Raúl Páez

Raúl Alberto Páez (* 26. May 1937 in Cordoba , Argentina ) is a former Argentine football player who spent most of his career at San Lorenzo de Almagro spent with the national team of his country at the FIFA World Cup 1962 took part.

Career

Club career

Raúl Páez, born in 1937 in the Argentine city of Córdoba, began his active career as a football profile in 1958 at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro , historically the third largest club in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires . For San Lorenzo de Almagro, Raúl Páez played from 1958 for the next nine years until 1967 and completed 214 league games in the club's league team during this time. The defender scored three goals during that time. As a player from CA San Lorenzo de Almagro, Raúl Páez won the Argentine football championship once. The season of 1959 ended in first place with seven points ahead of the second-placed Racing Club from the Partido Avellaneda . As the Argentine champion from 1959 you were eligible to start the Copa Libertadores 1960 , the first competition of its kind in South America, at that time still under the old name Copa Campeones de América . In the tournament, Raúl Páez failed with the team of coach José Barreiro only in the replay of the semi-finals against the Uruguayan representative and later first Copa Libertadores winner CA Peñarol , after EC Bahia from Brazil had previously been defeated. As a result, Raúl Páez could not qualify again for the Copa Libertadores with San Lorenzo . Even at the national level, it was no longer possible to match the performances shown in the 1959 championship season. It was not until 1968, the first year after Páez's departure, that San Lorenzo de Almagro won the Argentine championship again.

In the same year, Raúl Páez ended his active career as a footballer after he was on the field for Quilmes AC for a year in 1968 .

National team

In 1962, Raúl Páez made three international matches for the Argentine national football team. He played two of these three games as part of the 1962 World Cup in Chile . In the first two tournament games of the team of coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo Páez was used by this in the defense of Argentina team. Only the third and final group game, which sealed the elimination of the Argentine national team, Páez missed. After the World Cup, he made only one international match, but remained as in the previous two national competitions without a hit.

Web links

• Raúl Páez in the database of weltfussball.de
• Raúl Páez in the database of FIFA (English)
• Information about the player