Personal information | |||
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Full name | Rodolfo José Fischer | ||
Date of birth | April 2, 1944 | ||
Place of birth | Oberá, Argentina | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1965–1972 | CA San Lorenzo de Almagro | 271 (total) | (141) |
1972–1976 | Botafogo FR | ||
1976 | EC Vitória | ||
1977–1978 | CA San Lorenzo de Almagro | (s. above) | |
1979 | CD Once Caldas | 40 | (10) |
1980 | CA Sarmiento | ||
1981 | Sportivo Belgrano | ||
National team | |||
1967–1972 | Argentina | 35 | (12) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only. |
Rodolfo José Fischer Eichler (born 2 April 1944 in Oberá, Province Misiones) is a former Argentine international association football player of German-Brazilian descendancy. His tenacity awarded the tall attacker with a penchant for headers the nickname El Lobo, the "Wolf". With CA San Lorenzo de Almagro in Buenos Aires he won three championship and he remains one of the foremost strikers in the club's history. Among others, he also played for Botafogo FR in Brazil and CD Once Caldas in Colombia.
Rodolfo "El Lobo" Fischer joined in 1963 the youth of the top club CA 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 manager Elba de Pádua Lima "Tim" undefeated the Campeonato Metropolitano, the Metropolitan Championship – the first undefeated championship of any club in the history of professional football in Argentina. In 1969 he was top scorer of the Campeonato Nacional. In 1972 he won the both, the Metropolitan and the National championship with San Lorenzo. One of his personal highlights were his three goals he contributed to a 4–0 win over CA River Plate in April 1972.
From 1967 onward he also played 35 matches for the national team for which he scored 12 goals. His last match for Argentina was in July 1972 in the Maracanã in Rio de Janeiro at the Taça Independência, the Brazilian Independence Cup, where Argentina finished fourth. At this tournament he was, together with the Portuguese Joaquim Dinis number two in the scorer list.