Jorge Carrascosa
Jorge Carrascosa ( born August 15, 1948 in Valentín Alsina, Buenos Aires Province ) is a former Argentine footballer. At club level with Rosario Central and CA Huracán quite successful, he also took part in the Football World Cup 1974 in Germany with the national team of his native country.
Career
Club career
Jorge Carrascosa, born in 1948 in the small town of Valentín Alsina in the province of Buenos Aires, began playing football at Banfield, located not far from his birthplace. With Banfield he played three years in the first and second Argentine football league, before in 1969 he received an offer from CA Rosario Central.
It followed the 1970 season in exchange for Rosario Central. A year later, in 1971, managed the team coached by Ángel Labruna, once part of the famous Maquina River Plate, winning the Argentine Football Championship, after being victorious in the Torneo Nacional in the final 2-1 against San Lorenzo de Almagro. This championship was the first ever in the history of club Rosario Central, and was also the beginning of a twenty- year-long successful period of the previous closer to the relegation battle for the championship race positioned Association. Jorge Carrascosa remained until 1972 at Rosario Central and made 88 league appearances for the club, in which he scored three goals.
For the 1973 season the club moved Carrascosa and joined CA Huracán in Buenos Aires. In Huracán, a resistant top notch gambling, but also relatively unsuccessful traditional club, Carrascosa was part of the famous team of the club that won the only recipient of the championship under the auspices César Luis Menotti. The team led by players such as Carlos Babington, Miguel Brindisi or René Houseman took the Torneo Metropolitano 1973 first place, level on points with Boca Juniors, but with all the extra direct comparison and secured the championship to date, only the current second division. In addition to their success that team Huracán Huracans team was known above all by their aggressive style of play the former Argentine football that much of the defensive strategies that Estudiantes de La Plata and Independiente Avellaneda multiply the Copa Libertadores win, oriented to oppose sought, and 70s extremely popular made . After winning the title, however, coach Menotti adopted Estadio Tomás Adolfo Duco from and a year later was Argentine coach. After the end of the era Menotti it was moderately successful for CA Huracán downhill again. It was not possible to build on the earlier successes. Jorge Carrascosa remained active until 1979 when Huracán and ended his footballing career in said year in the jersey of bonarenser clubs. Between 1973 and 1979 it brought the defenders to a total of 287 league games for Huracán, a scoring remained, however, denied.
National
Between 1970 and 1977 it brought Jorge Carrascosa to a total of thirty international matches in the Argentine national soccer team. Here he managed a goal. From National Coach Vladislao Cap he was appointed to the South American squad for the World Cup 1974 in Germany. After Carrascosa was not even used in the preliminaries and also spent the first game of the second group phase on the bench, he scored his first tournament use in the second game of the second group stage, when he came for Francisco Sá in the 46 minutes of the match against Brazil, the 1-2 defeat connected with the now fixed retirement of Argentina, could not prevent. Gar from the beginning Carrascosa played the final, meaningless game against the GDR, which ended in a 1-1 draw.
After the 1974 World Cup played Jorge Carrascosa three years in the national team, his last international game he graduated in 1977. For the Football World Cup 1978 in his own country, he was not considered because he critically showed against the military junta that Argentina from 1976 to 1983 dominated and at least 50,000 people were killed.
Achievements
- Argentine Championship: 2x