Alberto Sainz

Alberto Carlos Sainz ( born December 13, 1937) is a former Argentine footballer. He played for Argentinos Juniors and CA River Plate and participated with the Argentine national football team at the FIFA World Cup 1962.

Career

Club career

Alberto Sainz began playing football in 1959 with Argentinos Juniors, one at the time rather unsuccessful first division of the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires. For the association Alberto Sainz graduated in three years from 1959 to 1961 72 league games in the Primera División, a scoring remained the defender but denied. The services shown in the jersey of the Juniors did other clubs aware of the talented defender. So it was that he moved in the winter of 1962 to Argentine Nobel CA River Plate club, but where he was part of one of the relatively unsuccessful River Plate teams in the club's history of the championship record of Argentina. He managed not a single title during the time of Alberto Sainz at the Estadio Monumental. The greatest success of that time was reaching the final of the Copa Libertadores in 1966 where the team around players like goalkeeper Amadeo Carrizo, midfielder Luis Cubilla or attacker Juan Carlos Sarnari failed after extension on the Uruguayan representative Peñarol Montevideo until the replay with 2:4. Alberto Sainz was used by Rivers coach Renato Cesarini in all three finals and was also throughout the rest of the tournament course an important part of the team. Despite his role as a regular force in the team of River Plate Alberto Sainz left the club in 1967 with thirty years and after 151 league games with a hit. He went to San Lorenzo to Mar del Plata, where he end his active career as a football player in the next two years and still came up with fourteen missions in league play.

National

Between 1961 and 1966 it brought Alberto Sainz six matches in the Argentine national soccer team. From coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo, he was nominated to the levy of the South Americans for the Football World Cup 1962 in neighboring Chile. During the tournament Lorenzo began the defender of River Plate in the first and in the last group match. Both the 1-0 victory against World Cup newcomer Bulgaria and goalless draw against Hungary Alberto Sainz had its share of gegentorlosen game of the Argentinean team. However, the only defeat, the 1-3 against England, he missed. The performance shown was not sufficient for the Argentine team to qualify for the quarter-finals, which also represented the end of the KM activities of Alberto Sainz. Despite the fact that he was active in the national team until 1966, he was not considered by Lorenzo for the Football World Cup 1966 in England.