Roberto Ferreiro

Roberto Ferreiro
Roberto Ferreiro in the national jersey
Personnel
Surname	Roberto Oscar Ferreiro
birthday	April 25, 1935
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
date of death	April 20, 2017
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1958-1967	CA Independiente	221 (0)
1968-1970	CA River Plate	75 (0)
1971	Los Millonarios CD	10 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1962-1966	Argentina	20 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Roberto Oscar Ferreiro (* 25. April 1935 in Buenos Aires ; † 20th April 2017 ) was an Argentine football player and later coach, who as a player with the national team of his native country at the 1966 FIFA World Cup took part.

Career

Club career

Roberto Ferreiro played most of his career with CA Independiente from the Bonaren suburb of Avellaneda . Between 1958 and 1967 he made 221 games for Independiente in the Primera División , the top division in Argentine football, but did not succeed in scoring. During his time at Independiente, Roberto Ferreiro won the Argentine championship three times. When they first won the title in 1960, the team led by Ferreiro, Raúl Bernao and David Acevedo took first place in the Primera División, two points ahead of CA River Plate . The second win of the Argentine championship succeeded Roberto Ferreiro with Independiente three years later in 1963, when after all game days the first place in the table could be reached again with two points before River Plate. Even after the introduction of the two-track season with Campeonato Metropolitano and Campeonato Nacional, Independiente remained successful and won the championship again in the 1967 Nacional competition with two points ahead of Estudiantes de La Plata . This was the last title win for Roberto Ferreiro with Independiente, he left the club the following year and joined CA River Plate, where he played football for three more years until 1970 and completed 86 league games for the club from the capital Buenos Aires . In 1971 he played another year for CD Los Millonarios in Colombia and scored the first two league goals of his career in Bogotá , where he only made ten games for Millonarios.

Roberto Ferreiro was also successful on an international level with CA Independiente. The Copa Campeones de America 1964 could be made victorious by the players of coach Manuel Giudice. Independiente eliminated Los Millonarios and the Peruvian representative Alianza Lima in the preliminary round and then defeated last year's winner FC Santos for world star Pelé in the semifinals . In the first leg of the final, Independiente reached a goalless draw against Nacional Montevideo at the Estadio Centenario of Montevideo and won the second leg in Avellaneda 1-0, which Independiente won the Copa Libertadores for the first time . Roberto Ferreiro was on the field in both finals and played his part in defense to ensure that Independiente did not concede a goal in either game. In 1965 the Copa Campeones de América was renamed Copa Libertadores and Independiente was able to win the first season under a new name. In the final they were victorious against CA Peñarol , again from Uruguay . After a win at the Estadio Almirante Cordero zu Avellaneda and a defeat in Centenario, a play-off had to be decided, which was won 4-1 by Independiente in Santiago de Chile . Roberto Ferreiro played in all three games of the final. With the two victories in the Copa Libertadores, Ferreiro and Independiente were also eligible to take part in the World Cup . In both participations, however, they lost to the winner of the European Cup , which was called Inter Milan .

After his time as a player, Roberto Ferreiro became a football coach. Among other things, he coached his old club CA Independiente, with which he won the Copa Libertadores in 1974 and the World Cup in the same year.

National team

In the Argentine national soccer team Roberto Ferreiro was used a total of twenty times. National coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo called him into the squad for the 1966 World Cup . At the tournament in England Ferreiro was used in all four games of his team. The Argentinians, who played extremely hard, reached the quarter-finals in the course of the World Cup, having finished second behind Germany and ahead of Spain and Switzerland in the preliminary round . In the round of the last eight teams, Argentina then lost to hosts England , who would later become world champions. The quarter-finals against England were also Roberto Ferreiro's last international match.

Web links

• Roberto Ferreiro in the database of FIFA (English)
• Information about the player
• Profile of the player

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Dolor en Independiente: falleció Roberto “Pipo” Ferreiro. In: El Intransigente. April 20, 2017, Retrieved April 21, 2017 (Spanish).