Showing posts with label San Lorenzo. Show all posts
Showing posts with label San Lorenzo. Show all posts
Gustavo Toledo golazo contra San Lorenzo
Banfield and San Lorenzo had little but pride to play for when they faced each other during the final round of games in the Clausura 2011 tournament. San Lorenzo needed to win to cut their sequence of six games without a victory but Gonzalo Toledo put Banfield ahead with this magnificent strike. San Lorenzo managed to scramble an equaliser for a 1-1 draw but they still finished the season in terrible form and finished bottom amongst the so called "big five".
Golazo Leandro Caruso taco contra San Lorenzo, Clausura 2011
On 22 May 2011 Argentine giants River Plate needed a win against San Lorenzo in order to avoid finishing the weekend occupying one of the Primera Division relegation places. Leandro Caruso got the hosts off to a cracking start with this back-heel finish to establish a 1-0 lead (note the nutmeg from Mariano pavone in the build up play) but River goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo threw the win away with another awful goalkeeping error to leave the never relegated club in the relegation zone with only 4 games of the season remaining.
Juan Pablo Carrizo blooper contra San Lorenzo, Clausura 2011
After his dreadful own goal in the Superclásico derby against Boca Juniors in round 14, River Plate goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo was hoping to keep out of trouble in their game against San Lorenzo in the 15th round however he had no such luck letting a long range shot from opposition striker Jonathan Ferrari slip through his hands. The game ended 1-1 and left River in the relegation places with only four games of the season remaining.
For more crazy South American football check out the rest of the Cosas locas series.
Aureliano Torres golazo vs Boca Juniors, Clausura 2011
On 12 March 2011 San Lorenzo hosted Boca Juniors in a game of huge importance to both sides in the fifth round of the Clausura 2011 tournament. San Lorenzo coached by Ramón Díaz needed the win in order to avoid falling too far behind the league leaders and Falcioni's Boca Juniors needed to take something from the game in order to climb away from their embarrasing league position of 16th.
The game was too nerve riddled to be considered great but the only goal of the game was certainly a classic, Aureliano Torres was given far too much space to run into by the Boca Juniors midfield and when nobody bothered to close him down he unleashed a powerful curling shot. At first viewing, the Boca Juniors goalkeeper García seems to be badly out of position but in a later replay it becomes clear how much the ball swerved back inside the post meaning that even a well positioned goalkeeper would have had real trouble trying to save it.
San Lorenzo held on for the 1-0 win despite some characteristic penalty box hurly burly from Boca's Martín Palermo. San Lorenzo took temporary leadership of the division while Boca Juniors slipped one position to 17th place.
Pablo Velazquez vs All Boys, Clausura 2011
On 4 March 2011 All Boys faced San Lorenzo in the fourth round of the Clausura 2011 tournament. The game was pretty evenly balanced until All Boys hard man Hugo Barrientos got himself sent off early in the second half. San Lorenzo capitalised scoring three quality team goals for an important confidence building 0-3 away win. The pick of the San Lorenzo goals was their second which came from great combination play between ex-West Brom midfielder Juan Carlos Menseguéz and their new Paraguayan signing Pablo Velázquez. The final pass from Menseguéz to Velázquez showed the real awareness of an intelligent footballer.
Golazo: Andrés Pérez rabona goal for San Lorenzo against Independiente
Colombian midfielder Andrés Pérez spent a few years playing in Argentina with Quilmes San Lorenzo and Arsenal de Sarandí. The best moment of his time in Argentine football was probably this famous rabona goal for San Lorenzo against Independiente in a pre season friendly (Torneos de Verano) in 2006.
Agustín Orión kick-ups vs Liga de Quito, Copa Libertadores 2008
On 15 May 2008 Argentine side San Lorenzo hosted Liga de Quito of Ecuador in the 1st leg of their Copa Libertadores quarter final. San Lorenzo were overwhelming favourites to win the game, they had eliminated River Plate in the previous round coming back from 2-0 down away from home with only 9 players.
