José Varacka

José Varacka
José Varacka
Personnel
birthday	May 27, 1932
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
date of death	October 22, 2018
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1952-1960	CA Independiente	202 (2)
1960-1965	River Plate	146 (1)
1966	CA San Lorenzo	17 (0)
1967	CSD Colo-Colo
1967	Miraflores
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1956-1966	Argentina	28 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1968-1971	Gimnasia LP
1972	Boca Juniors
1973-1974	Gimnasia LP
1975	Club Atlético Atlanta
1975-1977	Atlético Junior
1978-1979	Gimnasia LP
1979	Los Millonarios
1980-1981	Atlético Junior
1981-1983	Argentinos Juniors
1983	River Plate
1984	Atlético Junior
1987-1988	Atlético Junior
1 Only league games are given.

José Varacka (born May 27, 1932 in Buenos Aires , † October 22, 2018 ) was an Argentine football player and later coach.

Player career

Club career

José Varacka began his football career in 1952 with CA Independiente from Avellaneda , an industrial suburb of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. With Independiente he won while in his eight years at the club no national championship, but was part of the team of Independiente, which at a European trip, the star-studded 1954 Real Madrid to Alfredo Di Stéfano , Miguel Muñoz and Luis Molowny 6: defeated 0th After 202 league games for Independiente, in which he scored two goals, Varacka left the club in 1960 and joined River Plate , the noble club from the capital Buenos Aires. Here, too, he did not succeed in a national championship title, since in the 1960s, Varacka played for River Plate from 1960 to 1965, the dominant clubs in the Primera División were called Boca Juniors , Independiente and Racing Club Avellaneda . The best place with River Plate was a second place in the 1965 season behind big rival Boca Juniors. In the same year Varacka changed clubs again and went to CA San Lorenzo de Almagro , also from Buenos Aires. After a year there he moved to Chile to the current record champions CSD Colo-Colo from Santiago de Chile . There and with the lower class CS Miraflores in Peru , he let his career end until 1967. Then he became a football coach.

National team

In the Argentine national soccer team , José Varacka was used 28 times between 1956 and 1966. From Argentina coach Guillermo Stábile he was appointed to the South American squad for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden . In the tournament, which ended for Argentina with the disappointing end after the preliminary round, Varacka was used in all three games of his team, a goal was not scored as defender Varacka as in all of his international matches. After he was not in the Argentine squad in 1962, he experienced his second world championship with the 1966 World Cup in England . This time the Argentines, who stood out for their overly tough to brutal commitment rather than their joy in playing, reached the quarter-finals, where they failed, however, at the eventual world champions England . Varacka was not used in the tournament.

Coaching career

After the end of his active football career, José Varacka became a football coach. He trained, among other things, first Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata , then the Boca Juniors and later River Plate. In 1981 he only saved the Argentinos Juniors on the last day of the match by beating his former club CA San Lorenzo de Almagro 1-0 from relegation from the Primera División. He stayed with the club for two more years before leaving in 1983. The following year, the Argentinos Juniors became Argentine football champions for the first time. Varacka had never been able to win a title in the Primera División during his entire coaching career or during his active time, only in Colombia he won the Primera División twice . He coached Atlético Junior from Barranquilla four times in the country and won the championship with the club in 1977 and 1980. He was also the assistant coach of Vladislao Cap , who was then the coach of the Argentine national soccer team, at the 1974 World Cup in Germany , where Argentina failed in the second final round.

Web links

• José Varacka in the database of FIFA (English)
• Information about the player
• José Varacka in the database of weltfussball.de