Juan Simón

This article is about the soccer player Juan Simón. For the film director, see Juan Piquer Simón .

Juan Simón
Personnel
Surname	Juan Ernesto Simón
birthday	March 2, 1960
place of birth	Rosario ,  Argentina
size	180 cm
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1977-1983	Newell's Old Boys	211 (1)
1983-1986	AS Monaco	73 (0)
1986-1988	Racing Strasbourg	47 (2)
1988-1994	Boca Juniors	168 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1979	Argentina U-20	11 (1)
1980-1990	Argentina	13 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Juan Ernesto Simón (born March 2, 1960 in Rosario ) is a former Argentine soccer player who was also active in France and became vice world champion in 1990 with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Juan Simón began playing football with Newell's Old Boys in his hometown of Rosario . At the club, Simón, who played in the position of a defender, worked for seven years until 1983. With the Newell's Old Boys, where he played with other Argentinian football greats of the time such as Sergio Omar Almirón , Santiago Santamaría or Américo Gallego , Simón did not win a championship title despite the good team at the time. In 1983 he left his home club after 211 league games and one goal and went to France for AS Monaco . Here, too, no great successes were achieved, only the victory in the French Cup in the 1984/85 season , when Paris Saint-Germain was defeated in the final , is worth mentioning. In total, Juan Simón made 73 games for the Monegasque before moving to Racing Strasbourg in 1987 . Here he was able to prevail and came to a total of fifty-nine missions and two goals within two years. Nevertheless, Juan Simón left Strasbourg in 1988. He has now returned to Argentina and signed a contract with Boca Juniors , with whom he was finally really successful. In 1989 they won both the Recopa Sudamericana and the Supercopa Sudamericana , in 1992 the Copa Master de Supercopa and in 1993 the Copa de Oro Nicolás Leoz . In addition, Simón was also successful in the league with the Boca Juniors. In the Apertura 1992 you won the Argentine championship by a first place in the table with four points ahead of CA River Plate . In the following Clausura they only ended up in seventh place, while CA Vélez Sársfield was champion. In the next few years there was no further championship title for Juan Simón with the Boca Juniors. He retired in 1994 at the age of 34 after playing 168 league games in seven years for Boca Juniors, albeit without a single goal scoring.

National team

Juan Simón's national team career began in the junior area. He was part of the Argentine team, which knew how to convince at the Junior Soccer World Cup in 1979 and there. Under the leadership of coaching legend César Luis Menotti and with later world stars like Diego Maradona , Ramón Díaz or Gabriel Calderón in the team, the Argentine selection reached the final, where they met the Soviet Union in the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo . In front of 52,000 spectators Argentina turned the interim deficit by three goals and secured the junior world championship with a 3-1 victory. Juan Simón was used in every tournament game, he even scored a goal. In total, he played eleven times for Argentina's junior selection team.

In the first year after the Junior World Championship, Juan Simón saw his first appearance in the real national team. He was unable to convince Menotti and was not nominated for the 1982 World Cup in Spain . After Menotti's resignation after the World Cup, Simón initially received little attention from his successor Carlos Bilardo , and he also missed the 1986 World Cup in Mexico , where Argentina became world champions for the second time. It wasn't until four years later, at the 1990 World Championships in Italy , that he was in the Argentine squad . As a regular player with a playing time of more than ninety minutes in every tournament game, he was an integral part of the Argentine team that met Germany on July 8, 1990 in the new edition of the 1986 final . In contrast to 1986, Argentina was the defeated team this time, Germany won 1-0 with a penalty goal from Andreas Brehme in the 85th minute and became world champions for the third time.

successes

• Junior World Champion : 1 × ( 1979 )

• Argentine Championship : 1 × ( Apertura 1992 )

• Recopa Sudamericana : 1 × (1989)

• Supercopa Sudamericana : 1 × (1989)

• Vice world champion

1990 with Argentina

• Copa Master de Supercopa : 1 × (1992)

• Copa de Oro Nicolás Leoz : 1 × (1993)

• French Cup : 1 × ( 1985 )

Individual evidence

1. ↑ http://www.racingstub.com/fiche/pe/219-juan-ernesto-simon Article on racingstub.com (French)

Web links

• Juan Simón in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile of the player
• Information about the player