Juan Barbas

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Juan Barbas
Personnel
Surname Juan Alberto Barbas
birthday 23rd August 1959
place of birth San Martín ,  Argentina
position midfield player
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1977-1982 Racing Club 132 (14)
1982-1985 Real Zaragoza 91 (19)
1985-1990 US Lecce 149 (27)
1990-1991 FC Locarno
1991-1992 FC Sion 11 0(0)
1992-1993 FC Locarno
1993 CA Huracan 9 0(0)
1993-1994 CA Alvarado
1994-1997 All boys
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1979-1985 Argentina 33 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2009-2010 Racing Club
1 Only league games are given.

Juan Alberto Barbas (born August 23, 1959 in San Martín ) is a former Argentine football player. He took part in the 1982 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Juan Barbas, born on August 23, 1959 in San Martín , a city in the greater Buenos Aires area , began his football career in 1977 at the Racing Club from Avellaneda , an industrial suburb of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. For the Racing Club, he played 132 games in the Primera División in six years , in which he scored fourteen goals. In 1982 he moved to Spain and joined Real Saragossa . Barbas achieved the best placement in the league with Saragossa in his first season with the club when they finished sixth. In total, Juan Barbas played 91 league games for Real Saragossa and scored 19 goals. In 1985 he left the club and joined the southern Italian club US Lecce . In Lecce he played five years in the lower table area of Serie A football until 1990 before moving to FC Sion in Switzerland . There he won his first and only national championship when he won the Swiss Football Championship 1990/91 with FC Sion by taking first place three points ahead of Grasshopper Zurich . After the successful season he moved within Switzerland to FC Locarno , which had just been promoted to the National League. However, it was immediately relegated and Barbas went back to Argentina, where he let his career end with the clubs CA Huracán , CA Alvarado and All Boys . In 1997, Juan Barbas ended his footballing career at the age of 38. After a few years he was presented in 2009 as the successor to Ricardo Caruso Lombardi as coach of the Racing Club. In 2010 he was released and replaced by Miguel Ángel Russo .

National team

Between 1979 and 1985, Juan Barbas was featured on the Argentina national football team 33 times . He took part in the 1982 World Cup in Spain, where the Argentinians who started as defending champions failed in the second round. At the World Cup, Barbas was mostly a reserve player, he was used in only two games of his team. In the preliminary round match against Hungary (4: 1), national coach César Luis Menotti changed him in the 51st minute of the game for Alberto Tarantini , in the final round match against Brazil (1: 3) he was one of the first menottis.

At the junior soccer world championship in 1979 , in which he participated with Argentina, the Argentine team won 3-1 against the Soviet Union around later world-class players such as Diego Maradona , Gabriel Calderón and Ramón Díaz in front of 52,000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo, and became junior world champions for the first time.

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personal data
SURNAME Barbas, Juan
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Barbas, Juan Alberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH 23rd August 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH San Martín