Carlos Bianchi

1967/73 Vélez Sarsfield (ARG) 165 games, 121 goals

1973/77 Stade de Reims (FRA) 144 games, 130 goals

(French Championship: 124 games, 107 goals)

(Coupe de France: 20 games, 23 goals)

1977/79 Paris SG (FRA) 80 games, 71 goals

(French Championship: 74 games, 64 goals)

(Coupe de France: 6 games, 7 goals)

1979/80 RC Strasbourg (FRA) 25 games, 11 goals

(French Championship: 22 games, 8 goals)

(European Champion Clubs' Cup: 3 games, 3 goals)

1980/84 Vélez Sarsfield (ARG) 159 goals, 85 goals

1984/85 Stade de Reims (FRA) 20 matches, 9 goals

(French D2 Championship: 18 matches, 9 goals)

(Coupe de France: 2 matches)

With the National Team :

14 caps, 7 goals

(Friendly matches: 6 caps, 1 goal)

(Independence Cup: 4 caps, 4 goals)

(Copa Carlos Dittborn: 2 caps, 2 goals)

(Copa Julio Roca: 2 caps)

1st cap: January 8, 1971 against France (3-4)

Last cap: June 29, 1972 against Portugal (1-3)

Unofficial: 1 cap

Carlos Arcecio Bianchi

Born April 26, 1949 in Buenos Aires (ARG)

Argentinian, Striker, 1m78

Nicknames: El Goleador, El Bozo, Virrey, El Científico del Fútbol

Carlos Bianchi was born on April 26, 1949 in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Trained in the Velez Sarsfield club, he was a talented player, with an impeccable finish, with his favorite balls those lingering in the penalty area. A true fox in the area, he will make his professional debut at 18 years old in 1967 with Velez Sarsfield.

In total, he played 165 matches for his first club for 121 goals, mind-blowing statistics, including an exceptional year in 1971. At 22, he signed a year with 42 goals in 46 matches! Carlos Bianchi was then one of the most promising Argentinian players in the country, and it was quite logical that he took part in his first international match with the Argentinian national team on January 8, 1971, during a match against France lost 4-3.

The son of a newspaper seller, he was approached by the Stade de Reims, which was looking for a replacement for Delio Onnis who was crushing everything in France. So he decided in 1973, at the age of 24, to join the French club and write his history. There, he quickly became the fans' favorite player.

His first season in France was just perfect, 30 goals in 33 French championship matches, 8 goals in 8 French Cup matches, a season with 38 goals in 41 matches. