ARIEL ARNALDO ORTEGA
Date of Birth: March 4th 1974
Place of Birth: Ledesma,
Province of Jujuy, Argentina
Titles won with River Plate:
* Opening 1993
* Opening 1994
* Opening 1996
* Libertadores de América Cup 1996
The "Burrito" Ortega started at the lower
divisions
of the Ledesma Club, located in Libertador
General
San Martín, where he finally made it
to the main
main team. He was transferred to River Plate
shortly
after that, where he began playing in the
fourth
division. When Daniel Alberto Passarella became
the
team's coach, he made it to the first division
of
the millionaire. Using his talent with the
ball he
soon became the leading man of the new "machine"
of
the end of the century. He was part of the
team led
by the "Tolo" Américo Rubén
Gallego in 1994 which
won the Apertura tournament without losing
a match,
and later on in 1996 he became Latin America
champion.
Early in 1997 he was transferred to the Spanish
team
Valencia, where he was unable to display all
of his
skills because of his fights with the team's
coach,
and finally he left to the Italian team Sampdoria,
where he carried the bargain of helping a
team
without remarkable players to stay in the
first
division of the Italian football. This was
a thing
he was unable to do and nowadays it is most
likely
he'll be leaving the Sampdoria, maybe to return
to
River Plate, it's a fat chance, but there
is a
certain possibility that shouldn't be ruled
out.
Ortega is also a core member inside the Argentinian
national team. He was part of the teams which
played
the World Cup USA '94, and France '98, he
won the
Panamerican Championship in Mar del Plata
in 1995,
and he was runner-up at the Olympic games
in 1996.
He is nowadays part of the team that will
play the
last America Cup of this century in 1999 in
Paraguay.
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