Osvaldo Ardiles

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Osvaldo Ardiles
Osvaldo Ardiles (1981) .jpg
Personnel
Surname Osvaldo César Ardiles
birthday 3rd August 1952
place of birth Cordoba ,  Argentina
size 169 cm
position Right midfield
Juniors
Years station
Instituto de Córdoba
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1973 Instituto de Córdoba 14 0(3)
1974 CA Belgrano 16 0(2)
1975-1988 CA Huracan 113 (11)
1978-1988 Tottenham Hotspur 221 (16)
1982-1983 →  Paris Saint-Germain  (loan) 14 0(1)
1985 →  St. George (Sydney) (loan) 1 0(0)
1988 →  Blackburn Rovers  (loan) 5 0(0)
1988-1989 Queens Park Rangers 8 0(0)
1989 Fort Lauderdale Strikers 5 0(1)
1989-1991 Swindon Town 2 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1975-1982 Argentina 52 0(8)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1989-1991 Swindon Town
1991-1992 Newcastle United
1992-1993 West Bromwich Albion
1993-1994 Tottenham Hotspur
1995 Deportivo Guadalajara
1996-1998 Shimizu S-Pulse
1999 NK Croatia Zagreb
2000-2001 Yokohama F. Marinos
2001 Al-Ittihad
2002-2003 Racing Club de Avellaneda
2003-2005 Tokyo Verdy 1969
2006 Beitar Jerusalem
2007 CA Huracan
2008 Club Cerro Porteño
2012 FC Machida Zelvia
1 Only league games are given.

Osvaldo César Ardiles (born August 3, 1952 in Córdoba ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach .

Career as a football player

Ardiles was one of the best defensive midfielders in the world in the 1970s and became world champions with Argentina in 1978. Osvaldo Ardiles played a total of 52 times for the Argentine national football team .

Osvaldo Ardiles was born as one of four sons of a lawyer not interested in football in Córdoba , the second largest city in Argentina, located in the heart of the country. From an early age he was an avid street footballer who already stood at the side of his seven-year-old brother when he was seven. The slender, only 169 cm high Bürscherl was quickly found among the youth of the local large association Instituto de Córdoba . Due to his physical stature, Ardiles was not entirely sure of his long-term suitability as a professional footballer, although he was quite self-confident about his ability as such. He kept busy studying law and also won a provincial championship in table tennis . Finally, in 1972, he won the side of Mario Kempes , who would later make it from World Cup scorer king to Vienna to Vienna, with the Instituto fighting team, the championship of Cordoba. In 1973 when it first took part in the national championship, Instituto took a middle place.

While Kempes moved to CA Rosario Central , Ardiles first went to the larger local competitor, the CA Belgrano . In the national championship Belgrano was fifth in one of the four groups of nines and therefore did not qualify for the final like the two group winners.

The next promotion followed in 1975. This time in the form of a change to the capital Buenos Aires to the CA Huracán . The club, which had slipped into insignificance since its glory days in the 1920s, was built up in previous years by coach César Luis Menotti as a playful alternative to the more destructive Argentine football at that time. Huracán won such a championship, the 1973 Campeonato Metropolitano , and Menotti became the new national coach in 1974 after the disappointing World Cup. At the side of players like Miguel Brindisi and René Houseman , Ardiles won runner-up championships in 1975 and 1976 with the club from the Parque Patricios district a few kilometers southwest of the city center .

National team

A temporary personal highlight, however, was probably his first appointment to the national team in 1975 during a friendly international match in Cochabamba, where Argentina won 2-1 against Bolivia. The South American Championship followed in August and was first held under the name Copa America . There Ardiles scored in the first round match against Venezuela in Caracas just before the end of the game to make it 5-1, which was also his first goal for Argentina. He added his second goal in the 11-0 victory over Venezuela in Rosario - the Argentine national team's second-highest win after a 12-0 victory over Ecuador in 1942. Due to two defeats against Brazil, Argentina did not get past the first round.

Nevertheless, Ardiles had established himself as a regular player and retained this role at the 1978 World Cup , which took place in Argentina.

Tottenham Hotspur

After the World Championship, Ardiles and co-world champion Ricardo "Ricky" Villa of Racing Club were signed by Tottenham Hotspur manager Keith Burkinshaw for an impressive total of £ 750,000.

In north London he became one of the most popular players in the English First Division . On April 2, 1982, Argentina began military operations to regain sovereignty over the Malvines (Falkland Islands). The next day, Tottenham defeated Leicester City 2-0 in the FA Cup , but Ardiles was booed with every touch of the ball. On April 4th, Ardiles flew to Buenos Aires and was not seen in London for eight months.

