Ricardo Giusti

Ricardo Giusti
Personnel
Surname	Ricardo Omar Giusti
birthday	December 11, 1956
place of birth	Arroyo Seco ,  Argentina
size	178 cm
position	Defensive Midfield
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1974-1979	Newell's Old Boys	108 (10)
1979-1980	Argentinos Juniors	32 0(2)
1981-1991	CA Independiente	295 (34)
1991-1992	Unión de Santa Fe	31 0(2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1983-1990	Argentina	53 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Ricardo Omar Giusti (born December 11, 1956 in Arroyo Seco ) is a former Argentine soccer player who became the 1986 soccer world champion.

Career

Club career

Ricardo Giusti started his football career in 1975 with Newell's Old Boys in Argentina's third largest city, Rosario . For the Newell's Old Boys, he completed 108 games in the Primera División and scored ten goals. In 1978 he left the club and joined the Argentinos Juniors , the club where Diego Maradona was playing at the time . Here he made 32 league games with two goals in two years and moved to CA Independiente in Avellaneda after the end of the 1980 season . Ricardo Giusti had his most successful time as a footballer at the club, which is or was a record title holder in the Copa Libertadores now and then . With Independiente he won his first Argentine championship in 1983. In the Metropolitano competition they took first place at the end of the season with one point ahead of CA San Lorenzo de Almagro , after they had lost the final against Estudiantes de La Plata in the Nacional . Giusti won a second national title with Independiente in 1988/89, when the Primera División could again be victorious. Two years later Giusti left Independiente and moved to Unión de Santa Fe , where he let his active career end from 1991 to 1992. With Independiente he was also successful on an international level. At the Copa Libertadores 1984 , the team around Jorge Burruchaga , Enzo Trossero and Ricardo Bochini moved into the final, where they met the Brazilian representative and defending champion Gremio Porto Alegre . After the first leg at the Estádio Olímpico Monumental in Porto Alegre was won 1-0 by a goal from Jorge Burruchaga, Independiente, traditionally known for his defensive work, was enough a goalless draw at their home Estadio Almirante Cordero to make the seventh and to this day to win the Copa Libertadores last time. By triumphing in the most important football competition for club teams in South America, coach José Pastoriza's team was eligible for the World Cup , where Independiente faced the winner of the 1983/84 European Cup in Tokyo , Liverpool FC , with a goal from José Percudani won 1-0 after six and a half minutes.

National team

Ricardo Giusti made 53 international matches in the Argentine national football team . He was called into the squad for the 1986 soccer World Cup in Mexico by national coach Carlos Bilardo . At the tournament he was used in all games of his team, a goal did not succeed the midfielder. The Argentine team won the 1986 soccer world championship for the second time in the history of Argentine soccer, and in the final at the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City they beat Germany 3-2 . Four years later they faced each other with exactly this opponent again in the final of the soccer World Cup, with the Germans having the better end this time. At the soccer World Cup in Italy in 1990 Giusti was initially not part of the regular formation in Bilardo's team, he was only substituted once in the preliminary round. In the final round games, he then played the full distance in the round of 16, quarter-finals and semi-finals. In the semi-finals against hosts Italy , which Argentina won 4-3 on penalties, he saw the red card in the 103rd minute of the game and was therefore suspended for the final, which his team lost 1-0 to Germany. After the World Cup, Ricardo Giusti's national team career ended after 53 appearances.

Web links

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