JoaquÃn Peiró
Joaquín Peiró Lucas ( born January 29, 1936 in Madrid ) is a former Spanish footballer, who. With the national team of his native country at the World Cup in Chile in 1962 and participated in 1966 in England
Youth
Peiró was born in Madrid. He first played in the suburban clubs Covadonga, Tolosa, Jusa and Ferroviaria before it was even discovered as a teenager by Atletico Madrid. Atletico he graduated in 1955 at the age of 19, his first game in a professional team.
Club career
As players from their own youth Peiró graduated at Atletico 1955-1962 166 league games, in which the fast winger scored 93 goals. Since Atletico was just going to build Enrique Collar and the Brazilian world champion of 1958, EDVAL Izidio Neto, called a Vavá Star team, Peiró lost his place and moved in 1962 to Torino in Italy. After the plane crash of Superga in 1949, when almost the entire championship team last year died at the Italian national player Valentino Mazzola, the once- successful team of the Grande Torino that dominated Italian football in the 1940s had, in the middle of the Serie A fixed. One was staying even in the tenth season after Superga in the B series, but went immediately.
In the two years in Turin Peiró completed 46 games ( 10 goals), before he moved on to Inter Milan in 1964. Here had developed to coach Helenio Herrera, a proponent of Catenaccio, one of the best teams in Europe. Back to stand with die-hard defenders like Tarcisio Burgnich or offensive full-back Giacinto Facchetti and a sweeper in front of the defense as Armando Picchi safe, and world class strikers like Luis Suárez and Sandro Mazzola, incidentally, the son of the legendary Valentino Mazzola were able to it as well, the opponent's defense in need bring. However, it did not make Peiró in his two years at Inter, get past the world stars in attack and brought it during this time only 25 games (8 goals). 1966 moved Peiró then on to AS Roma, where he coped better. In the Roma came in four years 1966-1970 to 103 caps, where he met 21 times in the opponent's goal. The club from the capital of Italy, the Spaniard won the 1969 Coppa Italia. His career ended Peiró, 1970, aged 34, in the dress of the Roma.
National
His first cap for Spain completed Peiró 1956. Previously, he already made a game for Spain's U -23 and five games ( five goals) for the B- team of his home country. In his twelve internationals Peiró met five times on the head. His most important and also the last goal for Spain was the 1-0 at the first round match of the Football World Cup 1962 against Mexico (final score: 1-0). The tournament ended for Spain, which was considered one of the favorites after it had former stars such as the ex- Hungarian Ferenc Puskás or the ex- Argentine Alfredo Di Stéfano in the ranks, in the preliminary round.
1966 saw Peiró his second World Cup, where he worked in the games against Argentina (1-2) and Switzerland ( 2:1 ) was used, but without scoring a goal. After the 1966 World Cup Peiró ended his career in the National Dress of the Iberians.
Career as a coach
After the end of his active career Peiró acted as coach of numerous teams. So he coached for example, Atletico Madrid, the team with which he was once the Copa del Rey and the European Cup Winners' Cup won, as interim coach (1990). His greatest success as a coach and also single recorded Peiró who also coached FC Granada and Real Murcia 74, 2003, when he won the Intertoto Cup with FC Malaga.