Nelson López

Nelson Juan López (born 24 June 1941 in Argentina ) is a former Argentine football player, who participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1966.

Career

Nelson López, born in 1941, began playing football at CA River Plate in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. In 1961 he was taken there in the first team of the Argentine Nobel association. However, in a team led by stars like Ermindo Onega, Amadeo Carrizo and José Varacka to López could not prevail, and made just seven league games in La Liga season 1961. Subsequently, he moved in 1962 to league rivals Rosario Central, where, however, he was hardly the course and also made ​​only two league games and after only one year in the third largest city of Argentina to Brazil went to SC Internacional of Porto Alegre. The association, which did not count at the time of the really big clubs in Brazilian football, he played football for a year.

1964 López returned back to Argentina and joined the first division Banfield in Buenos Aires. At Banfield, the most in the middle of the Argentine Primera stayed División, he became a regular player and was in Banfield interesting during his time for national coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo, for the FIFA World Cup 1966 appointed him to the levy of the Argentine national football team in England. During the tournament Nelson López was not used. Meanwhile, his team reached the second round at the World Championships, where you eliminated against the eventual champions and hosts England. After the FIFA World Cup 1966 Nelson López continued to play for the national team of his native country, he clocked up five matches, a scoring remained denied him here.

His national period ended in 1968. During the same year he moved, now 27 years old, to CA Huracán, also located in Buenos Aires. In the smaller club that a short time later by César Luis Menotti to the first and to date only championship in their history should be performed, López played until 1970 in the lower middle of the Primera División. After that, he still played a season for San Lorenzo de Mar del Plata in unterklassigen range of Argentine football.