Without being especially high (a meter would measure sixty -eight) or especially strong and fast, Luis Adolfo Galván gave a chair in the Argentine-Holanda of the world Cup ’78 of how a first central score should play. From his notable technical resources and his exact meaning of time and distance, he won the hand in hand and advances. Also won when it went to the sides and, complementing the unbordering physical power of Daniel PassarellaHe erected a memorable performance. A master class of how to be in a world final. The magazine The graph described it with ten points. On the same level as Mario Kempes and its two goals and Ubaldo Matilda Fill and their saved. FIFA awarded the Fair Play award that same night as the cleanest and chivalrous player of that World Cup.
Aquejo by a renal infection, the remarkable defender Santiago, born in the town of Fernández on February 24, 1948, died Monday in Córdoba at 77s. And he is the fourth player of the World Champion squad in 1978 who has left after Rubén Galván, Leopoldo Luque and René Houseman, and his coach César Luis Menotti. Time exceptional, from Córdoba workshopswhere he composed a remarkable defense with Pablo Comelles, Héctor Artico and Victorio Ocaño, Luis Galván extended his hierarchy to all Argentine football. Until In 1978, Menotti repaired him and summoned him to play the World Cup for national Team.
Galván was not in the first sections of that historical cycle. The initial number between 1975 and 1977 was Jorge Olguín. But when the coach decided to make him a right side and the position of the first central marker was vacant, The Santiago imposed itself by its own weight. He was undisputed holder in that fabulous workshops in the mid -1970s. And was used to defending large spaces away from the areas. After the 1977 National Final lost to Independiente, Menotti cited him at the concentration in the Marista Villa de Mar del Plata. And when assembling the team, he gave it ownership. Along with José Daniel Valencia y Miguel Angel Oviedo He was one of the three workshop players that integrated the first world soccer world champion squad.
So linked was Luis Galván’s life to the Cordoba club that, With 502 games in two cycles (1970/82 and 1988), it is the footballer more times he has played there. He also militated in Role in Negro (14 games in 1983), Belgrano (10 presences in 1984) and Central Norte de Salta (10 meetings in 1985). His campaign in the national team also covered the 1982 World Cup in Spain and totaled 34 meetings.
After his retirement in 1988 he was summoned by newspapers and Cordoba television to comment on the world’s drinks from his prestigious but at the same time, simple and serene. He never presumed his glory, he never believed. Every so often he turned around the Nucetelli workshops of workshops to transmit his experience to the little ones. He told them how to get a ten in a world final without abuse of his physique or put a bad face, Just cutting, removing, intuiting, playing. With the complete manual of numbers two on the head and legs.
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