Rubén Plaza (soccer player)

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Rubén Plaza
Personnel
birthday March 17, 1959
place of birth Canelones ,  Uruguay
date of death July 13, 2012
Place of death Eisenstadt ,  Austria
size 170 cm
position midfield player
Juniors
Years station
CA Juanicó
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1979 Nacional Montevideo
1979-1982 FK Austria Vienna 21 (2)
1982-1985 SC Eisenstadt 54 (4)
1985/86 Viennese sports club
1986/87 SC Eisenstadt 14 (0)
1988 BSC Sendling
1988-1989 SV Sigleß (player-coach) 0 (0)
1989 ASK Baumgarten
Stations as a trainer
Years station
1988 - approx. 2005 Various container functions at
SV Sigleß (player-coach)
SC Eisenstadt
SpG St. Georgen / Eisenstadt
UFC St. Georgen
UFC Donnerskirchen.
1 Only league games are given.

Rubén Plaza (born March 17, 1959 in Montevideo or Canelones , Uruguay ; † July 13, 2012 in Eisenstadt ) was a Uruguayan football player who spent most of his career in Austria and eventually settled there. At the beginning of the 1980s he won two championships and cups with FK Austria Wien and the Mitropacup with SC Eisenstadt .

Life

Ruben Plaza, often called Peco , played for Canelones-based club CA Juanicó in his youth . Plaza had his first professional engagement in Montevideo at the Club Nacional de Football in the late 1970s . At the beginning of the 1979/80 season he moved to FK Austria Wien as a hope for a striker through the mediation of the Uruguayan World Cup winner and former Austrian legionnaire Julio César Morales and initially shared the apartment there with Marcelo Francisco , a newcomer from Brazil of the same age. In 1980 and 1981 he won the championship with Austria and in 1980 and 1982 the Cup. Personally, however, he could not really prevail and only came to 21 league games by the end of the 1981/82 season, in which he scored two goals. He made three appearances in the cup wins, but not in the finals against SV Austria Salzburg or FC Wacker Innsbruck .

In 1982 the only 170 centimeter large plaza moved to the capital of Burgenland to play for SC Eisenstadt, the first division promoted there . In the competition against FK Pristina , Union Teplice and Vasas Budapest , he won the Mitropacup with SC Eisenstadt in 1984 , which, however, no longer had the splendor of past decades and was finally abolished in 1992 after a quickly forgotten final in front of only 1000 spectators. In 1985 Ruben Plaza finished eighth in the Bundesliga with the Eisenstadt team - their best placement of all time.

For the 1985/86 season he returned to Vienna to play for the Bundesliga relegated sports club there. The immediate resurgence succeeded. Then he returned to SC Eisenstadt.

The 1986/87 season was neither happy for him nor for the club. Plaza tore a cruciate ligament during training in February 1987 and was out for a long time. Eisenstadt had to go into the so-called "Middle Playoff" as 10th in the Bundesliga, only finished seventh among the eight participants and thus fell victim to relegation. For Eisenstadt, he played his four first division seasons in a total of 68 of 126 Bundesliga games, in which he hit the goal four times. In the 1987/88 season he initially remained active for Eisenstadt in the 2nd Bundesliga, but the clammy club was happy for financial reasons about his departure for the winter break to Munich for BSC Sendling, who played in the former fifth-rate district Oberliga Süd. The SC Eisenstadt soon had contact with the bankruptcy judge for the first time.

In August 1988 he returned to Burgenland in the role of player-coach of SV Sigleß in the regional league. His time as a player there ended in November in a game against SV Eltendorf with another knee injury. In February he moved to ASKÖ SET Baumgarten , who played in the Eastern League, but ended his career in April 1989 without any further appearances.

In the time that followed, he mainly worked as an assistant and youth coach - mainly at SC Eisenstadt, but also at clubs such as UFC St. Georgen and UFC Donnerskirchen. He was the head coach of the latter.

In August 1990 he opened the La Casita restaurant in Eisenstadt, which specializes in South American specialties . In 2002 he played in a charity team of FC Burgenland with Thomas Parits .

From 2004 he worked for a global company in Pöttelsdorf in the Mattersburg district as export sales manager. His hobbies were mountain biking, hiking, playing poker and cooking. On July 13, 2012, Ruben Plaza never returned from a mountain bike tour and was later found dead. He was buried in the Eisenstadt cemetery. He left a son from his first marriage.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Fallecio en Austria, Ruben "Peco" Plaza. (Spanish), Retrieved November 21, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Plaza, Rubén
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH March 17, 1959
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo or Canelones , Uruguay
DATE OF DEATH July 13, 2012
Place of death Eisenstadt , Austria