Juan Simón
Ernesto Juan Simón ( born March 2, 1960 in Rosario ) is a former Argentine footballer who was active among others in France and with the national team of his native country in 1990 Vice World Champion.
Career
Club career
Juan Simón began playing football at the club CA Newell 's Old Boys in his hometown of Rosario. In the club Simón, who acted in the position of a defender, worked seven years to 1983. With Newell's Old Boys, where he played, among others, along with other Argentine football greats of the era such as Sergio Omar Almirón, Santiago Santamaría Américo Gallego or, Simón did not win a championship, despite the good former team. In 1983, he left after 211 league games and scored after his hometown club and went to France for AS Monaco. Was also here allow any great successes, only the victory in the French Cup in the 1984/85 season, as in the final Paris SG defeated, is worth mentioning. Overall, Juan Simón made 73 games for the Monegasque before moving to Racing Strasbourg in 1987. Here he was able to prevail and came to a total of fifty-nine inserts and two goals within two years. Nevertheless, Juan Simón left Strasbourg in 1988. He now returned to Argentina and signed a contract with Boca Juniors, with whom he had at last really successful. In 1989 they won first Recopa Sudamericana both the and the Supercopa Sudamericana, 1992, the Copa Masters de Supercopa and 1993 Copa de Oro Nicolás Leoz. In addition, Simon was with the Boca Juniors in the league operating successfully. In the Apertura 1992 they won the Argentine championship with a first place in the table with four points ahead of CA River Plate. In the following Clausura but you just landed in seventh place, while CA Velez Sarsfield champion. Also in the next few years came for Juan Simón no further league titles added to the Boca Juniors. He finished his career in 1994 at the age of 34 years, after he had for the Boca Juniors 168 league games, but without scoring single, contested in seven years.
National
The National team career of Juan Simón began at youth level. He belonged to the Argentine team that knew at the Junior World Cup in 1979 and to convince there. Under the guidance of legendary coach César Luis Menotti and later with world stars such as Diego Maradona, Ramon Diaz and Gabriel Calderon in the Argentine team selection reached the final, where they met the Olympic Stadium in Tokyo on the Soviet Union. 52,000 spectators Argentina turned the meantime residue with three goals and secured with a 3-1 victory the Junior World Championship title. Juan Simón was used in every tournament game, he even managed to score a goal. Overall, he played eleven times for Argentina's youth team team.
In the first year after the Junior World Championship saw Juan Simón his first appearance in the right team. He could Menotti but not convincing and was not nominated for the FIFA World Cup 1982 in Spain. Following the resignation of Menotti after the World Cup Simón initially found even in his successor Carlos Bilardo little attention, even the football World Cup 1986 in Mexico, where Argentina for the second time world champion, he missed. Only four years later, at the World Championships in Italy in 1990, he was in the squad of Argentina. As a regular player with game time over the full ninety minutes in every tournament game, he was integral part of the Argentine team, which met on 8 July 1990 in the final edition of 1986 to Germany. In contrast with 1986, Argentina presented but this time the losing team, Germany won by a penalty from Andreas Brehme in the 85th minute and was 1-0 for the third time Football World champions.
Achievements
- Junior World Champion: 1x (1979 )
- Argentine Championship: 1x ( Apertura 1992)
- Recopa Sudamericana: 1x (1989 )
- Super Copa Sudamericana: 1x (1989 )
- Copa Masters de Supercopa: 1x (1992 )
- Copa de Oro Nicolás Leoz: 1x (1993 )
- French Cup: 1x (1985 )