Oscar Ortiz (soccer player)

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Oscar Ortiz
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Oscar Ortiz
Personnel
Surname Oscar Alberto Ortiz
birthday April 8, 1953
place of birth Chacabuco ,  Argentina
position striker
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1971-1976 CA San Lorenzo 141 (18)
1976 Gremio Porto Alegre 19 0(0)
1977-1981 River Plate 101 (10)
1981-1982 CA Huracan 25 0(3)
1982-1983 CA Independiente 30 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1975-1979 Argentina 23 0(3)
1 Only league games are given.

Oscar Alberto Ortiz (* 8. April 1953 in Chacabuco ) is a former Argentine football player with the national team of his native country at the 1978 FIFA World Cup took part and won the title there.

Career

Club career

Oscar Ortiz began his football career in 1971 with CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in Buenos Aires , the capital of Argentina . At that time, other Argentinian football greats such as Rubén Ayala , Jorge Olguín and Ricardo La Volpe also played there . Oscar Ortiz won a total of three Argentine championships with CA San Lorenzo, and the 1972 season (Nacional) ended without a single defeat. In the same year, San Lorenzo de Almagro also won the Metropolitano season, where they finished first with six points ahead of Racing Club Avellaneda . The title in the Nacional was then secured in the final by a 1-0 against River Plate . His third championship with the club, which plays its home games at the Estadio El Gasómetro , won Oscar Ortiz in 1974 in the Nacional, when they were first one point ahead of Rosario Central . After five years at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro, Oscar Ortiz moved to Brazil to Gremio Porto Alegre , only to leave the club after just one season and an extremely poor goal rate as a striker with no goal in 19 games. Now Ortiz went to CA River Plate, the noble club from Buenos Aires. There he played with Leopoldo Luque , Ubaldo Fillol and Daniel Passarella , among others , and won five titles with River Plate in four years, namely Metropolitano 1977, 1979 and 1980 and Nacional 1979 and 1981. In the latter year Oscar Ortiz left CA River Plate and joined the city rivals CA Huracán , from where he moved to CA Independiente after another season and ended his football career there in 1983, but won another championship with Independiente in his last season.

National team

In the Argentine national football team , Oscar Ortiz made 23 appearances between 1975 and 1979, in which he scored three goals. With the national team of his home country Ortiz took part in the football World Cup in 1978 in their own country. In coach César Luis Menotti's team , Ortiz appeared in six Argentine games, but failed to score. The only game in which Oscar Ortiz was not used was the Argentinians' first game, the 2-1 against Hungary . In the other games, first in the group stage in the 2-1 win against France and in the 0-1 win against Italy as well as in the final round in the victories over Poland (2-0) and Peru (6-0) and in the draw against Brazil (0 : 0) it was used by Menotti. Oscar Ortiz was also in the Argentine starting line-up in the final at Estadio Monumental , the stadium of his former club River Plate, against the Netherlands , but was replaced by René Houseman in the 74th minute of the game when his team was 1-0 . In the end, Argentina won 3-1 after extra time after the Netherlands had equalized shortly before the end of regular time. A year later, Oscar Ortiz completed his last international match.

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personal data
SURNAME Ortiz, Oscar
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ortiz, Oscar Alberto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 8, 1953
PLACE OF BIRTH Chacabuco