 Fischer while playing for San Lorenzo | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Rodolfo José Fischer Eichler | ||
| Date of birth | (1944-04-02)2 April 1944 | ||
| Place of birth | Oberá,Argentina | ||
| Date of death | 16 October 2020(2020-10-16) (aged 76) | ||
| Position | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1965–1972 | San Lorenzo | 271 (total) | (141) |
| 1972–1976 | Botafogo FR | ||
| 1976 | EC Vitória | ||
| 1977–1978 | San Lorenzo | (s. above) | |
| 1979 | Once Caldas | 40 | (10) |
| 1980 | Sarmiento (J) | ||
| 1981 | Sportivo Belgrano | ||
| International career | |||
| 1967–1972 | Argentina | 35 | (12) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Rodolfo José Fischer Eichler, nicknamedLobo (2 April 1944 – 16 October 2020)[1] was anArgentine internationalassociation football player of German-Brazilian descent. His tenacity awarded the tall attacker with the nicknameEl Lobo, the "Wolf". WithCA San Lorenzo de Almagro inBuenos Aires he won three championships and he remained one of the foremost strikers in the club's history. Among others, he also played forBotafogo FR in Brazil andCD Once Caldas in Colombia.
Fischer was born on 2 April 1944 (inOberá, ProvinceMisiones). He joined in 1963 the youth of the top clubCA San Lorenzo de Almagro in the Argentine capital Buenos Aires. From 1965 he played in the first team of the club with which he won in 1968 under the Brazilian managerElba de Pádua Lima "Tim" undefeated theCampeonato Metropolitano, theMetropolitan Championship – the first undefeated championship of any club in the history of professional football in Argentina. In1969, he was top scorer of the National championship. In1972, he won both, Metropolitan and National championships with San Lorenzo. One of his personal highlights was his three goals he contributed to a 4–0 win overRiver Plate in April 1972.[2]
From 1967 onward he also played 35 matches for theArgentina national team for which he scored 12 goals. His last match for Argentina was in July 1972 in theMaracanã inRio de Janeiro at theTaça Independência, theBrazilian Independence Cup, where Argentina finished fourth. At this tournament he was, together with the PortugueseJoaquim Dinis number two in the scorer list.
After this tournament he stayed in Rio de Janeiro and played for four years forBotafogo FR, which paid one millionBrazilian cruzeiros for him. Most prominent team member there was theWorld Cup 1970 winning playerJairzinho, and alsoMário Zagallo coach of Brazil 1970 worked in Botafogo for some time in that period. In 1976 Rodolfo Fischer moved to north-eastern Brazil, where he joinedEC Vitória inSalvador da Bahia, playing under coach Tim once more.[3][4]
From 1977 to 1978 he returned to Argentina and played again for San Lorenzo, for which he scored altogether 141 goals in 271 league matches, which makes him fourth best scorer in the club's history.
In 1979 he went abroad once more to play forCD Once Caldas inManizales,Colombia, for which he scored 11 goals in 40 league matches. In the years 1980 and 1981 he saw out his career back in Argentina with clubSarmiento ofJunín in theBuenos Aires Province andSportivo Belgrano inCórdoba Province, both teams in the lower leagues.
Rodolfo Fisher lived on a farm in the interior of Argentina. On 16 October 2020, Fischer died, aged 76.[1]
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