Rafael Albrecht

José Albrecht ( 1968)

José Rafael Albrecht ( born August 23, 1941 in San Miguel de Tucumán ) is a retired Argentine footballer, who participated with the national team of his native country at the FIFA World Cups in 1962 and 1966.

Career

Club career

José Albrecht, born in 1941 in San Miguel de Tucumán, the capital of the Argentine province of Tucumán, his footballing career started in 1960 with Estudiantes de La Plata. He played two years at the beginning of the sixties rather unsuccessful provincial club before he moved to Argentina's capital Buenos Aires to seventy games and no goal for the later four -time winner of the Copa Libertadores to San Lorenzo de Almagro. In San Lorenzo, he spent much of his career and made 229 games in league play for the club in the Almagro neighborhood. CA San Lorenzo de Almagro, where he played, among other things, along with other Argentine football greats of the era such as Roberto Telch, Rubén Ayala or Rodolfo Fischer, Albrecht won in 1968, the Argentine Football Championship after the Campionato Metropolitano Estudiantes de La Plata in the final was defeated 2-1. In this championship win succeeded CA San Lorenzo de Almagro, losing not a single League game. The championship of 1968 was the one for José Albrecht, he left San Lorenzo two years later after 229 games and 56 goals, a remarkable rate for a defender, the club and joined the Club León from Mexico. With the club from Leon, he won in 1971 and 1972, twice the Copa Mexico and, in 1971 the Mexican Supercup. He played a total of 293 games in the Mexican league play for the club, for which he was active from 1970 to 1974. In the latter year went to Albrecht CF Atlas, where he end his career from 1974 to 1975.

Throughout his career, José Albrecht made ​​506 league appearances in Argentina and Mexico and scored 95 goals, giving him seventh place in the list of highest-scoring defender, led by the International Federation of Football History & Statistics earned.

National

José Albrecht was used 1961-1969 39 times in the Argentine national soccer team. He succeeded in attaining this three gates. From coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo he was appointed to the Argentine squad for the FIFA World Cup 1962 in Chile. However, he was not used in the final round, while the Argentine team failed after the first round. Four years later he was again in the squad for the World Cup and this time José Albrecht was also a regular player. He was of Lorenzo in the first two group games against Spain ( 2-1) and Germany (0-0 ) used the third round match against Switzerland, he missed only because of a obtained in the match against Germany the red card. After the lock he was eligible to play for the quarterfinals against hosts England again and made, due to the resignation of his team after the 0-1, his last World Cup game on 23 July 1966 at Villa Park in Birmingham. A third world championship is no longer reached Albrecht, because Argentina could not qualify for the 1970 world tournament in Mexico. He also ended his national team career in 1969.