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Full name | Carlos Javier Mac Allister | ||
Date of birth | March 6, 1968 | ||
Place of birth | Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina | ||
Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
Playing position | Left Back | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
1986–1992 | Argentinos Juniors | 120 | (5) |
1992-1996 | Boca Juniors | 124 | (5) |
1996-1998 | Racing Club | 23 | (0) |
1998-1999 | Ferro Carril Oeste | 35 | (1) |
National team | |||
1993 | Argentina | 3 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. † Appearances (Goals). |
Carlos Javier Mac Allister (born March 6, 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.
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Despite the Scottish name which confused some commentators, Mac Allister 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 |
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Apertura 1992 | Boca Juniors | Primera División Argentina |
1993 | Boca Juniors | Copa de Oro Nicolás Leoz |
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:
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.
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]