MartÃn Pando
Pando in the sports magazine El Gráfico from July 8, 1962
Martín Esteban Pando ( born December 26, 1934) is a former Argentine football player, who participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1962.
Career
Club career
Martín Pando began his active career as a football player anno 1955 was the age of nineteen, present at CA Platense, nowadays only a second-rate football club, who was then still in La Liga, the top division in Argentine football. By 1957, Pando came for Platense to seven appearances in the first team, before joining the Argentinos Juniors for season 1958. For the Juniors Pando played in 105 league games in La Liga to 1961, scoring 25 goals. A title win but it was not vergönnst, generally had the Argentinos Juniors their best years in the eighties, the club was able to twice win the championship and a Copa Libertadores, long before him. At the turn of 1961/62 Martín Pando went to CA River Plate, Argentina 's most successful club, but 1957-1975 was without title. This period also Martín Pando's commitment fell at River, while he played with Argentine football greats of the era such as goalkeeper Amadeo Carrizo, Defender Vladislao Cap or midfielder Ermindo Onega, but could not celebrate significant achievements while in 53 games with six Torerfolgen League operation made . In 1965, Martín Pando River Plate left and moved one last time in his career, the club he played for from now Lanus, a relatively unsuccessful first division of the province of Buenos Aires, for which he again came to 77 inserts and 1967 in the jersey of Lanús his active career ended at the age of 33 years.
After the end of his career as a football player is not one found Martín Pando long time as a senior person in the football sector. In 1983 he became the successor of José Varacka as coach of River Plate, but to occupy this position only on an interim basis, and little has been superseded by the Uruguayan and former River 's Luis Cubilla again.
National
Between 1960 and 1962, Martín Pando was appointed as player of Argentinos Juniors and River Plate to eleven operations in Argentina's national soccer team. In 1962, he was put into the squad for the World Cup in Chile national coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo. During the tournament, which ended for the Argentine team after the preliminary round as third in the group behind Hungary and England and ahead of Bulgaria, Pando was set up twice. Both the first group match, a 1-0 victory against Bulgaria a goal by Héctor Facundo in the fourth minute mark, and the second those that 1-3 defeat against England, he missed. Only in the third and final game of the team of Juan Carlos Lorenzo, he was considered by this, but could not prevent departures after a goalless draw against Hungary. After the World Cup Martín Pando ended his national team career.