Gustavo Dezotti

Gustavo Abel Dezotti ( born February 14, 1964 in Monte Buey, Córdoba Province ) is a former Argentine footballer.

Career

Association

The striker Gustavo Dezotti began his professional career in 1982 at Newell 's Old Boys in Rosario. He remained there until 1988 under contract. At the end of the 1988 season, he won the Argentine championship with his team and then moved to Europe to Lazio, where he in his only season for Lazio Although denied 29 league games, but only scored 3 goals. In 1989 he was the Italian club U.S. Cremonese, where he scored 51 goals in 154 league games until 1994. After that, he was still playing in Mexico with Club León and CF Atlas and ended in 1998 when Defensor Sporting Club in Uruguay his career.

National

For the Argentine national football team, he played nine matches and scored one goal. He took part in Italy at the football World Cup in 1990. Dezotti played in the final against Germany on the side of Diego Maradona from the start in attack for the suspended Claudio Caniggia. In the 86th minute he was sent off after a choke hold against Jürgen Kohler. The assault happened one minute after Andreas Brehme Germany had brought in front 1-0.