Carlos MacAllister

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Carlos MacAllister
Full name	Carlos Javier MacAllister
Date of birth	March 6, 1968 (1968-03-06) (age 40)
Place of birth	Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Playing position	Left Back
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1986–1992 1992-1996 1996-1998 1998-1999	Argentinos Juniors Boca Juniors Racing Club Ferro Carril Oeste	120 (5) 124 (5) 23 (0) 35 (1)
National team
1993	Argentina	03 0(0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. * Appearances (Goals)

Carlos Javier Mac Allister (born 6 March 1968 in Santa Rosa, La Pampa) is a former Argentine former football player who played 3 international matches for Argentina in 1993 as a left-back.

1 Club Career
2 International Career
3 Post Career
4 References
5 External links

[edit] Club Career

Despite the Scottish sounding name which confused some commentators, MacAllister was fully Argentine. He debuted for Argentinos Juniors in 1986, and became notable for his passion for the game, his personality, as well as his red hair. He transferred to Boca Juniors in 1992 he scored the winning goal in the gold cup final. In 1996, he lefts Boca for Racing Club where he played until 1998 when he played one final season with Ferro Carril Oeste before retiring at the age of 30.

Titles

Season	Team	Title
Apertura 1992	Boca Juniors	Primera División Argentina
[1993	Boca Juniors	Copa de Oro Nicolás Leoz

[edit] International Career

In 1993, he played for Argentina in the qualifiers for the 1994 Fifa World Cup alongside such notables as Diego Maradona , Fernando Redondo , Sergio Goycochea , Oscar Ruggeri and Diego Simeone. He was brought into the team in late 1993 following the disastrous loss to Colombia on 05/09/1993 in Buenos Aires, and played in the following international games for Argentina:

31/10/1993 - 1-1 draw vs Australia played in Sydney. - 1994 World Cup Qualifiers
17/11/1993 - 1-0 victory vs Australia played in Buenos Aires - 1994 World Cup Qualifiers
15/12/1993 - 2-1 victory vs Germany played in Miami - Friendly

However , despite having never played in a losing team for Argentina, he was not selected for the finals and did not play in the 1994 Fifa World Cup itself.

[edit] Post Career

In 1998 the Mac Allister brothers, Carlos Javier and Carlos Patricio decided to found their own sports club for youngsters, the MacAllister Sports Club. They acquired a four-hectare piece of land situated 5 km away from the centre of Santa Rosa City, where they built their own club to instruct and promote soccer players for their subsequent insertion in the professional soccer.^[1]