Pedro Dellacha

Pedro Dellacha
Dellacha, 1952
Personnel
Surname	Pedro Rodolfo Dellacha
birthday	July 9, 1926
place of birth	Lanús ,  Argentina
date of death	July 31, 2010
Place of death	Vicente López ,  Argentina
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1947-1951	Quilmes AC	141 (2)
1952-1959	Racing Club	184 (1)
1959-1965	Necaxa
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1953-1958	Argentina	37 (0)
Stations as a trainer
Years	station
1965	Ferro Carril Oeste
1960s	CA Lanus
1968-1969	CA Platense
1969-1970	CA San Lorenzo
1970-1972	CA Independiente
1972-1973	Celta de Vigo
1975	CA Independiente
1976	Racing Club
1977	Nacional Montevideo
1978	Los Millonarios
1980-1981	CF Monterrey
1986	CA Huracan
1992	Alianza Lima
1992-1993	Santos Laguna
1 Only league games are given.

Pedro Rodolfo Dellacha (born July 9, 1926 in Lanús , † July 31, 2010 in Vicente López ) was an Argentine football player and later coach. He took part as a player in the 1958 World Cup and as a coach won the Copa Libertadores twice .

Player career

Club career

Pedro Dellacha began his football career in 1947 with Quilmes AC . Dellacha played for the club, which is considered to be one of the oldest in Argentina , until 1951 before he joined the Racing Club from Avellaneda , an industrial suburb of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires . In seven years with the club, where he played with other Argentinian football greats of the time such as Omar Corbatta , Antonio Angelillo or Pedro Manfredini , Dellacha was used 184 times by the Racing Club. In 1957, Dellacha was named Argentina's Sportsman of the Year . The defender won his first and only national title as a player in his last season, the 1958 season, when he took first place in the Primera División with three points ahead of Boca Juniors and CA San Lorenzo de Almagro , both from Buenos Aires , occupied. In the same year Pedro Dellacha left the Racing Club and went to Mexico to Necaxa , then not in the Mexican first division. With the club from Aguascalientes Dellacha won the Copa Mexico in 1960, after which they rose to the Primera División . Dellacha played active soccer in Mexico until 1965 before he ended his playing career and began a successful coaching career.

National team

Pedro Dellacha was used in the Argentine national soccer team 35 times between 1953 and 1958. From Argentina coach Guillermo Stábile he was appointed to the South American squad for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden . At the tournament in which Dellacha acted as captain of the Argentine team, he was used in all games. For his team, however, the World Cup was not very successful, because the reigning South American champions were eliminated in the preliminary round with a last place in a group with Germany , Northern Ireland and Czechoslovakia . After the World Cup, Dellacha's time on the national team ended. Previously, Argentina had won the Copa America twice. 1955 in Chile they finished first in front of the hosts, two years later in Peru they achieved first place ahead of Brazil .

Coaching career

At the end of his active career, Pedro Dellacha became a coach. He coached numerous clubs, especially in Argentina and Mexico, but also occasionally in Colombia , Peru, Spain and Uruguay . Dellacha celebrated his greatest successes as a coach in the service of CA Independiente , the local rival of his former Racing Club. With Independiente, Dellacha won the Primera División in 1971 by taking first place in the Metropolitano competition with one point ahead of CA Vélez Sársfield . By this title the club was qualified for the Copa Libertadores of the following year. Independiente won the competition with Pedro Dellacha as coach by a 0-0 and 2-1 in the final against Universitario de Deportes from Peru's capital Lima . In the same year Dellacha could also have won the World Cup with Independiente , but where they lost to the European winner in the European Cup of National Champions 1971/72 , Ajax Amsterdam . Dellacha then moved to Spain to Celta Vigo , only to return to Independiente only a year later without any notable success. There Dellacha managed to win the Copa Libertadores again in his first season. In 1975 Independiente won the final against Unión Española from Chile. Shortly thereafter, Dellacha was signed by the Racing Club, after a year there he went to Uruguay to Nacional Montevideo , where he won the championship in 1977. Dellacha was also able to win two more national championship titles, in 1978 he won the Colombian championship with CD Los Millonarios , and in 1992 with Alianza Lima the Primera División Peruana .

Web links

• Pedro Dellacha in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
• Pedro Dellacha in the database of FIFA (English)
• Information about the player
• Player biography

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Olimpias de oro www.cpd.com.ar. Retrieved September 5, 2019.