Rubén Pagnanini

Rubén Pagnanini

Rubén Oscar Pagnanini ( born January 31, 1949 in San Nicolás de los Arroyos ) is a former Argentine footballer. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the Football World Cup 1978, where they won the title.

Career

Club career

Rubén Pagnanini, who was born in 1949 in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, a city in the province of Buenos Aires, his footballing career started in Estudiantes in La Plata, capital of the province of Buenos Aires. In his first season with Estudiantes, he won the Copa Libertadores in 1968, the main competition for club teams in South America. However, he was like the triumph the following year, not the first team of Estudiantes. In the third Copa Libertadores title in 1970, but Rubén Pagnanini stood in the eleven of Estudiantes de La Plata, the representatives of the Uruguayan Peñarol Montevideo defeated in the final first 1-0 and the second leg with a 0-0 draw. 1971 was Estudiantes for the fourth time in series in the final of the Copa Libertadores. This time the team lost to storm leader Juan Ramón Verón the final against Nacional in the playoff after winning in La Plata 1-0 and had lost in Montevideo 0-1. However Pagnanini was not one of the party. This defeat also ended the long -time success of Estudiantes de La Plata in the Copa Libertadores; you could win the competition again until 2009. At the state level it was in the following years also not as successful, the best result was a second place in the year 1975. 1977 left Rubén Pagnanini Estudiantes de La Plata and joined CA Independiente in Avellaneda, an industrial suburb of Buenos Aires, on. With Independiente, the Copa Libertadores could win 1972-1975 four times in a row, he won in 1977 and 1978 (each Nacional) two championships. In 1979 he joined again the club and went to Argentinos Juniors, where he trailed off at the young Diego Armando Maradona side of his career. In 1981 he made ​​another 14 games for the Minnesota Kicks in the United States.

National

In the Argentine national football team Rubén Pagnanini came to four stakes, which he recorded all in 1978. In those four games, he managed to score a goal. From Argentina coach César Luis Menotti, he was nominated to the squad for the World Cup in their own country. In the tournament, however, he did not play. Meanwhile, managed the Argentine team that played, among other international stars such as Mario Kempes from Valencia, Daniel Passarella, River Plate Buenos Aires or Daniel Bertoni Independiente Avellaneda, the first time winning the World Cup with a 3-1 after extra time at the Estadio Monumental in Buenos Aires against the Netherlands.