World Championship 1982

At the World Cup in Spain , which will take place in Spain from June , at which 21-year-old Diego Maradona was Argentina's star, Ardiles took part in all games of the defending champion, but who in the second round played in group mode with arguably the best teams of the tournament, Brazil and Italy, failed.

Half season in Paris

At the beginning of the 1982/83 season there was a loan deal with Paris Saint Germain, which Ardiles gladly accepted. So he survived the Falklands War there , in which his cousin José, an air force pilot, was killed. He described his performance in Ligue 1 as "deplorable". This was probably due to depression, which prompted him to seek professional assistance soon after his return to London in 1983. After returning to London, he played a league game for Tottenham in January and February.

In Australia at St. George Budapest

In May 1985 he was asked on a tour from Tottenham to Australia by the Sydney first division club St. George Budapest Club whether he would like to play for the club in the northern hemisphere during the summer break. It finally came on June 10th in St. George Stadium in front of 4,380 spectators for the team from South Sydney trained by Frank Arok against the Marconi Club from Fairfield, trained by Les Scheinflug . After three minutes, Ardiles hit a free-kick on the crossbar and there were some remarkable combinations with Trevor Morgan and Robbie Slater that led to scoring opportunities. Australia international Ian Gray scored the only goal of the game, which meant the win for the team from the western suburbs. That was the end of Ardiles' Australian adventure.

He then stayed with the North Londoners until the end of the 1987/88 season. But then he was able to gain his first experience as a coach when after the 12th matchday towards the end of October coach David Pleat , who, as they say, was supposed to be shot down anyway, had to resign because of a somewhat embarrassing legal matter. Ardiles took over as player- coach with Ray Clemence and Doug Livermore as assistants for five game days of the team that had been in seventh place until Terry Venables , who was released from FC Barcelona early in the season , took over at the end of November. Ardiles' record was three defeats, two draws at 1: 9 goals and one drop in 10th place. At the end of the season, Tottenhammer were 13th.

Ardiles said goodbye to the club in mid-March 1988 after the 34th of 42 match days on the occasion of a 3-0 defeat at Wimbledon FC and spent the rest of the season on loan with the Blackburn Rovers in the second division. The Rovers were fifth at the end of what they qualified for playoffs for promotion, but where the 18th of the first division of 22 clubs at the time, Chelsea FC , was too high a hurdle.

QPR and US championship title in 1989

In the following season he played eight first division games for the Queens Park Rangers until January 1989 , where he suffered from various injury problems. In March he also suffered a broken leg during training. By the middle of the year he was sufficiently restored to compete in the American Soccer League for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers who secured the championship title in final games against Washington Stars and Boston Bolts . In these games, however, Ardiles was absent due to injury, but this did not prevent his acceptance into the ASL All-Stars team at the end of the season. The Strikers finally secured the national title in a playoff, again without Ardiles, against the winners of the Western Soccer Alliance , the San Diego Nomads .

He ended his active career in 1991 as a player-coach at the second division Swindon Town, which he led to promotion, which then did not materialize because the club had excelled with financial irregularities.

Career as a coach

This was followed by coaching positions at the second division club Newcastle United , he was replaced in 1991/92 after 30 of 46 game days due to the risk of relegation by Kevin Keegan , who still saved the club. Then he was with the second division relegated West Bromwich Albion which he led to promotion. In 1994/94 he was 15th with Tottenham Hotspur and in the following season Jürgen Klinsmann was brought to the club after 12 matchdays in 11th place. Afterwards he was at Dinamo Zagreb , in Japan ( Shimizu S-Pulse , Yokohama F. Marinos ) and Saudi Arabia ( Al-Ittihad ). Then Ardiles returned home to Racing Club Avellaneda . This was followed by a station in Japan near Tokyo Verdy . In 2006 he took over the coaching position at Beitar Jerusalem where he resigned in October after disagreements with management. In 2007 he became the coach of CA Huracán in Argentina . From May 2008 to August 2008 Ardiles coached the Paraguayan first division club Cerro Porteño .

Others

As a midfielder, Ardiles wore the number 1 at the 1982 World Cup , as the shirt numbers, with the exception of number 10, were assigned by Maradona in alphabetical order.

In 1981 he starred in the film Escape or Victory alongside Sylvester Stallone , Michael Caine and many other famous footballers.

title

  • Soccer world champion: 1978

Web links

Commons : Osvaldo Ardiles  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Paris Saint Germain won the French Cup, the Coupe de France 1982/83 that season . The first game for this tournament took place in February 1983, when Ardiles was no longer part of the roster.
  2. ↑ Osvaldo Ardiles: Ossie's Dream: My Autobiography. 2009, p. 166.
personal data
SURNAME Ardiles, Osvaldo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Ardiles, Osvaldo César
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH 3rd August 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Cordoba