Rubén Pagnanini

Rubén Pagnanini
Rubén Pagnanini
Personnel
Surname	Rubén Oscar Pagnanini
birthday	January 31, 1949
place of birth	San Nicolás de los Arroyos ,  Argentina
position	Defender
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1968-1977	Estudiantes de La Plata	329 (22)
1977-1979	CA Independiente	70 0(2)
1980	Argentinos Juniors	2 0(0)
1981	Minnesota kicks	14 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1978	Argentina	4 0(1)
1 Only league games are given.

Rubén Oscar Pagnanini (born January 31, 1949 in San Nicolás de los Arroyos ) is a former Argentine football player. With the national team of his home country he took part in the Football World Cup in 1978 , where it won the title.

Career

Club career

Rubén Pagnanini, who was born in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, a city in the province of Buenos Aires , in 1949, began his football career with Estudiantes from La Plata , the capital of the province of Buenos Aires. In his first season with Estudiantes he won the Copa Libertadores 1968 , the most important competition for club teams in South America. However, as in the triumph the following year, he was not part of the Estudiantes first team. In the third Copa Libertadores title in 1970, however, Rubén Pagnanini was in the team of Estudiantes de La Plata, which defeated Uruguayan representatives Peñarol Montevideo 1-0 in the final and 0-0 in the second leg. 1971 was Estudiantes for the fourth time in a row in the final of the Copa Libertadores. This time the team led by striker Juan Ramón Verón lost the final against Nacional Montevideo in the play-off after winning 1-0 in La Plata and losing 1-0 in Montevideo . Pagnanini was not part of it, however. With this defeat, the long success period of Estudiantes de La Plata in the Copa Libertadores ended; the competition could only be won again in 2009. At the national level, the company was not so successful in the following years, the best placement was a second place in 1975. In 1977 Rubén Pagnanini left Estudiantes de La Plata and joined CA Independiente from Avellaneda , an industrial suburb of Buenos Aires . With Independiente, who won the Copa Libertadores four times in a row between 1972 and 1975, he won two championships in 1977 and 1978 (both Nacional). In 1979 he changed clubs again and went to the Argentinos Juniors , where he let his career end at the side of the young Diego Armando Maradona . In 1981 he made another 14 games for the Minnesota Kicks in the United States .

National team

Rubén Pagnanini made 4 appearances in the Argentine national soccer team , all of which he booked in 1978. He scored one goal in these four games. From Argentina coach Cesar Luis Menotti , he was in the squad for the FIFA World Cup nominated in their own country. In the tournament, however, he was not used. Meanwhile, the Argentine team, which played with international top stars such as Mario Kempes from FC Valencia , Daniel Passarella from River Plate Buenos Aires or Daniel Bertoni from Independiente Avellaneda , won the World Cup for the first time with a 3-1 win at the Estadio after extra time Monumental of Buenos Aires against the Netherlands .

Web links

• Rubén Pagnanini in the database of FIFA (English)
• Rubén Pagnanini in the database of weltfussball.de
• Rubén Pagnanini - information about the player
• Rubén Pagnanini in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)