Oscar Más

Óscar Antonio " Pinino " Mas Magallanes ( born October 29, 1946 in Villa Ballester ) is a former Argentine footballer.

Career

Club career

Óscar Mas played most of his footballing career at CA River Plate in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. From 1964 to 1973 and from 1974 to 1977 he made ​​a total of 382 league games in the Primera División Argentina's highest league in football, and scored in 198 matches. This makes it the second highest scorer in the club's history, only Ángel Labruna was even more successful with 293 league goals. With River Plate, where he played, among others, along with other Argentine football greats of the era such as Ubaldo Fillol, Norberto Alonso or Ermindo Onega, Mas twice won the Argentine championship. 1975, both the National and the Metropolitano Competition was won. Five years earlier, in 1970, Mas, who acted on the position of an attacker who already scorer in the Primera División in the Metropolitano Competition has become. He succeeded in 1973 a second time. In 1970 he also shot the most goals in the Copa Libertadores, the most important competition for club teams in South America, while River failed in the semifinals to eventual winners Estudiantes de La Plata. Throughout his career, Óscar Mas could never win the Copa Libertadores, Rivers first Libertadores title dates only from the year 1986, when mass had just ended his career.

In addition to his involvement with River Plate Óscar Mas was also a year in Europe working with the Spanish club Real Madrid Nobel. In the Primera División in Spain in 1973/74 was only achieved an eighth place and winning the cup, while the eternal rivals FC Barcelona won the championship. Mas was used in twenty-four league games and came to eleven goals. After the end of the 1973/74 season he went back to River Plate. After his second farewell to River 1977 Mas playing for América de Cali in Colombia and some local clubs such as Argentine Quilmes AC where he stood in 1979 in the first year after their first championship under contract, but made only seven games, Defensores de Belgrano or CA Sarmiento. However, large successes could not be celebrated. 1985 ended Óscar Mas his active career at the age of 39 years in the jersey of Huracán Las Heras.

National

Óscar Mas was used from 1965 to 1972 in 37 international matches of the Argentine national football team, where he scored ten Torerfolge. From Argentina's coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo, the striker was in the squad for the World Cup 1966 in England. In the course of the tournament Mas was used in all four games of his team in goals, he did not though. The Argentine team was second in the Group 2 behind Germany and ahead of Spain and Switzerland, and finally failed in the quarterfinals, a second round there was not then, at the eventual champions and hosts England. The following year, Óscar Mas took the national team of his native country at the Campeonato Sudamericano 1967 in Uruguay in part and finished second behind the host.

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