Roberto Mouzo
Roberto Mouzo ( born January 8, 1953 in Avellaneda ) is a former Argentine footballer.
Career
Roberto Mouzo, born 1953 in Avellaneda, an industrial suburb of Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, began playing football in Buenos Aires at the Boca Juniors. In 1971 he passed the entrance into the professional squad of the club from the working-class neighborhood of La Boca. In the following years Mouzo played in Boca, among others, along with other Argentine football greats of the era such as Rubén Suñé, Francisco Sá or Hugo Gatti and won three times the 1971-1984 Argentine football championship. In 1976, he even won both semi-annual championships with Boca Juniors. In Metropolitano Competition you were first with three points ahead of CA Huracán, the Nacional is won with a 1-0 victory in the final against great rivals River Plate. For the second time Argentine champions Mouzo 1981, when you were the winner of the Metropolitano with a counter Ferro Carril Oeste before.
Previously he had won with his club twice in series, the Copa Libertadores. Made possible by the 1976 championship Boca was allowed to start for the Copa Libertadores 1977. After being defeated, among others, River Plate and Peñarol Montevideo in the first group stage and the then strong Colombian representatives Deportivo Cali in the second group stage, they met in the final at Cruzeiro from Brazil. After return game ended 1-0 for the home side, had a play about the Libertadores winners judge that Boca won 5-4 on penalties in Montevideo, after it had been after the extension 0-0. Roberto Mouzo came in all three finals in defense of his club to use. In the penalty shoot-out of the playoff he converted the first penalty for his team and laid the foundation for the subsequent victory. For the Copa Libertadores 1978, the Boca Juniors were qualified as defending champion and also won this tournament. In the final one was against Deportivo Cali in Colombia with 0:0 and 4:0 at home in La Bombonera Stadium successfully. Again Mouzo experienced both finals. During 1977 then even the World Cup was won by a 2-2 and 3-0 win against Borussia Mönchengladbach, the competition in 1978 did not take place because both the winner in the European Cup of Champions 1977/78, Liverpool FC, as well as the Boca Juniors, refused to participate.
After 396 games in La Liga, in which Roberto Mouzo were managed 21 goals, an end in 1984 his time at Boca Juniors. He joined for the 1985 season the then first division club Estudiantes de Río Cuarto to playing only mediocre nowadays. During the 1985 season he defied the small club from Río Cuarto his former club Boca Juniors as part of the National Competition in the group stage 1-1 down, but lost the return match with 1:7 and retired. A little later left Mouzo Argentina and even went for a few months to Ecuador to Club 9 de Octubre. In 1986 he moved for a short time to CA Atlanta, where he made eight more games and finished his career with 33 years.
Roberto Mouzo made four appearances for the Argentina national football team. All these operations accounted for the year 1974. However, he was not nominated for the World Cup that year. Nine years after his last international game called coach Carlos Bilardo him then into the squad for the Copa América 1983. Already in the group stage but this was the end for the Gauchos, while Uruguay South America champion. Mouzo was not even used.
Achievements
- La Liga: 3x ( Metropolitano 1976, Nacional 1976 Metropolitano 1981)
- Copa Libertadores: 2x (1977, 1978)
- World Cup: 1x (1977 )