Norberto Alonso

Norberto Alonso

Norberto Osvaldo Alonso ( born January 4, 1953 in Vicente López ) is a former Argentine football player, who at the Football World Cup 1978 took part with the national team of his native land and there won the title.

Career

Club career

Norberto Alonso began his footballing career in 1970 at CA River Plate, the club of the rich in Buenos Aires. He himself, however, was raised in a poor district of the city, after he had moved with his parents as a child from Vicente López, Buenos Aires. His first league title with River Plate Alonso could celebrate in the year 1975, when the team coached by Ángel Labruna, once part of the famous La Máquina River Plate in the fifties, the first place went before CA Huracán. After winning the Metropolitano championship succeeded in the same year also the title in the National Competition, where one was first to suggest Estudiantes de La Plata. Norberto Alonso acted in the title wins as captain and playmaker River Plate. Despite its leading role in the team he left Buenos Aires in 1976 and moved to France to Marseille. There he brought it but only on 17 missions and after only one year he went back to River Plate. At River Plate is now a team had been formed, who won a number of national championships in the following years. Members of this team were next to Alonso also Daniel Passarella, the captain of the world champion team of 1978, goalkeeper Ubaldo Fillol and defender Roberto Perfumo. By 1981, Norberto Alonso won with River Plate five times the Argentine championship. In 1981 he left River Plate again and this time went to city rivals CA Velez Sarsfield, where he 73 games in the Primera División completed in two years and in 1983 returned to his old club, where Alonso to 1987 was end his career. In this four years, he took another three championships with River Plate. After he had ended his active career in 1987, he took over in 1989 for a short time the post of coach at River Plate.

National

In the Argentine national football team brought it Norberto Alonso 1978-1983 to 15 applications where reach four goals to him. He took with Argentina at the FIFA World Cup 1978 part in their own country. Actually, he was not provided for by national coach César Luis Menotti for the squad, but under pressure from General Carlos Alberto Lacoste, a senior member of the military junta, prescribing a certain number of players from River Plate for the World Cup, the coach Alonso had to nominate. In the tournament, he came, however, only a few minutes of use, as to its position at first José Daniel Valencia and later Mario Kempes, top scorer with six goals were the World Cup set. Norberto Alonso was wearing at the World Cup, the jersey with the number 1, even though he was a midfielder and this number is usually reserved for the goalkeeper. This condition was because the Argentines her team alphabetically numbered and Alonso came here first. In 1983 he was still used several times by the new coach Carlos Bilardo, before this put more on young players such as Diego Maradona and Jorge Burruchaga on Alonso's position.