Pedro Monzón
Pedro Damián Monzón ( born February 23, 1962 in Goya, Argentina ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach. As Active he was active among other things a long time for Independiente Avellaneda and won with the club a few titles. He also took part in the World Cup 1990.
Career
Club career
Pedro Monzón, who was born in 1962 in the provincial town of Goya, began playing football at the club Unión de Santa Fe, where he was from 1980 to 1981 for one year contract, but only got seven appearances in the first team. Still, he was here discovered by scouts of the top club CA Independiente Avellaneda suburb from the bonarenser and guided to the club. In jersey Independiente Monzón spent the next ten years to 1991, his most successful period as a football player. Under coach José Pastoriza and with players such as Néstor Clausen, Jorge Burruchaga or Enzo Trossero they won the Copa Libertadores in 1984 by a playoff victory over Gremio. A little later succeeded against Liverpool and winning the World Cup. However, Pedro Monzón did not seem as regulars to this success story. In the World Cup final he came on in the 74th minute for the game Hugo Villaverde, in the two finals at the Libertadores Cup inserts were denied him.
Total played Pedro Monzón 1981-1991 in 191 league appearances for Independiente Avellaneda, scoring eight goals. For the 1992 season began for him then a series of short exposures to a variety of clubs, but failed to great success. He played for Barcelona SC Guayaquil in Ecuador, in Argentina for CA Huracán Quilmes AC and Atlético Tucumán, in Peru for Alianza Lima and Chile for Santiago Wanderers. The jersey of the Wanderers then ended in 1996 and the footballing career of Pedro Monzón at the age of 34 years.
He then became a coach, but great successes were denied him until today in this function. He coached, among others, the Chacarita Juniors in Argentina, CD Veracruz in Mexico and Club Olmedo in Ecuador. As a coach of Olmedo Monzón made headlines when they locked him after an attack on the referee for two months.
National
Between 1988 and 1990 it brought Pedro Monzón to a total of fifteen matches in the jersey of the Argentine national soccer team. From coach Carlos Bilardo, he was - after he had already taken part in the Summer Olympic Games in 1988 and the Copa América 1989 - appointed to the levy of the South Americans for the Football World Cup 1990 in Italy. During the tournament Monzón was used in about half of the games of the Argentine team, where in the final against Germany. In that final game on July 8, 1990 at the Olympic Stadium of Rome Pedro Monzón was brought on for the second half for Oscar Ruggeri. Twenty minutes after coming off the bench had to leave the place again the defender for a foul on Jürgen Klinsmann and the resulting red card. He was the first player ever has seen in the final of the football World Cup red card. Good twenty minutes followed by a second Argentine player with Gustavo Dezotti. Finally, the team of Bilardo went into the final as losers from the square and could not defend the title won in 1986.
Achievements
- Argentine Championship: 2x
- Copa Libertadores: 1x
- World Cup: 1x