Ricardo Bochini

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Ricardo Bochini
Bochini ene16.jpg
Personnel
Surname Ricardo Enrique Bochini
birthday January 25, 1954
place of birth Zárate , Buenos Aires Province ,  Argentina
size 168 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
CA Independiente
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1972-1991 CA Independiente 635 (94)
2007 Sportivo Barracas 1 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1977-1986 Argentina 27 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ricardo Enrique Bochini (born January 25, 1954 in Zárate , Buenos Aires Province ) is a former Argentine football player . With 635 games, he is the record holder for most games for his home club CA Independiente , as well as the record holder for most appearances in the Argentine Primera División .

In Argentina he was mainly known by his nickname El Bocha or just Bocha . Bochini is the uncle of Diego Forlán .

Career

Youth and club career

Bochini, 2008.

Bochini began his career as a football player at a young age at the club, to which he was to remain loyal as a professional football player for almost 20 years.

On June 25, 1972, the 18-year-old attacking midfielder made his professional league debut in the 0-1 away defeat by CA River Plate . In the course of his career, he was also active on the left, but often returned to his traditional position as an attacking midfielder. His first goal as a professional footballer he scored on November 19, 1972, when he scored the only goal for his team in the 1: 2 home defeat to Racing Club Avellaneda .

In the 1972 season he made eleventh place in just a few missions in the Metropolitano , which was considered the overall Argentine championship from 1967 to 1985. It should be noted that from 1967 to 1985 the game was played exclusively in the Metropolitano and Nacional format and so two separate championships were held in one year. The championship held under the name Nacional was also divided into two different groups (Group A and Group B).

Even during the 1972 Nacional, Bochini and the team in seventh place reached only one place in the middle of the table in Group A. From the 1973 season onwards, El Bocha increasingly played professional games; at the same time the performance of the team was better, which resulted in a fourth place in the final table of the Metropolitano. During the national again only one place in the middle of the table was achieved. Despite the performance in the championship, Bochini won the Copa Libertadores , the most important club competition in South American football, with the team in 1973 . In addition, the team under Roberto Ferreiro also won the 1973 World Cup after the team defeated Juventus Turin 1-0. Bochini scored the only goal of the game in the 80th minute of the game.

After previous moderate performances in the league, the team around El Bocha managed to win the Copa Libertadores again in 1974. The team also won the Copa Interamericana in 1974 for the second time after 1972 . Another success was already noticeable in the following year 1975, when Independiente again managed to win the Copa Libertadores and then win the Copa Interamericana for themselves.

Almost two years should pass for Bochini without any significant success. In 1977 El Bocha finally made it with his core team to become champions of the Nacional. These performances continued into the second part of the season, when the team behind River Plate was runner-up in the Metropolitano. Bochini celebrated a similar success the following year, in which he was again champion of the Nacional.

Then again a few years passed without any notable successes before the team was allowed to celebrate the runner-up title of the Nacional in the 1982 season. 1983 continued with similarly constant performance. At first the team around El Bocha was "only" runner-up in the Nacional, but then he won the Metropolitano championship with the team and was able to build on the successes of the last title wins.

After a moderate season in 1984, Bochini had another breakthrough in international club football. By winning the Copa Libertadores in 1984 , the team qualified for the only game of the 1984 World Cup , where Liverpool FC waited. In the end, the El Bocha team deservedly won 1-0 after the then 19-year-old José Alberto Percudani shot his team in the lead in the 6th minute.

Bochini showed his best offensive performances in the 1985/86 season , when he scored nine goals in 33 league games, and in the 1986/87 season , while scoring eight times in 38 league appearances and the team in third place in the final table reached.

Then again a few years passed until the team managed to become champions of the Primera División again in 1988/89 . The format in which the championship was won was a European one since the 1985/86 season. In the following season, the team reached second place in the final table and was thus runner-up in the Primera División. While El Bocha scored a goal in 27 championship games this season, he ended his active career as a professional footballer in the 1990/91 season , which was also to be the last season in which the European format was played. In his last 17 games at Independiente, however, he did not score any more.

On February 27, 2007, around 16 years after the end of his active career, Bochini came to an official league game of the then Argentinian fifth division Sportivo Barracas for a 42-minute mission.

On July 19, 2009, Bochini took part in an old-man tournament, which was held under the name Super-8 and was made up of eight old-man teams from major Argentine clubs. Bochini made a short appearance in a 2-0 defeat against Boca Juniors .

International

Bochini (left) with Diego Maradona

Bochini made a total of 27 appearances for the Argentine national soccer team and took part in the 1986 World Cup in Mexico . During the World Cup he came to work alongside Diego Maradona , who would later become the best player of the tournament. He came on as a substitute for Jorge Burruchaga in the 84th minute of the semi-final match against Belgium .

successes

society

National team

Web links

Commons : Ricardo Bochini  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ In Suarez's absence Uruguay will lean even more heavily on Forlan (English) of July 4, 2010, accessed on May 1, 2013
  2. ^ Ricardo Bochini en el Torneo Argentino C 2007 (Spanish), accessed on October 26, 2009
  3. ↑ Match statistics Argentina - Belgium 2-0 (0-0) , accessed on October 26, 2009
personal data
SURNAME Bochini, Ricardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Bochini, Ricardo Enrique (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH January 25, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Zárate , Buenos Aires Province, Argentina