Oscar Más
 Mas in 1969, during his first run on River Plate. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Oscar Antonio Más | ||
| Date of birth | 29 October 1946 | ||
| Place of birth | Villa Ballester, Argentina | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Mariano Moreno de Junín | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1964–1973 | River Plate | 309 | (169) |
| 1973–1974 | Real Madrid | 24 | (11) |
| 1974–1977 | River Plate | 73 | (29) |
| 1977–1978 | América de Cali | 68 | (38) |
| 1979 | Quilmes | 7 | (3) |
| 1980–1981 | Defensores de Belgrano | 57 | (40) |
| 1982 | Sarmiento | 18 | (6) |
| 1982 | Mariano Moreno | 14 | (7) |
| 1983 | El Porvenir | ||
| 1984 | Defensores de Belgrano | ||
| 1985 | Huracán Las Heras de Mendoza | 8 | (1) |
| 1986–1987 | Talleres (RE) | 5 | (2) |
| International career | |||
| 1965–1972 | Argentina | 37 | (10) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Oscar Antonio Más (born October 29, 1946) is an Argentine former football striker. He played the majority of his career for River Plate, and is the club's second highest goalscorer of all time.
He was born in the city of Villa Ballester in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He made his debut in the Argentine First Division at the age of 17 in 1964, with River Plate. He would go on to win two titles with River Plate, both the titles contested in 1975. He was twice the top scorer in the Argentine Primera and once top scorer in the Copa Libertadores. In total, he scored 199 goals in 382 games for River, being their second-most prolific scorer behind Angel Labruna.
Más also played for Real Madrid for a spell, América de Cali in Colombia, Quilmes, Sarmiento, Mariano Moreno, El Porvenir, Defensores de Belgrano, Huracán Las Heras de Mendoza and Talleres de Remedios de Escalada in Argentina.
By the end of his career he had scored 215 goals in 329 games in the Argentine Primera, making him the 7th highest scoring player since the professional era began in 1931.
National team
[edit]Más represented Argentina on 37 occasions between 1965 and 1972 including at the 1966 World Cup. He scored 10 goals in his international career.
Investigative journalism and lawsuit for fraud
[edit]On Monday June 29, 2009, Oscar Más was convicted to a six months suspended sentence for fraud, during an abbreviated trial after being arrested the previous day while he was voting in a San Isidro school, in the northern area of Greater Buenos Aires, on the occasion of the parliamentary elections of June 2009. The former player had an arrest warrant for breaking legal action under a suspension of trial by which he was benefited on a fraud lawsuit, as legal sources stated.[1]
Más was arrested in a police station and was transferred the next day to the warden of the Palace of Justice to appear before the Oral Criminal Court No. 7 that sought his arrest, by judges Daniel Morin, Gustavo Valle and Juan Giúdice Bravo. The detention order was made because he did not comply with probation that justice had issued in December 2006 to not to go to trial because of the complaint against him.[1]
The former player should have reported periodically to the board of trustees of the Freed, which he failed to do, and he wasn't located in the home that he had fixed so the court declared his rebellion and ordered his arrest. However, until the decision is final, he shall remain free.[1]
On its issue of Friday July 10, 2009, the investigative news program Documentos América, issued by the channel América TV, revealed a hidden camera which presented Oscar Más demanding money from parents of children, in exchange for providing the latest a precarious training and eventual admission to the lower divisions of River Plate.[2]
Honours
[edit]- Real madrid
- River Plate
- Argentina
- Copa América runner-up: 1967
Topscorer awards
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ a b c <<Condenaron a Oscar "Pinino" Más por estafa luego de ser detenido ayer cuando votaba>> Archived July 16, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Yahoo Deportes México, transcripción de un cable de la agencia periodística DyN, 29-06-2009.
- ^ <<"Documentos América" escrachó a Oscar "Pinino" Mas>> Archived August 15, 2009, at the Wayback Machine Primicias Ya, 12-07-2009.
External links
[edit]- Brief bio at the official River Plate-dedicated web site (in Spanish)
- Futbol Factory profile at the Wayback Machine (archived October 20, 2007) (in Spanish)
- Museo dos Esportes entry (in Portuguese)
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- 1946 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Buenos Aires Province
- Argentine men's footballers
- Argentina men's international footballers
- 1966 FIFA World Cup players
- Men's association football forwards
- Club Atlético River Plate footballers
- Real Madrid CF players
- América de Cali footballers
- Quilmes Atlético Club footballers
- Defensores de Belgrano footballers
- Club Atlético Sarmiento footballers
- Talleres de Remedios de Escalada footballers
- Argentine Primera División players
- La Liga players
- Categoría Primera A players
- Argentine expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
- Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia
- 1967 South American Championship players
- Copa Libertadores top scorers
- 20th-century Argentine sportsmen