Ricardo Giusti
Ricardo Omar Giusti ( born December 11, 1956 in Arroyo Seco ) is a former Argentine football player, the 1986 Football World Cup was.
Career
Club career
Ricardo Giusti began his footballing career in 1975 at the club CA Newell 's Old Boys in Argentina's third largest city of Rosario. For Newell's Old Boys, he completed 108 games in La Liga, scoring ten goals. In 1978 he left the club and joined the Argentinos Juniors, the club where at the time also played Diego Maradona, to. Here he made 32 league games in two years with two goals and moved to the end of the 1980 season to CA Independiente Avellaneda after. The association, which now, as then record title holder in the Copa Libertadores is or was, Ricardo Giusti had its most successful period as a football player. With Independiente he won in 1983 his first Argentine championship. In Metropolitano competition they finished at the end of season one first place, one point ahead of San Lorenzo de Almagro, after they had still lost the final against Estudiantes de La Plata in the Nacional. A second national title won Giusti with Independiente 1988/89, when you could make the Primera División victorious again. Two years later left Giusti Independiente and switched to Unión de Santa Fe, where he end his playing career from 1991 to 1992. With Independiente he was also successful at the international level. In the Copa Libertadores 1984, the team led by Jorge Burruchaga, Enzo Trossero and Ricardo Bochini moved into the final, where they met the Brazilian representative and defending champion Gremio. After the first leg at the Estádio Olímpico Monumental Porto Alegre was won by a goal from Jorge Burruchaga 1-0, handed Independiente, which is traditionally known for his good defense work, a goalless draw at home in Estadio Almirante Cordero to the seventh and to date last time to win the Copa Libertadores. With the triumph in the most important football tournament for club teams in South America, the team of coach Jose Pastoriza was allowed to start for the World Cup, where Independiente against the winner in the European Cup of Champions 1983/84, Liverpool, with a goal by José Percudani in the 87th minutes prevailed 1-0.
National
Ricardo Giusti made 53 international matches in the Argentine national soccer team. From coach Carlos Bilardo, he was called to the squad for the World Cup in Mexico in 1986. In the tournament, he was used in all games of his team, a goal not achieved the midfielder. The Argentine team won at the Football World Cup 1986 for the second time in the history of Argentine football, the World Cup, in the final at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City we won 3-2 against Germany. Four years later, you found yourself with exactly this opponent again in the final of the football World Cup over and the better end of this time the Germans had for themselves. With the Football World Cup 1990 in Italy Giusti but not belonged first to the root formation in Bilardos team, he came off the bench in the first round only once. In the final round games he played in second round, quarterfinals and semifinals over the full distance. In the semi-final against hosts Italy, which Argentina won 4-3 on penalties, he saw the red card in 103 minutes of play and was therefore suspended for the final, which lost its team with 0-1 against Germany. After the World Cup, the national career of Ricardo Giusti ended after 53 missions.