Raúl Páez

Raúl Alberto Páez ( born May 26, 1937 in Córdoba, Argentina ) is a former Argentine footballer, who spent most of his career at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro and participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1962.

Career

Club career

Raúl Páez, born in 1937 in the Argentine city of Córdoba, began his career as a football profile in 1958 in San Lorenzo de Almagro, which viewed from a historic point of the third largest club in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. For San Lorenzo de Almagro played Raúl Páez 1958 the following nine years to 1967 and completed in this time 214 league games in the league team of the club. The defender scored three goals during this time. As a player of CA San Lorenzo de Almagro Raúl Páez won a total once the Argentine football championship. The 1959 season was finished in first place with seven points clear of second-placed Racing Club Avellaneda Partido of the. As Argentine champion in 1959 it was allowed to start for the Copa Libertadores 1960, the first competition of its kind in South America, at that time still under the old name Copa Campeones de América '. In the tournament Raúl Páez failed with the team of coach José Barreiro only in the semi-final replay against the Uruguayan representative and later first Copa Libertadores winner Penarol, having previously been defeated EC Bahia from Brazil. As a result, failed to qualify again for the Copa Libertadores Raúl Páez San Lorenzo. At the national level could not build on the achievements of the championship season in 1959 shown you. Only in 1968, the first year after Páez ' Farewell, San Lorenzo de Almagro took back the Argentine championship.

In the same year Raúl Páez ended his active career as a football player after for Quilmes AC he stood on the field in 1968 for a further year.

National

In 1962 it brought Raúl Páez three matches in the Argentine national soccer team. Two of those three games, he completed during the football World Cup in Chile in 1962. In the first two tournament games the team of coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo Páez was used by it in the defense of Argentina's team. Only the third and final group match, which sealed the resignation of Argentina national team, missed Páez. After the World Cup he made nurmehr a single international match, but remained as in the previous two competitions countries without getting hit.