Héctor Facundo

Osvaldo Héctor Facundo ( born November 2, 1937 in Buenos Aires, † 13 November, 2009 Pavón, Buenos Aires Province) was an Argentine football player, who participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1962. At club level Facundo played for both clubs bonarenser CA San Lorenzo de Almagro and CA Huracán.

Career

Club career

Héctor Facundo was recorded as 18- year-old in 1956 in the first team of the club Bonarenser CA San Lorenzo de Almagro. Over the next eight years to 1963 Facundo, who acted in the position of a striker, was active for San Lorenzo de Almagro and won once while the Argentine championship. In the 1959 season they finished first with seven points ahead of the Racing Club of Avellaneda. This was San Lorenzo de Almagro, where Facundo among other things, played together with other South American football greats of the era such as the Argentine attackers José Sanfilippo and Norberto Boggio or Paraguayan midfielder Ángel Berni, for the Copa Libertadores 1960, the first of its kind ever to start. In the playoff semi-finals of the San Lorenzo defeated the Uruguayan representative CA Peñarol, against Olimpia Asunción of Paraguay won the Americas Cup for club teams a little later. San Lorenzo was Montevideo only narrowly defeated, according to the nowadays applied rule that the greater number of away goals, with the same goal difference is crucial, it would even have been in the finals since they played in Montevideo 1:1 and home goalless draw.

Héctor Facundo played until the end of 1963 for San Lorenzo de Almagro, and came to a total of 121 league games for the club, where he scored 28 goals. For season 1964, he went to the city rivals CA Huracán where he further fifteen games in the Primera División made ​​in the next two years, but did not make it to the regulars. 1965 ended Héctor Facundo at the age of only 28 years, his career as a football player.

National

Between 1959 and 1962, Héctor Facundo was used seven times in the Argentine national soccer team. During this time he scored one goal. This one goal decided the opening game of the Argentine team in the Football World Cup 1962 in Chile, which won 1-0 the team of coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo against Bulgaria. Facundo was in the fourth minute of the game only scorer of the game at the Estadio El Teniente of Rancagua. By a 1-3 defeat against England and 0-0 against Hungary, however, the Argentine team retired at the World tournament in 1962 as third in the group after the first round of. After the World Cup ended in the national life of Héctor Facundo.