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José Pastoriza
José Omar Pastoriza (23 May 1942 – 2 August 2004) was a football player and manager. A midfielder, he played for Independiente, AS Monaco, and the Argentina national team. As a manager, he managed the Venezuela national team among other teams. Playing career ''El Pato'' ("The Duck") Pastoriza was born in Rosario, and started his career in Rosario Central, but gained renown with Colón de Santa Fe. He moved to Racing Club, but was transferred to rival Independiente after 53 matches due to a poor team performance and the precarious economic situation. He stayed six years with Independiente, winning three first division tournaments and a Copa Libertadores. In 1971, he was awarded the Olimpia de Oro, which is given to the Argentine footballer of the year. After the 1972 season he transferred to Ligue 1 AS Monaco, where he retired as a player. Coaching career Having good relations with players, ''El Pato'' Patoriza coached the a number of clubs in Argentina, Colombia, Braz ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rosario
Rosario () is the largest city in the central provinces of Argentina, Argentine province of Santa Fe Province, Santa Fe. The city, located northwest of Buenos Aires on the west bank of the Paraná River, is the third-most populous city in the country after Buenos Aires and Cordoba. With a growing and important metropolitan area, Greater Rosario has an estimated population of 1,750,000 . One of its main attractions includes the neoclassical architecture, neoclassical, Art Nouveau, and Art Deco architecture that has been preserved in hundreds of residences, houses and public buildings. The city is also famous for being the birthplace of the Argentine footballer Lionel Messi. Rosario is the head city of the Rosario Department and is located at the heart of the major industrial corridor in Argentina. The city is a major rail transport, railroad terminal and the shipping center for north-eastern Argentina. Ships reach the city via the Paraná River, which allows the existence of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Association Football
Association football, more commonly known as football or soccer, is a team sport played between two teams of 11 Football player, players who almost exclusively use their feet to propel a Ball (association football), ball around a rectangular field called a Football pitch, pitch. The objective of the game is to Scoring in association football, score more goals than the opposing team by moving the ball beyond the goal line into a rectangular-framed Goal (sport), goal defended by the opposing team. Traditionally, the game has been played over two 45-minute halves, for a total match time of 90 minutes. With an estimated 250 million players active in over 200 countries and territories, it is the world's most popular sport. Association football is played in accordance with the Laws of the Game (association football), Laws of the Game, a set of rules that has been in effect since 1863 and maintained by the International Football Association Board, IFAB since 1886. The game is pla ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1963 Argentine Primera División
The 1963 Argentine Primera División was the 72nd season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on April 28 and ended on November 24.Argentina 1963 by Osvaldo Gorgazzi at RSSSF.com Independiente won its 7th championship, with no teams relegated so the relegation was suspended. Therefore Estudiantes de la Plata
( lit. "La Plata Students"), simply referred to as Estudiantes de La Plata, is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Plata. The club's football team currently competes in the Primera División, where it has spent most of ...
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1962 Argentine Primera División
The 1962 Argentine Primera División was the 71st season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on March 25 and ended on December 12.Argentina 1962 by Osvaldo Gorgazzi at RSSSF.com Boca Juniors won its 14th championship, with Club Ferro Carril Oeste, Ferro C. Oeste and Quilmes Atlético Club, Quilmes being relegated to Primera B Metropolitana, Primera B by the average system. League standings See also *1962 in Argentine footballReferences {{DEFAULTSORT:1962 Argentine Primera Division Argentine Primera División seasons 1962 in South American football leagues, Argentine Primera Division 1962 in Argentine football ...[...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jairo Castillo
Jairo Fernando "El Tigre" (The Tiger) Castillo Cortés (born 17 November 1977) is a retired Colombian footballer. Club career Castillo's professional career began with América de Cali in 1994. In 1995, Castillo was loaned to second-division club Atletico Bucaramanga, and scored 8 goals in 25 appearances, helping his club win the 1995 Categoría Primera B title. He returned to America for the 1996 season having gained more experience and won his first title as a professional, the 1996-97 league championship, and finished runner-up in the Copa Libertadores. In 1999, he won the Copa Merconorte. In the second leg of the Copa Merconorte finals against Santa Fe, Castillo scored the only goal of the game, and then scored his penalty in the shootout to help America lift the trophy. In 2000, he joined Vélez Sársfield of Argentina but returned to América de Cali after only one season where he won another Colombian league title in 2002. In 2003, he went back to Argentina to play ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tobacco Smoking
