Osvaldo Héctor Cruz

Osvaldo Cruz Dress CA Independiente

Osvaldo Héctor Cruz (* May 29, 1931 ) is a former Argentine footballer. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the Football World Cup 1958.

Career

Club career

Osvaldo Cruz began his footballing career in 1951 at CA Independiente in Avellaneda, an industrial suburb of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires. In Independiente he played, among others, along with other Argentine football greats of that time like Ernesto Grillo, José Varacka and David Acevedo. Cruz won a national title during his first time at Independiente 1951-1960. 1960 the team finished in first place in La Liga with two points ahead of CA River Plate from Buenos Aires. After winning the title left Cruz Independiente and Argentina, and Sociedade Esportiva Palmeiras joined from the Brazilian metropolis of São Paulo. He remained there only a year, but also won a national championship, as the Taça Brasil in 1960 Palmeiras won the final against Fortaleza EC. After that he went for a short time again to Independiente back, but changed just a year later to Unión Española in Chile's capital Santiago. There he settled without winning another title, end his active career until 1964.

National

In the Argentine national football team, it brought Osvaldo Cruz 1953-1958 on 21 missions in which he succeeded three goals, which means a rather meager yield for an attacker. From Argentina coach Guillermo Stábile he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1958 in Sweden. In the tournament, he came in two of the three games of Argentina used. He played in both the 1:6 defeat against Czechoslovakia and in the 1-3 defeat against Germany in the Argentinian team, but could not score a goal. Overall, the Argentine team disappointed at the World Cup, because after the first round different from you. Previously Osvaldo Cruz had already taken part in the South American Championships in 1955 in Chile and 1957 in Peru. On both occasions, Argentina, the winning team. At the Copa America in 1955 one was prior to first host Chile in 1957 against Brazil.