When the San Lorenzo goalkeeper Agustín Orión received the ball he inexplicably decided to try some kick-ups instead of clearing it, he was closed down by Liga's Argentine striker Claudio Bieler who nipped in to knock the ball into the net. Adrián González equalised for San Lorenzo with a free kick but a 1-1 draw was a brilliant result for the Ecuadorians to take back to their high altitude fortress in Quito for the 2nd leg.
The teams drew 1-1 in the second leg and Liga won the penalty shootout to eliminate San Lorenzo. The Ecuadorians went on to win the tournament beating Brazilian side Fluminense in the highest scoring final in the history of the competition to become the first Ecuadorian side to win a major international tournament. Since then they have also won the Copa Sudamericana in 2009 and established themselves as one of the powerhouses of South American football.
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Lujos: Diego Placente caño against Juan Román Riquelme
Juan Román Riquelme is well known as one of the most talented Argentine players with the ball at his feet, back in 2008 former Bayer Leverkusen defender Diego Placente took the opportunity to show Riqulme that he is not the only one that can pull off a nifty trick.
What ever happened to? Claudio Marangoni
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| Marangoni was one of four Argentinians to play in England in the early 1980s. Osvaldo Ardiles, Marangoni, Alex Sabella & Ricardo Villa (left to right). |
Marangoni who was born on 11 November 1954 was a trainee at local club Rosario Central but never played for the first team. He made his professional debut for Chacarita Juniors in 1974 aged 19 and in 1976 he joined San Lorenzo where he played 135 league games before his move to England.
In the late 1970s Marangoni was courted by Ipswich Town and Chelsea before eventually signing for Sunderland. He only played one season at Roker Park, scoring 3 goals in 20 league games. Marangoni has claimed that he couldn't get along with the man management style of then manager Ken Knighton, who demanded absolute subservience from his players. He also found it hard to adapt to the foreign lifestyle and the different mentality of his team mates. In one example he claimed that he messed about with an unnamed Sunderland team mates' car for a practical joke, but the owner of the car got so angry that he had to be restrained from attacking him for it.
In 1980 he returned to Argentina where he played for San Lorenzo's fiercest rivals Húracan between 1980 and 1981 without much success.
In 1982 he joined Independiente who had not won a trophy since 1978 when their blistering run of successes in the 1970s had come to an end. He fitted straight into the first team alongside great players such as Jorge Burruchara, Enzo Trossero, Ricardo Giusti and Ricardo Bochini (who he regards as the 2nd greatest Aregntine footballer of all time).
Under manager José Pastoriza the team revived their fortunes, finishing as runners up in Metropolitano 1982 behind the Estudiantes de La Plata team containing Alejandro Sabella who also had a spell in English football with Leeds and Sheffield United. Independiente were again runners up in Nacional 1983, losing to Estudiantes in the final.
They eventually won the Metropolitano championship of 1983 by beating their fierce local rivals Racing Club 2-0 in the last game of the season to clinch the championship one point above Marangoni's former club San Lorenzo and in beating Racing Club they consigned them to relegation for the first time in their history.
In 1984 Marangoni featured in the Independiente team that won their 7th Copa Libertadores championship, a record that stands to this day. this success qualified them to play against Liverpool FC in the intercontinental Cup which was the first meeting between an English and Argentine team since the Falklands War, Independiente felt that they were playing the game on behalf of their nation in what was more than just a sports encounter.
Independiente won the game 1-0 with a goal from José Percudani and after the game the players did not celebrate in the dressing room because they felt it would be disrespectful to all of the dead and injured in the Falklands War to celebrate over a game of football.
Around that time Marangoni had been offered the chance to return to England to play for Southampton. he claims that after the Intercontinental Cup final he told Kenny Dalglish that he was coming back to England and Dalglish told him "Claudio, stay in Argentina at least you have some sunshine there".
it was during this successful period that Marangoni made his 9 appearances for the Argentina national team, he was part of the Copa América 1983 squad however he fell out with manager Carlos Bilardo in 1985 and was not selected for the 1986 World Cup squad.
Marangoni played for Independiente until 1988, making 237 league appearances and scoring 25 league goals for the club.
