Norberto Menéndez
Norberto Menéndez
Norberto Menéndez ( born December 14, 1936 in Buenos Aires, † May 26, 1994 ) was an Argentine footballer. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the Football World Cup 1958.
Career
Club career
Norberto Menéndez began his footballing career in 1954 at CA River Plate, the Nobel club of Argentina from Buenos Aires. In a team with other Argentine football greats of the time as Ángel Labruna Félix Loustau, Amadeo Carrizo or José Ramos Delgado Menéndez won his first Argentine football championship in his second season at River Plate in 1955, when the club took first place in La Liga seven points clear area occupied on the Racing Club of Avellaneda. In the two years it twice managed to defend the title, River Plate was ranked after the last game in the first place before Lanus or CA San Lorenzo de Almagro. The 1958 season ended for River Plate with a fifth, won the championship of the Racing Club. In 1960, Norberto Menéndez River Plate and joined CA Huracán, also from Buenos Aires to. After a year and only sixteen games for Huracán in 1962 he joined Boca Juniors, the great rivals of his former club River Plate, at. With Boca, he won three more national titles. In a team, among others, with Antonio Roma, Silvio Marzolini and Antonio Rattín Menéndez won his first championship with Boca in 1962, when we took first place with two points against River Plate in the table. 1964 and 1965 he was with the Boca Juniors champion again, in these two years was allowed CA Independiente and River Plate again behind him. Norberto Menéndez remained until the year 1967 at the Boca Juniors, before moving to CA Colon to Santa Fe to switch after just one year and twelve games for the club to Uruguay to Defensor Sporting Club. The jersey of the club from Montevideo Menéndez ended his active career in 1971 at age 35.
National
In the Argentine national football team Norberto Menéndez was used in the years 1957 and 1958 fourteen times. From Argentina coach Guillermo Stábile he was called to the squad for the World Cup 1958 in Sweden. In the World Cup qualifiers he scored three of the ten Argentinean hit. In the tournament, he was used in all three games of his team 's 3-1 victory in the second group match against Northern Ireland even a hit for temporarily succeeded 2:1 in the 55th minute. Four minutes later turned Ludovico Avio with his goal to make it 3-1 the final score ago, after previously Omar Corbatta had equalized for Argentina, the initial leadership of the Northern Irishman by Peter McParland. The success against Northern Ireland, however, remained the only one for Argentina in the World Cup, in the other two group matches, one went as losers from the square. Against the defending champions Germany, it stood at the end of 1:3 against Czechoslovakia even 1:6, which was the last place is in the group 1.