Mario Kempes

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Mario Kempes
Personnel
Surname Mario Alberto Kempes
birthday July 15, 1954
place of birth Bell Ville ,  Argentina
size 182 cm
position Storm
Juniors
Years station
1963-1969 Tallares Bell Ville
1969-1971 Atlético Bibliteca
1971-1973 Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1973-1974 Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba 13 (11)
1974-1976 Rosario Central 107 (86)
1976-1981 Valencia CF 143 (95)
1981-1982 River Plate 29 (15)
1982-1984 Valencia CF 42 (21)
1984-1986 Hércules Alicante 38 (10)
1986-1987 First Vienna FC 1894 20 0(7)
1987-1990 VSE St. Pölten 96 (34)
1990-1992 Kremser SC 39 0(7)
1995 Fernandez Vial 11 0(5)
1996 Pelita Jaya
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1973-1982 Argentina 43 (20)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1996 Pelita Jaya
1996 KS Lushnja
1997-1998 Mineros de Guiana
1999 The Strongest
2000 Club blooming
2000-2001 Independiente Petrolero
1 Only league games are given.

Mario Alberto Kempes (born July 15, 1954 in Bell Ville , Province of Córdoba , Argentina ) is a former Argentinian football player and current coach . One of his greatest successes was winning the 1978 Argentina World Cup , where he was the top scorer with six goals .

During his active career, Kempes was called "El Matador" (The Executor).

Player career

In the club

Kempes' father, a good amateur footballer himself at a young age, brought Mario to football at the age of nine and signed him up for the Tallares Bell Ville children's team . He later moved to Atlético Bibliteca , where his talent quickly showed. As a 16-year-old, he led his team to the regional championship as the best striker. With his achievements, the youth striker drew the attention of numerous Argentine first division clubs . In 1971 Instituto Atlético Central Córdoba was awarded the contract. On October 5, 1973, Kempes made his debut at the age of 19 in the league game against Newell's Old Boys in the professional team (0: 1). Shortly after this debut, the French first division team OGC Nice made an offer and wanted to sign Kempes, who turned down the offer and joined the reigning champions Rosario Central for a fee of 50,000  DM in January 1974 . At Rosario, Kempes developed into one of the best attackers in the country. The strengths of the powerful left-footer included goal ability and assertiveness, whereby his athleticism benefited him. However, he not only waited for usable templates, but also dodged midfield or the wing positions in order to look for opportunities. His long black hair became his trademark. As the striker leader of Rosario Central, he secured the top scorer cannon of the Primera Division (Argentina) in 1976 with 40 hits.

In 1976, Kempes wanted to leave Argentina for Spain . An attractive offer from Valencia CF , which offered him an annual salary of DM 100,000, and the political turmoil in his home country prompted him to push through the change against the will of the club's top management. After a threat to end his career and a member vote, in which 40,000 club members approved the transfer, he was finally let go. Valencia had to transfer around one million DM to Rosario's account. He left Central as the best goalscorer of all time: in two seasons he had scored 100 competitive goals.

In Valencia, Kempes secured the Pichichi trophy in his first season with 24 goals . The following year he defended the title with 28 goals and scored the highest number of hits in the Primera División for over twenty years. It didn't take long before the fans at the Estadio Mestalla hailed him as a crowd-pleaser. It should be his most successful time in club football: In 1978 and 1979 he won the cup . More titles followed in 1980, this time internationally with winning the European Cup Winners' Cup (victory over Arsenal FC ), with Kempes being the top scorer of the entire competition with nine goals. The year was crowned with victory in the European Supercup . At Valencia he played together with the German national player Rainer Bonhof .

In 1981 Kempes' performances at Valencia waned and so he was loaned out to CA River Plate from Buenos Aires for a year to preserve his chances of being nominated for the 1982 World Cup . With River Plate, he won his first Argentine championship in 1981 before returning to Spain. After two more seasons with Valencia, he left the club for good and moved to the small first division club Hércules Alicante . In early 1986 he accepted a lucrative offer from the Vienna club First Vienna FC 1894 . In Austria he played for a number of smaller clubs, left the Alpine republic in 1992 and ended his career at the age of 38.

In the national team

Kempes (1978)

In 1973, the 19-year-old Kempes made his debut in the national team in the qualifying game for the 1974 World Cup in Bolivia (1-0 victory). The press gave this Argentine national team the name "ghost team" because the then coach Omar Sívorii had a large number of unknown players had nominated to give his squad more time to get used to the mountain air of La Paz .

In 1974 he was nominated for the Argentine squad for the 1974 World Cup in Germany, making him the youngest player in the squad. The World Cup was mixed for Argentina. Although they left Italy behind in the preliminary round, the second round was the final destination, losing 4-0 to the Dutch team driven by Johan Cruyff . Kempes failed to prove his qualities - although he was in the starting line-up in five out of six games, he did not score a goal.

Four years later, Argentina hosted the World Cup, which is why people had high expectations of the team. At a time when his country was ruled by a military dictatorship, Kempes was one of two players from foreign clubs that national coach César Luis Menotti appointed to the squad and, due to his performance at Valencia CF, the great hope. Argentina's first round victories over Hungary and France secured the team a place in the second round (although they lost 1-0 to Italy). Up to this point, Kempes had not met the expectations placed in him - he had not scored a single goal. But in the second round he should rise to the lead alongside captain Daniel Passarella . He scored twice against Poland and Peru . After a draw against Brazil , the team reached the final and met the Netherlands there. Kempes scored two goals for his team, the first in the 38th minute and the second after a solo run in the 105th minute (extra time) - the decisive goal to make it 2-1. Argentina was world champion for the first time and Kempes was the tournament's top scorer with six goals (first Argentine since Guillermo Stábile , 1930 ) and he was voted best player of the tournament. He had been voted "Most Sex Appeal Player" during the finals, but he had also impressed with his footballing skills. In 1978 he was named South America's Footballer of the Year .

In 1982 he took part in his third and last World Cup in Spain, the country where he had celebrated numerous successes with Valencia CF. Argentina drove to Spain with many world champions from 1978 and was one of the favorites for the title with the new superstar Diego Maradona (to whom Kempes had given the shirt with the number 10). But the team failed to repeat their success and Argentina was eliminated from the tournament. In the second round match against Brazil, Kempes was substituted at half time. It was the last of his 43 international matches in which he scored a total of 20 goals.

Kempes never received a yellow or red card during his international career.

Coaching career

After retiring from active football, he was honored by the government of the province of Mendoza for his services to the sport before he returned to Valencia in 1993 and worked as an assistant to coach Héctor Nunez . In 1995 he had a brief comeback in Chilean club football before he accepted a position as player-coach with the Indonesian football champion Pelita Jaya . In the following years, Kempes worked as a coach for various clubs around the world. In 1999 Kempes won his first championship title as a coach with the Bolivian club The Strongest ; then he moved to another Bolivian club, Independiente Petrolero .

successes

society

National team

  • 1978 world champion

Trainer

  • 1999 Bolivian Champion (The Strongest)

Awards

  • 1990 Sport badge of honor from the city of St. Pölten

References

  1. ↑ Torque ( Memento from September 22, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), Florian Mittermayr, ballesterer.at, September 1, 2004

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Commons : Mario Kempes  - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
personal data
SURNAME Kempes, Mario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Kempes, Mario Alberto (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentine soccer player and soccer coach
DATE OF BIRTH July 15, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba , Argentina