Omar Larrosa

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Omar Ruben Larrosa ( born November 18, 1947 in Lanús ) is a former Argentine football player, who participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup in 1978 and it won the title.

Career

Club career

Omar Larrosa started his footballing career at Boca Juniors in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. After only a few games left in Boca Larrosa, who came from Lanús, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, the club and joined the Argentinos Juniors, also from the capital, at. After a year at the Argentinos Juniors in 1970, he returned to his old club back. With Boca Juniors Omar Larrosa 1970 won his first championship in Argentina, in the final of the competition against Nacional Rosario Central he was not used. After this season Larrosa moved to Guatemala to CSD Comunicaciones, from where he returned after a further year to Buenos Aires and played from then on for CA Huracán. In his second season with Huracán where he played, among others, along with Alfio Basile and Miguel Brindisi, Larrosa won his second Argentine football championship, winning the Metropolitanowettbewerbs 1973 is still the only title of CA Huracán. Overall, Omar Larrosa remained until 1976 when Huracán, before he CA Independiente Avellaneda from, an industrial suburb of Buenos Aires joined. With Independiente, which at that time was the best teams in South America, Larrosa went on to score two titles. In 1977 he was on the side of players like Ricardo Bochini, Enzo Trossero or Daniel Bertoni champion Nacional before CA Talleres de Córdoba, in 1978 they won this competition again, this time against CA River Plate. 1980 ended Larrosas commitment at Independiente, and he went to CA Velez Sarsfield. After one year there he moved to San Lorenzo de Almagro, where in 1981 he ended his career. His last season ended División with the initial descent of San Lorenzo of the Primera. After he had then adopted for a long time out of the business of football, he became in 2010 assistant at his old club Boca Juniors.

National

In the Argentine national soccer team Omar Larrosa completed 1977-1978 eleven internationals. From Argentina coach César Luis Menotti, he was nominated to the levy of the South Americans for the Football World Cup 1978 in their own country. In a team with stars like Mario Kempes, Daniel Passarella, Osvaldo Ardiles and Larrosa but rather had the role of reservists. It was used only in two games. His first game in the tournament was the 6-0 against Peru in the second round where he stood the entire season on the court. In the final against the Netherlands at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires, he was employed for the second time. In the 65 minutes he replaced the score of 1-0 to Argentina for Ardiles. At the end of the Argentines won 3-1 after extra after Dick Nanninga equalized had the lead through Kempes in the 82nd minute. In the extension then once more drove Kempes and Daniel Bertoni for the victory of the hosts, who won the World Cup for the first time were.