Juan Barbas
Juan Alberto Barbas ( born August 23, 1959 in San Martín ) is a former Argentine footballer. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the World Cup 1982.
Career
Club career
Juan Barbas, born on August 23, 1959 in San Martín ( Buenos Aires ), a city in the Greater Buenos Aires, his footballing career started in 1977, the Racing Club of Avellaneda, an industrial suburb of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. For the Racing Club, he played in six years 132 games in the Primera División, where fourteen gates reach him. In 1982 he moved to Spain and joined Real Zaragoza. The best place in league reached Barbas with Zaragoza in his first season at the club when they finished sixth. Overall, Juan Barbas played 91 league games for Real Zaragoza and scored 19 goals. In 1985 he left the club and joined the southern Italian club U.S. Lecce. In Lecce he played until 1990, five years in the lower table portion of the Serie A football before moving to Switzerland for FC Sion. There, he won his first and only national championship when he the Swiss football championship 1990/91 won with FC Sion by a first place with three points ahead of the Grasshopper Zurich. After the successful season he moved to FC Locarno in Switzerland, which had only just been promoted to the National League. However, it was immediately followed by the re- descent and Barbas went back to Argentina, where he end his career at the clubs CA Huracán, CA Alvarado and CA All Boys. 1997 ended his footballing career Juan Barbas at the age of 38 years. After a few years he was presented in 2009 as a successor to Ricardo Caruso Lombardi as coach of Racing Club. Early as 2010, but he was dismissed and replaced by Miguel Ángel Russo.
National
Juan Barbas was erected between 1979 and 1985 33 times in the Argentine national soccer team. He participated in the Soccer World Cup 1982 in part in Spain, in which the initiated as the defending champion Argentina failed in the second round. At the World Cup Barbas was mostly reserve players, it was used in only two games of his team. In the group match against Hungary ( 4-1 ) moved him coach César Luis Menotti in 51 minutes for Alberto Tarantini a, in the final round match against Brazil (1:3), he was one of the first Elf to Menotti.
At the Junior World Cup in 1979, where he participated with Argentina, the Argentine team won at later world-class players such as Diego Maradona, Gabriel Calderón and Ramón Díaz in the final in front of 52,000 spectators at the Olympic Stadium Tokyo with a 3-1 victory over the Soviet Union and was first Junior World Champion.