Federico Sacchi

Federico Sacchi in the jersey of the Newell 's Old Boys

Federico Sacchi ( born September 4, 1936 in Rosario, Santa Fe Province ) is a former Argentine football player and later coach. As he took active part in the World Cup in Chile in 1962 and was active at club level for CA Newell 's Old Boys Racing Club, Boca Juniors and Sporting Cristal. Later, he was a short time coach of the Argentine national soccer team.

Career

Club career

Federico Sacchi began playing football at the club CA Tiro Federal in his hometown of Rosario, the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, was also born in the Sacchi on the fourth September 1936. After a few years in the youth department of Tiro Federal he signed in 1958 a professional contract with Newell's Old Boys who were also based in Rosario. For the club made ​​Federico Sacchi 1958-1960 sixty League matches in La Liga, the top division in Argentine football, and scored seven goals.

For the 1961 season he moved to Racing Club after Avellaneda, an industrial suburb of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. When Racing Club Sacchi spent quite a successful time and played among other things, along with players such as Omar Corbatta, Rubén Héctor Raúl Sosa or Belén. In the season 1961, in Sacchi's first season at the Estadio Presidente Perón, he won with the Racing Club, the Argentine championship, as in the Primera División a first place with seven points ahead of San Lorenzo de Almagro was occupied. This was the only championship for Federico Sacchi in the jersey of Racing Club. He was still playing for the club until 1964 and came to a total of 88 games with twelve gates.

1964 left Federico Sacchi Avellaneda and the Boca Juniors joined them, where he was again in his first season immediately Argentine champion. The team led by players such as Alfredo Rojas, Antonio Rattín, Carmelo Simeone and Silvio Marzolini finished second in the championship the first rank with a meter ahead of eternal rivals CA River Plate and was able to defend the title from the previous year. This feat was not possible to Boca Juniors in the following year and you had the Racing Club to defer. Federico Sacchi acted up to and including the 1966 season in the middle of Boca Juniors. He graduated in the two years of its activity in La Boca 24 league games with a goal and was not getting to the root formation. After his departure from Boca Juniors he made his career in 1967 in Peru end with Sporting Cristal.

National

Between 1960 and 1965 it brought Federico Sacchi fifteen matches in the Argentine national football team, where he managed a score. From Argentina coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1962 in Chile. During the tournament Sacchi was used in all three games of the Argentine team, he not scored one goal. After only three points from three matches ( one win, one draw and one loss ), however, the Argentine team was eliminated at the World Championships in 1962 after the first round. For Federico Sacchi, it remained at that one World Cup finals, he ended his international career in the year before the World Cup in England in 1966, after he had made ​​fifteen internationals.

After the end of his active career as a footballer Federico Sacchi worked a long time as an assistant César Luis Menotti. In 1979, when Menotti in the Junior World Cup in Japan a short time could not act as a coach, Sacchi took over as interim coach whose tasks in order to deliver it back to El Flaco after the World Junior Championship.

In addition to his commitment as an assistant César Luis Menotti Sacchi was also coach of a number smaller clubs in Argentina, including Tigre and San Martín de Tucumán CA. In addition, Sacchi coached youth Racing Club Team and Atlético de Rafaela.