José Varacka
Personal information | |||
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Date of birth | 27 May 1932 | ||
Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Date of death | 22 October 2018 | (aged 86)||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1952–1960 | Independiente | 202 | (2) |
1960–1965 | River Plate | 146 | (1) |
1966 | San Lorenzo | 17 | (0) |
1967 | Colo-Colo | ||
1967 | Porvenir Miraflores | ||
International career | |||
1956–1966 | Argentina | 28 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
1968–1971 |
Gimnasia LP | ||
1972 | Boca Juniors | ||
1973–1974 |
Gimnasia LP | ||
1975 | Atlanta | ||
1975–1977 | Atlético Junior | ||
1978–1979 |
Gimnasia LP | ||
1979 |
Millonarios | ||
1980–1981 | Atlético Junior | ||
1981–1983 | Argentinos Juniors | ||
1983 | River Plate | ||
1984 | Atlético Junior | ||
1987–1988 | Atlético Junior | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of November 2008 |
José Varacka (27 May 1932 – 22 October 2018) was an Argentine football player and coach.[1]
Club career
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Real Madrid.[2] He joined River Plate
in 1960 where he played for six seasons.
In 1966 Varacka joined San Lorenzo de Almagro and after one season with the club he would down his career at Colo-Colo in Chile and then Miraflores in Peru.
International career
Varacka played in the
1956[3] and 1959.[4] He was also part of the Argentina national team that won the 1964 Copa de Las Naciones, played in Brazil.[5]
Managerial career
Varacka started his managerial career with
Colombian league titles during his four spells as manager of Atlético Junior (1977 and 1980).[6] In 1981 his Argentinos Juniors team dramatically avoided relegation on the last day of the season by beating his former team San Lorenzo 1–0, causing their relegation instead. Varacka also managed the Argentina national team in the 1974 world cup alongside Vladislao Cap
.
Honours
Player
Argentina
Manager
Atlético Junior
- Categoría Primera A: 1977, 1980
References
- ^ Murió José Varacka, el entrenador que trajo a Enzo Francescoli a River (in Spanish)
- ^ José Varacka debió ser internado de urgencia Archived 3 March 2016 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
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- ^ La Primera Copa Mundial de Argentina Archived 30 October 2008 at the Wayback Machine (in Spanish)
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External links
Wikimedia Commons has media related to José Varacka.
- Varacka – FIFA competition record (archived)
- José Varacka at BDFA (in Spanish)