Ramón Heredia

Ramón Armando Heredia Ruarte ( born February 26, 1951 in Córdoba ) is a former Argentine footballer. At club level with CA San Lorenzo de Almagro, and then also very successful at the Spanish club Atlético Madrid, he took with the national team of his native country further also at the Football World Cup 1974 in Germany part.

Career

Club career

Ramón Heredia, born in 1951 in Argentina's second largest city of Córdoba, began playing football in Buenos Aires at the club San Lorenzo de Almagro, where in 1969 he passed the entrance to the first team. For San Lorenzo Heredia played in sequence to 1973 in 119 league games, in which the defender or defensive midfielder scored nine ten hits. He was part of the team of San Lorenzo to players such as Roberto Telch, Rubén Ayala or Rodolfo Fischer, the Argentine football champion twice in 1972. Both in the Torneo Metropolitano in the Torneo Nacional as well as one could prevail.

In the summer of 1973 left Ramón Heredia CA San Lorenzo de Almagro after four very successful years and certainly made ​​the jump to Europe. He signed a contract with the Spanish side Atlético Madrid. Atlético had just become Spanish champions last season under the Austrian coach Max Merkel, reaching in the first year Ramón Heredia at the Estadio Vicente Calderón under the new, Argentina, coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo and with players such as goalkeeper Miguel Reina, defender Adelardo Rodríguez or attacker José Eulogio Garate the final of the European champions Cup. Having previously succession Galatasaray from Turkey, Dinamo Bucharest Romania, Yugoslavia and Red Star Belgrade from Celtic Glasgow Scotland were defeated, but they ultimately failed in the final on the German side FC Bayern München 0:4 in the replay after the actual finale had ended with 1:1 after extra time. Since the FC Bayern but decided not to participate in the World Cup, Atlético had the opportunity yet to play as Final loser to the World Cup. Here they met the winner of the Copa Libertadores in 1974, Independiente Avellaneda. With 0:1 in Argentina and 2-0 in Madrid, the team of Luis Aragonés sat by us could be the crown of World Cup winner put.

Also in the following years at Atletico Madrid Ramón Heredia acted very successful. First succeeded in the 1975/76 season with a 1-0 final win against Real Zaragoza 's victory in the Spanish Cup competition, the Copa del Rey. A year later, they showed themselves very successful in league play and stood in the Primera División 1976/77 at the end of all game days on the first place in the standings with one point ahead of FC Barcelona. This time, however, you had to admit defeat in the subsequent European Champion Clubs' Cup in the quarter- finals of the Belgian side FC Bruges.

Ramón Heredia left Atlético Madrid in the summer of 1977, right after the successful championship. He went to France to join the club was founded only seven years earlier Paris SG to join. In two years in Division 1, which always ended with placements in the midfield, but failed Heredia, to claim a regular place permanently. In the summer of 1979 he finished his footballing career then at the age of just 28 years. Later Ramón Heredia was still active as a coach at various clubs, then in 1993 for a short time at his old club Atletico Madrid.

National

Between 1971 and 1974 it brought Enrique Wolff on a total of 30 missions in the Argentine national soccer team. Here he succeeded in two Torerfolge. From National Coach Vladislao Cap he was appointed to the South American squad for the World Cup 1974 in Germany. During the tournament the midfielder of Atletico Madrid was the undisputed master player and completed every tournament game of his team over the whole season. But even he could not prevent the Argentine team in the final round was eliminated in just as surviving the group stage as Table behind the Netherlands, Brazil and East Germany with only one draw and two defeats.

Achievements

  • Argentine Championship: 2x
  • Spanish Championship: 1x
  • Spanish Cup winner: 1x
  • World Cup: 1x
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