Óscar Mas
Óscar Mas | ||
Personnel | ||
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Surname | Óscar Antonio Mas Magallán | |
birthday | October 29, 1946 | |
place of birth | Villa Ballester , Argentina | |
size | 167 cm | |
position | Center Forward | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
1964-1973 | CA River Plate | 306 (167) |
1973-1974 | real Madrid | 27 (11) |
1975-1976 | CA River Plate | 73 (29) |
1977-1988 | America de Cali | 66 (36) |
1979 | Quilmes AC | 11 (3) |
1980-1981 | Defensores Belgrano | |
1982 | CA Sarmiento | 18 (6) |
1983-1984 | Club El Porvenir | |
1984 | Defensores Belgrano | |
1985 | Hurácan Las Heras | |
1986-1987 | CA Talleres | |
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
1965-1972 | Argentina | 37 (10) |
1 Only league games are given. |
Óscar Antonio "Pinino" Mas Magallán (born October 29, 1946 in Villa Ballester ) is a former Argentinian football player.
Career
Club career
Óscar Mas played most of his football career with CA River Plate in Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires . From 1964 to 1973 and from 1974 to 1977 he made a total of 382 league games in the Primera División , Argentina's top division in football, and scored 198 goals. He is the second best goalscorer in the history of the club, only Ángel Labruna was even more successful with 293 league goals . With River Plate, where he played with other Argentine football greats of the time such as Ubaldo Fillol , Norberto Alonso or Ermindo Onega , Mas won the Argentine championship twice. In 1975 both the Nacional and the Metropolitano competition were won. Five years earlier, in 1970, Mas, who acted in the position of an attacker, had already become the top scorer of the Primera División in the Metropolitano competition. He succeeded in doing this a second time in 1973. In 1970 he also scored the most goals in the Copa Libertadores , the most important competition for club teams in South America , while River failed in the semifinals at the eventual winner Estudiantes de La Plata . During his entire career, Óscar Mas was never able to win the Copa Libertadores, Rivers first Libertadores title only dates back to 1986, when Mas had just finished his career.
In addition to his involvement with River Plate, Óscar Mas also spent a year in Europe with the Spanish noble club Real Madrid . In the Primera División Spain 1973/74 but only eighth place and the cup victory was achieved, while the eternal rival FC Barcelona won the championship. Mas has been used in twenty-four league games and came to eleven goals. After the end of the 1973/74 season, he returned to River Plate. After his second farewell to River in 1977, Mas still played for América de Cali in Colombia and some regional Argentine clubs such as Quilmes AC , where he was under contract in 1979 in the first year after their first championship, but only made seven games, Defensores de Belgrano or CA Sarmiento . However, great successes could not be celebrated. In 1985, Óscar Mas ended his active career at the age of 39 in the shirt of Huracán Las Heras .
National team
Óscar Mas was used between 1965 and 1972 in 37 international matches of the Argentine national football team , where he got ten goals. Argentina's national coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo called the striker into the squad for the 1966 World Cup in England . In the course of the tournament Mas was used in all four games of his team, but he did not score. The Argentine team finished second in Group 2 behind Germany and ahead of Spain and Switzerland and finally failed in the quarter-finals, there was no round of 16 at that time, due to the eventual world champions and hosts England . The following year Óscar Mas took part with the national team of his home country at the Campeonato Sudamericano in 1967 in Uruguay and finished second behind the host. Twenty years later he took part in the Pelé Cup .
Web links
- Óscar Mas in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Oscar Más in the database of FIFA (English)
- Information about the player
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Mas, Óscar |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Mas Magallán, Óscar Antonio (full name); Pinino |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Argentinian soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | October 29, 1946 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Villa Ballester , Argentina |