate and was also active in the national team of his home country .

The occasion in Argentina held 1978 FIFA World Cup built stadium in Mar del Plata, the Estadio Jose Maria Minella with a capacity of today 35,354 spectators, was ever produced in honor of probably the best footballer, the Mar del Plata, in his own lifetime by José María Minella with his name.

Player career

Club career

José María Minella, born on June 8, 1909 in Mar del Plata , began playing football at Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata in the capital of the province of Buenos Aires of the same name . For Gimnasia y Esgrima he played, among other things, the first season of the Argentine Primera División , in 1931 the twelfth place was occupied. Then Minella played three more seasons in midfield of Gimnasia y Esgrima, the best placement was a fourth place in 1933 . For the 1935 season , José María Minella signed a contract with the Bonaren top club River Plate . He remained loyal to the current record champions for the following seven years and came to 157 games in the league during this time, scoring five goals. José María Minella won three times with River Plate, where he played with Argentine football greats of the time such as Ángel Labruna , Juan Carlos Muñoz , Adolfo Pedernera and Carlos Peucelle , the Argentine championship. In the 1936 season the championship was won for the first time, in the final, River Plate defeated CA San Lorenzo de Almagro 4-2. In the following year, the title was defended by a first place six points ahead of CA Independiente . In the following years it was not until 1941 before Minella and River Plate won another title. That year they finished first in the Primera División, four points ahead of San Lorenzo de Almagro.

José María Minella was on the ball for River Plate until 1942 before he left the club and joined Peñarol from Uruguay's capital Montevideo . After a year with today's Uruguayan record champions, Minella changed employers again and played for CD Green Cross in the Chilean capital Santiago for a short time . In 1944, José María Minella ended his active career at the age of 35.

National team

Between 1933 and 1941 José María Minella made 24 international matches in the Argentine national football team . With her he won the Copa America twice , then still known as Campeonato Sudamericano . At the tournament in front of a home crowd in 1937 Minella was victorious for the first time in the South American Championship. In the tournament, which was played exclusively in the Estadio Gasómetro , the home stadium of San Lorenzo de Almagro, the Argentine team won the final 2-0 after extra time against Brazil . At the Copa America after that, which was in Chile in 1941, Minella won this title for the second time. This time the gauchos finished first after all match days of the group stage with two points ahead of Uruguay , winning every game.

Coaching career

After the end of his active football career, José María Minella became a coach. In 1945 he took over the coaching position of his old club River Plate and held this for the next fifteen years. During this time River Plate had one of its most successful phases ever in the club's history. With the legendary Maquina (in German machine ) around players like Juan Carlos Muñoz, José Manuel Moreno Fernández , Adolfo Pedernera, Ángel Labruna and Félix Loustau , River dominated the Argentine football of his time and won the Argentine championship seven times between 1945 and 1957, with in this time the championship was only available thirteen times. With the 2-3-5 system practiced by coach José María Minella with the storm series Muñoz, Moreno, Pedernera, Labruna and Loustau, River Plate also usually provided the best offensive of the Argentine Primera División. But over the years the Maquina players got older and so the dominance of River Plate was coming to an end for the time being. After the departure of Ángel Labruna in 1959, the last Maquina player was no longer under contract with River and José María Minella's time as River Plate coach ended that year.

Four years later, José María Minella returned to the River Plate dugout after Néstor Rossi was sacked. Minella's renewed engagement lasted only for a short time, he was replaced only a short time later. In 1964, Minella took over the post of Argentine national coach, initially until 1965 and then again for a short time in 1968, before he was replaced by Renato Cesarini , who was already very successful with River Plate and was once coach of Minella more than twenty-five years ago . Thereafter, José María Minella took no further coaching posts.

successes

As a player

• Argentine Championship : 3 × ( 1936 , 1937 , 1941 )

• Copa América : 2 × ( 1937 , 1941 )

• Copa Ibargurs : 2 × (1937, 1941)

• Copa de Oro : 1 × (1936)

• Copa Adrían Escobar : 1 × (1941)

As a trainer

• Argentine Championship : 7 × ( 1945 , 1947 , 1952 , 1953 , 1955 , 1956 , 1957 )

Web links

• José María Minella in the database of weltfussball.de
• Statistics of the player
• Information about the player