Juan Alberto Estrada (28 October 1912 – 28 May 1985) was an
Argentine
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football
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goalkeeper who won two
Copa América
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championships with the
Argentina national team and two
league titles with
Boca Juniors
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.
Playing career
Club
Estrada began his career with
Sportivo Palermo, in 1933 he joined
Huracán
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where he made 102 league appearances for the club before his transfer to
Boca Juniors
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at the end of the 1937 season.
Estrada made his debut for Boca on 3 April 1938 in a 1–1 away draw with Ferro Carril Oeste. He went on to win two league championships with the club in
1940
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and
1943
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. He made a total of 142 appearances for the club in all competitions before his departure in October 1943.
Estrada ended his playing career in
Uruguay playing for
Defensor
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. During the 1944 season he made a club record five penalty saves.
International
Estrada made 18 appearances for the
Argentina national team between 1936 and 1941. He played in two editions of
Copa América
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. He was on the winning team in
1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...
in Argentina and again in
1941
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in
Chile.
Copa América 1941
at rsssf
Honours
;Boca Juniors
* Primera División
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: 1940
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, 1943
Events
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January
* January 1 – WWII: The Soviet Union announces that 22 German divisions have been encircled at Stalingrad, with 175,000 killed and 137,650 captured.
* January 4 – ...
;Argentina national team:
* Copa América
The Copa América ( en, America Cup) or CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol'' in Spanish and ''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol'' in Portuguese), is the t ...
: 1937
Events
January
* January 1 – Anastasio Somoza García becomes President of Nicaragua.
* January 5 – Water levels begin to rise in the Ohio River in the United States, leading to the Ohio River flood of 1937, which continues into Fe ...
, 1941
Events
Below, the events of World War II have the "WWII" prefix.
January
* January–August – 10,072 men, women and children with mental and physical disabilities are asphyxiated with carbon monoxide in a gas chamber, at Hadamar Eu ...
References
External links
Profile
at Bocampeonweb
Statistics
at Historia de Boca
1912 births
1985 deaths
Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Province
Argentine footballers
Argentina international footballers
Association football goalkeepers
Club Atlético Huracán footballers
Boca Juniors footballers
Defensor Sporting players
Argentine Primera División players
Argentine expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Uruguay
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