Ernesto Grillo
Ernesto Grillo at the Boca Juniors
Ernesto Grillo ( born October 1, 1929 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, † June 18, 1998 ) was an Argentine footballer. In Argentina, for CA Independiente and Boca Juniors CA active, he also played for three years in Italy's Serie A with AC Milan. For the Argentine national football team Grillo ran 21 times.
Career
Club career
Ernesto Grillo, born in 1929 in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, began playing football at the club CA Independiente Avellaneda from, an industrial suburb of his hometown. In 1949 he was admitted there in the first team of the club. At a time when the two big clubs from Avellaneda - Independiente and the rival Racing Club - the decisive teams in the championship race and included 1948 consecutive presented the national champion and 1951 four years Grillo matured at Independiente team regular. Between 1949 and 1957 it brought the attacker to a total of 192 league games in the Primera División, where he succeeded in 90 Torerfolge for his club. However, a champion title did not jump out at this time. Only after Ernesto Grillo's farewell Independiente Avellaneda broke for the club at the first major era of success, which culminated in the two triumphs in the Copa Libertadores in 1964 and 1965.
Ernesto Grillo left Independiente Avellaneda in the summer of 1957. He went to Europe in the Italian Elite League Serie A and joined the local top club and reigning champions AC Milan. Here Grillo followed a trend that was devious in the late fifties a number of South American players, including, for example, his compatriot Omar Sívori, the Brazilian José Altafini or Uruguay's 1950 World Champion Juan Schiaffino to Italy's wealthy top clubs in Milan and Turin. Ernesto Grillo Also, it was able to prevail in the occupied except rounders as Altafini, Nils Liedholm, Cesare Maldini or team of AC Milan and became the master force in the Milan attack. After a relatively weak first season with only ninth place after the end of all game days, the team of coach Giuseppe Viani in Serie A 1958/59 winning the title succeeded by a first rank with three points ahead of Fiorentina. Two years earlier, had one - in 1957/58 qualifies as the reigning champion for the European Champions Cup - reached the final of the Landesmeistercup and met the famous White Ballet of Real Madrid. After it had been after the end of the regular season 2-2 - Ernesto Grillo scored the meantime 2:1 for Milan in the 77th minute - Milan defeated only with a goal by Francisco Gento in the 107th minute match with 2:3.
1960 ended Ernesto Grillo's time at AC Milan, he went back to his home country of Argentina and spent at the Boca Juniors once again a very successful time. In the years 1962, 1964 and 1965 three times the Argentine championship was won. In addition, one reached in the Copa Campeones de América 1963 final and failed only there with 2:3 and 1:2 at the big Santos to Pelé. Ultimately played Ernesto Grillo 1960-1966 for Boca Juniors and came at this time to 88 league games, where he scored eleven goals. After the end of the season 1966 Grillo ended his footballing career at the age of 37 years.
National
Overall, it brought Ernesto Grillo 1952-1958 on 21 missions in the jersey of the Argentine national soccer team. Here he succeeded in eight matches. Apart from participating in the Campeonato Sudamericano 1955 in Chile, which one won, the attacker big tournaments but were denied as a World Cup. The world championship 1958 in Sweden, he also missed the reason, because it was not then welcome to play as Argentines in Europe, had in this case simply little chance of national missions.
Achievements
- Italian Championship: 1x
- Argentine Championship: 3x
- Copa América: 1x