Santiago SantamarÃa
José Santiago Santamaría ( born August 22, 1952 in San Nicolás de los Arroyos, † July 27, 2013 in Córdoba) was an Argentine football player. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the World Cup 1982.
Career
Association
Santiago Santa María started his footballing career in 1971 at CA Newell 's Old Boys in Rosario. In 1974 he won with Newell's Old Boys his first Argentine football championship when the Metropolitano Competition first place by two points was assigned to local rivals CA Rosario Central. In the same year Santa María Rosario and Argentina left and moved to the French first division side Stade Reims, with six league titles in France is still one of the most successful clubs in the country. However, these triumphs of Stade Reims were already a decade back, his most successful time the club had in the fifties, as well as twice the final was reached at the European Cup of Champions, where, however, each Real Madrid was beaten. Santa María played from 1974 to 1979 for Stade Reims and Reims reached with the best finish by a fifth in the 1975 season / 76th With the Red and Whites in 1977 he reached the National Cup Final, in which his first goal was not enough to win the trophy. After Stade rankings in the final table from year to year were poor, Santiago Santamaría rose with Stade Reims 1978/79 from the Division 1 and Table with only 17 points after 38 match days. Since then, Reims has not become top notch again. After the descent Santa María returned to Argentina back to his old club CA Newell 's Old Boys. He played until 1985 at the club, but could not celebrate national title.
National
Santiago Santamaría it brought between 1980 and 1982 on ten missions in Argentina's national soccer team. The defender was appointed to the squad for the FIFA World Cup 1982 in Spain by coach César Luis Menotti. Menotti put him but only twice as a substitute. In the final group match against El Salvador (2-0 ), he came on in the 78th minute for Gabriel Calderón, in the match of the round against Brazil (1-3 ) in the 65th minute for Daniel Bertoni. His team, however, who had gone to defend his title in the World Cup, failed in the second round and could not defend the title it.