Enrique Wolff
Wolff at Racing Club
Enrique Ernesto Wolff ( born February 21, 1949 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine footballer. Substations with Racing Club and River Plate he was active for Real Madrid in Spain and won here twice the championship. Furthermore, Wolff participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1974 in Germany.
Career
Club career
Enrique Wolff, born in 1949 in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, began playing football with Racing Club in Avellaneda, an industrial suburb of the capital. The defender came right after the biggest success in club history of the Racing Club, winning the Copa Libertadores in 1967, in the professional department before. So he was a few months later at it, as Celtic Glasgow was defeated in the match for the World Cup 1-0 in the replay. To use the 18 -year-old Wolff did not come here. The winning yet another title was Enrique Wolff, however, not granted in the jersey of Racing Club. He was still playing for the club until 1972 and made a total of 165 league games with 31 Torerfolgen. But it would take until 2001 until the Racing Club could bring an Argentine league title again.
Wolff went to the 1973 season to CA River Plate. But even here, he caught just a phase of Club history that was less successful. In the years 1973 and 1974 each title wins were missed, only in the first year after Wolff's departure from the Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti River Plate was the first time since 1957 again win the championship. Enrique Wolff but moved to Spain in 1974 to UD Las Palmas, where he stood until 1977 under contract and in that time 93 league games completed with seven goals. After the relegation in the highest Spanish football league was just made only in the first two seasons, UD Las Palmas succeeded in the 1976/77 season as a big surprise. The team of coach Roque Olsen and with players such as Miguel Brindisi, Daniel Carnevali or Carlos Morete, otherwise all Argentines occupied after the end of all game day in fourth place in the Primera División, reaching the best finish ever in the club's history along with subsequent European Cup qualification.
Enrique Wolff moved in the strong season at Las Palmas to the attention of Real Madrid, of which he was obliged in 1977. The two years in Madrid were the most successful of his career for Wolff. Twice a series you could win the Spanish football championship 1977/78 it was the first with six points ahead of FC Barcelona, a year later, Sporting Gijon was referred with four points to second place. Although Enrique Wolff was absolute key players in the team of Real Madrid, he left the club in the summer of 1979. For half a year he now went back to Argentina to Argentinos Juniors, where he played, among other things on the side of the young Diego Maradona. After a two year hiatus, Wolff was 1981 again for seven games at CA Tigre under contract before he finished his playing career at the age of 32 years final.
National
Between 1972 and 1974 it brought Enrique Wolff on a total of 27 missions in the Argentine national soccer team. Here he managed a score. From National Coach Vladislao Cap he was appointed to the South American squad for the World Cup 1974 in Germany. During the tournament Wolff acted not only as a regular player - it was used in five of the six games of the Argentine team - but even at times as captain when the real Captain Roberto Perfumo not played. In general, the World Cup was not very successful for the team from Argentina. After they had survived the first group stage only on goal difference compared to Italy, you failed in the second group stage with only one draw and two defeats from three games as a group last.
Achievements
- World Cup: 1x
- Spanish Championship: 2x