Tobacco smoking is the practice of burning tobacco and ingesting the resulting smoke. The smoke may be inhaled, as is done with cigarettes, or released from the mouth, as is generally done with pipes and cigars. The practice is believed to have begun as early as 5000–3000 BC in Mesoamerica and South America. Tobacco was introduced to Eurasia in the late 17th century by European colonists, where it followed common trade routes. The practice encountered criticism from its first import into the Western world onward but embedded itself in certain strata of several societies before becoming widespread upon the introduction of automated cigarette-rolling apparatus. Smoking is the most common method of consuming tobacco, and tobacco is the most common substance smoked. The agricultural product is often mixed with additives and then combusted. The resulting smoke, which contains various active substances, the most significant of which is the addictive psychostimulant drug nicotine ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Buenos Aires
Buenos Aires, controlled by the government of the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires, is the Capital city, capital and largest city of Argentina. It is located on the southwest of the Río de la Plata. Buenos Aires is classified as an Alpha− global city, according to the Globalization and World Cities Research Network, GaWC 2024 ranking. The city proper has a population of 3.1 million and its urban area 16.7 million, making it the List of metropolitan areas, twentieth largest metropolitan area in the world. It is known for its preserved eclecticism, eclectic European #Architecture, architecture and rich culture, cultural life. It is a multiculturalism, multicultural city that is home to multiple ethnic and religious groups, contributing to its culture as well as to the dialect spoken in the city and in some other parts of the country. This is because since the 19th century, the city, and the country in general, has been a major recipient of millions of Immigration to Argentina, im ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Club Deportivo Los Millonarios
Millonarios Fútbol Club, known simply as Millonarios, is a Colombian professional Association football, football club based in Bogotá, that competes in the Categoría Primera A, top flight of football in Colombia. It is one of the most successful and iconic clubs in Colombia, making it one of the largest sports entities in the country and one of the most important in South America. The team's origins date back to the 1920s, but it began to be called Los Millonarios in 1937 when its name was Club Deportivo Municipal. It was officially founded on 18 June 1946, as Club Deportivo Los Millonarios, and later as Millonarios Fútbol Club on 20 April 2011, when it was reconstituted as a public limited company. Since 1938, the team has played their home games at Estadio El Campín which currently holds a 36,343 capacity. Millonarios has participated in the Categoría Primera A since its inception in 1948, being one of only three teams to have participated in all of its tournaments, along ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ligue 1
Ligue 1 (; ), officially known as Ligue 1 McDonald's France, McDonald's for sponsorship reasons, is a professional association football league in France and the highest level of the French football league system. Administered by the Ligue de Football Professionnel, Ligue 1 is contested by 18 clubs and operates on a system of promotion and relegation from and to Ligue 2. Seasons run from August to May. Clubs play two matches against each of the other teams in the league – one home and one away – totalling to 34 matches over the course of the season. Most games are played on Saturdays and Sundays, with a few games played during weekday evenings. Play is regularly suspended the last weekend before Christmas for two weeks before returning in the second week of January. Ligue 1 was inaugurated on 11 September 1932 under the name ''National'' before switching to ''Division 1'' after a year of existence. It continued to operate under that name until 2002, when it adopted its cur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Player Of The Year Of Argentina
The Footballer of the Year of Argentina (in Spanish: ''Olimpia de Plata al Mejor Futbolista'', that literally translates to "Silver Olimpia to the Best Footballer) is a yearly award given by the Argentine Sports Journalists' Circle (''Círculo de Periodistas Deportivos de la República Argentina'') as one of the Olimpia Awards, the most important sports award in Argentina. The ''Olimpia'' is awarded in the sport of association football and, since 2008, is shared by the best player of the local league (who wins the ''Olimpia de Plata al Fútbol Local'') and the best Argentine playing abroad (''Olimpia de Plata al Fútbol del Exterior''). Up to 2008, the award was not shared, and was either given to the best player of Argentine nationality of the season (regardless if he plays in the local league or abroad), or to the best foreign footballer of the local league. It is unclear when Argentine footballers playing abroad and expatriate players in the country started being eligible. Mar ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Copa Libertadores
The CONMEBOL Libertadores, also known as Copa Libertadores de América (), is an annual continental club football competition organized by CONMEBOL since 1960. It is the highest level of competition in South American club football. The tournament is named after the '' Libertadores'' (Spanish and Portuguese for ''liberators''), the leaders of the Spanish American wars of independence and Brazilian Independence, so a literal translation of its former name into English is "''Liberators of America Cup''". The competition has had several formats over its lifetime. Initially, only the champions of the South American leagues participated. In 1966, the runners-up of the South American leagues began to join. In 1998, Mexican teams were invited to compete and contested regularly from 2000 until 2016. In 2000 the tournament was expanded from 20 to 32 teams. Today at least four clubs per country compete in the tournament, with Argentina and Brazil having the most representatives (six and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
