Omar Oreste Corbatta
Omar Corbatta
Omar Oreste Corbatta ( born March 11, 1936 in La Plata, † November 6, 1991 ) was an Argentine footballer. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the Football World Cup 1958.
Career
Club career
Omar started his footballing career Corbatta in 1955, the Racing Club of Avellaneda, an industrial suburb of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. The Racing Club, where he played, among others, along with other Argentine football greats of that time like Humberto Maschio, Pedro Dellacha and Rubén Héctor Sosa, Corbatta twice won the Argentine soccer championship during his time at the club. 1958 occupied the Racing Club in the table after the last matchday first place with three points ahead of the Boca Juniors from Buenos Aires. Three years later, the second title win for Corbatta came with the Racing Club, as it was first in La Liga with seven points against San Lorenzo de Almagro. A year later, in 1962, Omar Corbatta Racing Club left after eight years and 177 games ( 72 goals ) and the Boca Juniors joined them. Here he came, although only sporadically inserts, but won in his four years at Boca twice the Argentine football championship, but usually only as a reserve player. In 1965 he moved again and went to the club Independiente Santa Fe in Colombia, where he played from 1965 to 1968 football without winning a national championship. In 1970, he played one season with the club unterklassigen CA San Telmo, where he again graduated 33 games. In 1971 he ended his active career at Unidos Italia, also a unterklassigen club. 1973 Corbatta returned once to the football field and played another year for CA Tiro Federal, at that time not to be found in the top leagues.
National
Omar Corbatta completed 1956-1962 43 games for the Argentina national football team, where reach eighteen gates to him. He stood in the squad of the Argentinean team for the Football World Cup 1958 in Sweden. In qualifying he had scored three of the ten Argentinean hit. At the tournament in Scandinavia Corbatta was used in all three games of his team. In every game he scored a goal, two goals were scored from the penalty spot. But the gates of Omar Corbatta could the early elimination of the Argentine team, which finished the preliminary round as Table behind defending champion Germany, Northern Ireland and Czechoslovakia, not prevent it. He managed just one win ( 3-1 against Northern Ireland ), while two games were lost. Corbattas time in the national team lasted until 1962. In the qualification Corbatta scored twice from the penalty spot. When he was not nominated by the new national coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo, who had inherited Guillermo Stábile for the Football World Cup 1962, he ended his international career.
Later years
After the end of his active career retired Omar Corbatta from football business. He later lived in a small apartment at the Estadio Presidente Perón, the stadium of Racing Club. In 1991 Corbatta died in La Plata at the age of 55 years to cancer of the larynx. In his honor, was designed by the architect Daniel Zimermann a statue of Omar Corbatta located in Avellaneda. In addition, a street is named in the suburbs of Buenos Aires after the famous players of Racing Club. Corbatta was also recorded in 2006 on the occasion of its fifteenth anniversary of the death in the Hall of Fame Racing Club.