Raúl Belén

Raúl Belén
Raúl Belén
Personnel
Surname	Raúl Oscar Belén
birthday	July 1, 1931
place of birth	Santa Fe ,  Argentina
date of death	August 22, 2010
Place of death	Rosario ,  Argentina
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1951-1956	Newell's Old Boys	113 (27)
1957-1964	Racing Club	170 (40)
1965-1966	Newell's Old Boys
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1959-1963	Argentina	31 0(9)
1 Only league games are given.

Raúl Oscar Belén (born July 1, 1931 in Santa Fe , † August 22, 2010 in Rosario ) was an Argentine football player. He took part in the 1962 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Raúl Belén began his football career in 1951 with Newell's Old Boys in his hometown of Rosario , the third largest city in Argentina . For the club, which at that time was more in the lower range of the Primera División , Belén completed a total of 113 games in which he scored 27 goals, but also including his renewed time at the club between 1965 and 1966. After playing in Rosario until 1956, he moved to the Racing Club in Avellaneda , an industrial suburb of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires , in the last year mentioned . With the Racing Club, where he played with other Argentinian football greats of the time such as Roberto Perfumo , Pedro Manfredini and Humberto Maschio , Belém won the Argentine football championship for the first time in his career in 1958. The Racing Club took first place in the final table with a three point lead over the second placed Boca Juniors . Three years later, Belén and the Racing Club won a second title. In the 1961 season they finished first with seven points ahead of CA San Lorenzo de Almagro . This title win entitles them to participate in the Copa Libertadores of the following year , where they were eliminated in the preliminary round in a group with Nacional Montevideo and Sporting Cristal as second behind the Uruguayans, while FC Santos from Brazil won the most important competition for club teams in South America . In 1967 , the Racing Club won the Copa Libertadores for the first time and to date only, but by then Raúl Belén had already ended his active career. After moving back to Newell's Old Boys in 1965, he retired from his hometown club in 1966.

National team

In the Argentine national football team , Raúl Belén was used 31 times between 1959 and 1963. In these 31 games, the attacker scored nine goals. Argentina coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo appointed him to the South American squad for the 1962 World Cup in Chile . In the tournament, in which Argentina failed in the preliminary round, he was used in two of the three games. He was used both in the 1-0 in the first group game in Rancagua against Bulgaria (1-0) and in the second group game against England (1: 3), in the last game Argentina against Hungary (0-0) Belén was not taken into account. In the year after the World Cup, he came to a few missions before he ended his national team career in 1963. He had already competed in the Copa America three years earlier . The 1959 Copa América , in which all games were played in the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires, was won by Argentina. Raúl Belén scored three goals, one in a 6-1 win against Chile and one in a 4-1 win against Uruguay .

Web links

• national-football-teams.com Profile of the player
• Raúl Belén in the database of FIFA (English)
• Information about the player