Roberto Ferreiro

Roberto Ferreiro in the national jersey

Roberto Oscar Ferreiro ( born April 25, 1935 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine football player and later coach, who participated as a player with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1966.

Career

Club career

Roberto Ferreiro played most of his career at CA Independiente Avellaneda suburb from the bonarenser. Between 1958 and 1967 he made for Independiente 221 games in La Liga, the top division in Argentine football, but a scoring did not succeed there. During his time at Independiente Roberto Ferreiro won the Argentine championship three times. In the first title win in 1960, the team took to Ferreiro, Raúl Bernao and David Acevedo in the Primera División first place with two points ahead of CA River Plate. The second winning the Argentine championship succeeded Roberto Ferreiro with Independiente three years later in 1963, when after all the game day of the first rank in the table with two points could be reached before River Plate again. Even after the introduction of the double-track season with Campeonato Metropolitano and Nacional Independiente Campeonato remained successful, and won the National Competition in 1967 again the championship with two points ahead of Estudiantes de La Plata. This was their last title win for Roberto Ferreiro with Independiente, he left the club the following year and joined CA River Plate, where he played three years of football until 1970 and 86 league games for the club from the capital Buenos Aires, completed. In 1971 he played another year for CD Los Millonarios in Colombia and scored in Bogotá, the first two league goals of his career, where he managed only ten games for Millonarios.

At the international level was successfully Roberto Ferreiro with CA Independiente. The Copa Campeones de América in 1964 was designed by the players of coach Manuel Giudice victorious. This Independiente switched from first in the preliminaries Los Millonarios and the Peruvian representative Alianza Lima and defeated in the semifinals then even last year's winner FC Santos to world star Pelé. In the first leg of the final at the Estadio Centenario Independiente reached Montevideo a goalless draw against Nacional Montevideo and won the second leg in Avellaneda 1-0, which Independiente won the Copa Libertadores for the first time. Roberto Ferreiro was in both finals in the square and had in his defense his part to that Independiente allowed no goals in two games. In 1965, the Copa Campeones de América was renamed Copa Libertadores and Independiente won the first season under a new name. In the final one against CA Peñarol was again from Uruguay, victorious. After a victory at the Estadio Almirante Cordero to Avellaneda and one defeat in Centenario a play is supposed to determine which was won by Independiente in Santiago de Chile 4-1. Roberto Ferreiro played in all three games of the Finals. With the two victories in the Copa Libertadores Ferreiro and Independiente were also entitled to participate in the football World Cup. In both appearances, however, they lost against the winner in the European Champions Cup, named respectively Inter Milan.

After the end of his time as a player was Roberto Ferreiro football coach. He coached, among others, his old club CA Independiente, with whom he won the Copa Libertadores in 1974 and the same year as the World Cup.

National

In the Argentine national football team Roberto Ferreiro total of twenty times was used. From coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo, he was called to the squad for the World Cup 1966. The tournament in England Ferreiro was used in all four games of his team. The extremely hard game with active Argentines reached during the World Cup the next round after they had finished second behind Germany and ahead of Spain and Switzerland in the first round. In the round of eight teams Argentina difference then against hosts England, the later wins the World Cup, from. The round against England was also the last international match of Roberto Ferreiro.