Oscar Alberto Ortiz
Oscar Ortiz
Oscar Alberto Ortiz ( born April 8, 1953 in Chacabuco ) 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
Oscar Ortiz began his footballing career in 1971 at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in Buenos Aires, capital of Argentina. There were playing at that time, other Argentine football greats such as Rubén Ayala, Jorge Ricardo La Volpe or Olguín. CA San Lorenzo won Oscar Ortiz total of three Argentine championships, the 1972 season (Nacional) was finished even without a single defeat. In the same year, San Lorenzo de Almagro also won the Metropolitano season, where to six points garnered first place ahead of Racing Club Avellaneda. The title then was assured by the Nacional in the final with a 1-0 victory against River Plate. His third championship with the club, which plays its home games at the Estadio El Gasómetro, took Oscar Ortiz 1974 at Nacional, as it was first with a point ahead of Rosario Central. After five years at CA San Lorenzo de Almagro Oscar Ortiz moved to Brazil to Gremio to leave the club after just one season as a striker and a tremendously bad Torquoten by any goal in 19 games again. Now, Ortiz went to CA River Plate, the Nobel club from Buenos Aires. There he played together with, among others, Leopoldo Luque, Ubaldo Fillol and Daniel Passarella and won with River Plate in four years five titles, namely Metropolitano 1977, 1979 and 1980 and Nacional in 1979 and 1981. In the latter year, Oscar Ortiz CA River Plate left and joined the city rivals CA Huracán, from where he moved to CA Independiente after another season and in 1983 his footballing career ended, with Independiente in his last season but once again won a championship.
National
In the Argentine national football team, it brought Oscar Ortiz between 1975 and 1979 to 23 events in which three goals get him. With the national team of his native country Ortiz took to the soccer World Cup 1978 in part in their own country. The team of coach César Luis Menotti Ortiz came in six games of the Argentines used, but not quite able to score. The only game in which Oscar Ortiz was not used, was the first game of the Argentinians, the 2-1 victory over Hungary. In the other games, first in the group stage in the 2-1 against France and the 0-1 against Italy as well as in the final round with victories over Poland ( 2-0) and Peru ( 6-0 ) and the draw against Brazil (0: 0) it was used by Menotti. Also in the final at the Estadio Monumental, the stadium of his former club River Plate, against the Netherlands was Oscar Ortiz in Argentina's starting lineup, but has been replaced in 74 minutes with the score at 1-0 for his team by Rene Houseman. At the end of Argentina won 3-1 after extra time, after the Netherlands had yet come to balance shortly before the end of normal time. One year later, Oscar Ortiz completed his last international match.