Oscar Rossi
Oscar Pablo Rossi ( born July 27, 1930 in Buenos Aires, † September 6, 2012 ) was an Argentine football player and coach. During his playing career he played for CA Huracán, CA San Lorenzo de Almagro and Atlético Nacional and took the national team of his native country participates in the Football World Cup 1962.
Career
Club career
Oscar was born in Parque Patricios Rossi, an eastern district of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. Here he also began playing football at the football club CA Huracán. For the association, which was División 1930 founding member of the Argentine Primera, but to this day champion once, Rossi played at the beginning of his career from 1950 to 1953, then again from 1955 to 1959 and 1969 to his career finale. A league title could Rossi despite his many years, he was staying at the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Duco, not win. Total Oscar Rossi made for Huracán 165 league games in La Liga, scoring 43 goals.
In addition to CA Huracán Oscar Rossi also played for, among others, CA San Lorenzo de Almagro where he stood from 1960 to 1964 under contract. But even with San Lorenzo the midfielder was winning the Argentine Football Championship denied. In the jersey of San Lorenzo de Almagro it brought Oscar Rossi on 104 league games with 23 goals. Together with José Sanfilippo made Rossi a successful attack series at San Lorenzo, as the biggest success the semi-finals of the Copa Libertadores in 1960, the first of its kind ever had, where you can but in a playoff to eventual winners Penarol of Uruguay
1954 was Oscar Rossi for a year at Racing Club of Avellaneda under contract, but could not with just nine appearances in league play to properly enforce. Another station as an active football player he had in 1967 when the Club Club Almagro, where he came to nine games. A short time before, he had taken the leap abroad and was active for one year in Colombia with Atlético Nacional, where he, however, soon returned to Argentina.
Oscar Rossi ended his active career as a football player in 1969. Nine years later, in 1978, he was appointed coach of the fourth division CA San Miguel, he has coached a year without great success. Then he took no further Trainer Jobs.
National
Between 1956 and 1963 Oscar Rossi came to twenty operations in Argentina's national soccer team. A goal he could not achieve, however. From Argentina coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1962 in Chile. During the tournament Rossi was placed in the first group match his team 's 1-0 win over Bulgaria in attack alongside the winning goal scorers Héctor Facundo. The remaining two games of the Argentine team, the 1-3 against England and 0-0 against Hungary, experienced Oscar Rossi of the spare bank. After these final two group matches, the World Cup for Argentina was finished, it was only third in the group behind Hungary and England, and thus different from.