Oscar Rossi

Oscar Rossi
Personnel
Surname	Oscar Pablo Rossi
birthday	July 27, 1930
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
date of death	September 6, 2012
Place of death	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
size	171 cm
position	midfield player
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1950-1953	CA Huracan	165 (43)
1954	Racing Club	9 0(2)0
1955-1959	CA Huracan	s. O.
1960-1964	CA San Lorenzo	104 (23)0
1965	Atlético Nacional
1967	Club Almagro	9 0(1)0
1969	CA Huracan	s. O.
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1956-1963	Argentina	20 0(0)0
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1978	CA San Miguel
1 Only league games are given.

Oscar Pablo Rossi (born July 27, 1930 in Buenos Aires , † September 6, 2012 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine football player and coach . During his active career he played for CA Huracán , CA San Lorenzo de Almagro and Atlético Nacional and took part in the 1962 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Oscar Rossi was born in Parque Patricios , an eastern district of Argentina's capital, Buenos Aires . It was here that he began playing football at the CA Huracán football club . For the club, which was a founding member of the Argentine Primera División in 1930, but has only been champion to this day, Rossi played at the beginning of his career from 1950 to 1953, then again from 1955 to 1959 and in 1969 at the end of his career. Despite the many years he spent at the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó , Rossi could not win a championship title. Overall, Oscar Rossi made 165 league games in the Primera División for Huracán and scored 43 goals.

In addition to CA Huracán, Oscar Rossi also played for CA San Lorenzo de Almagro , where he was under contract from 1960 to 1964. But even at San Lorenzo, the midfielder was unable to win the Argentine football championship. In the jersey of San Lorenzo de Almagro, Oscar Rossi made 104 league games with 23 goals. Together with José Sanfilippo , Rossi formed a successful series of attacks at San Lorenzo, the greatest success of which was to make it to the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores 1960, the first of its kind, where, however, in a playoff against eventual winner CA Peñarol from Uruguay -

In 1954 Oscar Rossi was under contract for a year at the Racing Club from Avellaneda , but could not really assert himself with only nine appearances in the league. He had another station as an active football player in 1967 at Club Almagro , where he played nine games. A short time before he had dared to make the leap abroad and worked for a year in Colombia at Atlético Nacional , from where he soon returned to Argentina.

Oscar Rossi ended his active career as a football player in 1969. Nine years later, in 1978, he became the new coach of the fourth division CA San Miguel , which he coached for a year without much success. After that, he did not take any more coaching jobs.

National team

Between 1956 and 1963 Oscar Rossi came to twenty appearances in the Argentine national football team . However, he could not score a goal. Argentina coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo appointed him to the South American squad for the 1962 World Cup in Chile . In the course of the tournament Rossi was placed in the first group game of his team, the 1-0 win against Bulgaria in attack next to the winning goal scorer Héctor Facundo . The remaining two games of the Argentine team, the 1: 3 against England and the 0: 0 against Hungary , saw Oscar Rossi from the bench. After these two final group games, the World Cup for Argentina was over, they were only third in the group behind Hungary and England and were eliminated.

Sources and Notes

1. ↑ ^{a b c} 165 games at CA Huracán adding up the games 1950 to 1953, 1955 to 1959 and 1969
2. ^ Fallció Oscar “Coco” Rossi , Spanish , accessed September 10, 2012
3. ↑ Murió Coco Rossi, un especialista en tirar caños , Spanish , accessed on September 10, 2012

Web links

• Oscar Rossi in the database of weltfussball.de
• Information about the player
• Information about the player