AgustÃn Balbuena
Agustín Alberto Balbuena ( born September 1, 1945 in Santa Fe ) is a former Argentine footballer. At club level, among others, with CA Independiente very successful, he took part in the Football World Cup 1974 in Germany with the national team of his native country.
Career
Club career
Agustín Balbuena began his footballing career in 1964 with Colón de Santa Fe in his hometown. Belonging for Colón, at that time not the highest Argentine league, Balbuena was for five years until 1969 under contract, and came at this time to 114 league games in which he scored 22 Torerfolge.
After a one-year spell at Rosario Central where Balbuena was 1970 runner-up in the National League and a total of twenty games made by one goal, began the most successful part of Agustín Balbuensas playing career. He played from 1971 to 1975 for four years in attack Independiente Avellaneda and was instrumental in the fact that the club this time once the championship, four times the Copa Libertadores and once won the World Cup from the bonarenser suburb Avalleneda. After the Metropolitano championship in 1971, at the initial stage of the Copa Libertadores in 1972 by, as in the final of the Peruvian representative Universitario de Deportes 2-1 after return game was defeated. In the following game for the World Cup is still defeated Ajax by Johan Cruyff with 1:1 and 0:3. After they had also prevailed in the Copa Libertadores 1973 - this time with a 2-1 win in extra time of the decision game against Colo -Colo Santiago, Chile - could the team of coach Roberto Ferreiro, in which, among other players such as Ricardo Pavoni, Daniel Bertoni and the Francisco Sá played, even with a 1-0 win against Juventus this time the world Cup. The following year, it was again in the game for this trophy, but was defeated Atlético Madrid. Previously you had won against FC São Paulo again again until playoff for the third time in a row the Copa Libertadores. The same managed Independiente even 1975 in the final against Unión Española, again only after decider. To date, these four Copa Libertadores victories in a row uneingeholter record in South American football as in world football.
After the Libertadores victory in 1975 left Agustín Balbuena Independiente Avellaneda and joined the Racing Club, arch-rival of his old club, where he acted for a year in attack and this time nineteen top-flight made three goals. After that he went to Colombia to Atlético Bucaramanga, to end his career there and at CD FAS in El Salvador. In FAS Agustín Balbuena finished his footballing career in 1978 at the age of 33 years.
National
In 1974, Agustín Balbuena came to a total of eight missions in Argentina's national soccer team. In this case, no scoring he succeeded. From coach Vladislao Cap he was appointed to the South American squad for the World Cup 1974 in Germany. The tournament played Balbuena, which was set up because of Cap more than midfielder as an attacker, quite as ordinary force and made four tournament games, which represents half of his matches. But Balbuena could not prevent that the Argentine team was eliminated in extremely average performance in the second final round, after one has been in Group A Last behind the Netherlands, Brazil and the German Democratic Republic.
Achievements
- World Cup: 1x
- Copa Libertadores: 4x
- Argentine Championship: 1x