On 27 August 1988 Marangoni joined Argentine giants Boca Juniors where he was part of the team that won the Supercopa Sudamericana in 1989 to end an 8 year trophy drought at the club, he scored the first goal in their 2-0 win in the semi final against Brazilian side Grêmio, before they beat his former side Independiente on penalties in the final.
In 1990 he was in the Boca Juniors team that won the Recopa Sudamericana. He made 93 appearances for Boca Juniors in all competitions between 1988 and his retirement in 1990, scoring 7 goals.
Throughout his playing career Marangoni pursued other interests, he qualified as a physiotherapist, obtained his coaching qualifications, attended college to learn English and in 1984 he established the Escuela Modelo de Fútbol y Deportes, a sporting academy which he still runs today.
Marangoni did try his hand at football management with Banfield, but he fell out with the directors because they kept trying to interfere with team affairs. he has since claimed that being a football manager is easier than being the director of 40 football academies, but he doesn't do it because there is no job security in football management.
In Argetnina Marangoni is considered as a great number 5 (centre half back) what would be called a defensive or holding midfielder in modern parlance. The fact that he has played for three of the big five teams in Argentina (San Lorenzo, Independiente & Boca Juniors), represented the Argentina national team and owns a reasonably large medal collection could be used as supporting evidence.
When asked Marangoni said that the best number 5s he has ever seen were Gérson, Franz Beckenbaur, Fernando Redondo and Roberto Telch. When asked about modern football he avoided the urge to get nostalgic about the past as many other ex-pros would be unable to, saying that modern football is better and that if all the Aregntinians currently playing abroad were to return to Argentina, they would have the best league in the world.
Marangoni is fondly remembered by Argentine football fans, however in England he was selected in 39th position by the Times in their list of the 50 Worst players ever to play in the English top flight. On closer inspection their argument for inclusion is somewhat diminished by their claim that he was a striker with a poor strike rate of 3 goals in 20 games, when he was actually a number 5. A modern equivalent would be trying to argue that Javier Mascherano was Liverpool's worst ever player because 1 goal in 94 league games is a dreadful goalscoring record for a striker.
It is clear from the fact that he only stayed one season, that Marangoni did not settle in English football, however ever since leaving Sunderland in 1980 he has enjoyed success. These successes show that he was a quality player that just didn't adapt to the English game and lifestyle rather than an absolute flop of the Nicolás Medina calibre.
Part of the What ever happened to? series.
Lucky goalkeeper
River Plate goalkeeper Juan Pablo Carrizo is well known for his gambetas (like these and this and this) but he was extremely lucky to get away with this lack of concentration back in 2008.
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Errado: Sebastían Abreu, San Lorenzo vs River Plate
Uruguayan striker Sebastián "Loco" Abreu has played for an astonishing 18 teams in 8 different countries during his career as a nomadic international journeyman footballer In 1996 he joined San Lorenzo for his first stint with the club. During his stay there he logged an impressive 26 goals in 43 league games, it should have been 27 but for this miss against River Plate which caused a wonderful lamentation by the commentator.
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Gastón Aguirre own goal
San Lorenzo player Gastón Aguirre is the first player to appear in the "Cosas locas" section for a second time. The first was for a bit of brutal animal slaughter. This one is for his comically poor attempted clearance which resulted in an own goal for opponents Lanús.
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Pigeon killer Aguirre
It was the most important game in the history of Club Atlético Tigre. It was the first leg of the 3 way playoff at the end of the Apertura 2008 championship.There was a huge TV audience for this unexpected pre-Christmas bonus game and they all saw San Lorenzo's Gastón Aguirre kill an innocent pigeon.
For those of you who are actually interested in the football the results were:
Tigre 1-2 San Lorenzo
Boca Juniors 3-1 San Lorenzo
Boca Juniors 0-1 Tigre
Which meant that Boca Juniors won on goal difference, a tad unfair considering that at the end of the regular season San Lorenzo had by far the better goal difference and Tigre had the better head-to-head but they had to play the end of season playoff with Boca Juniors who were awarded the championship on goaldifference after a 3 way tie.
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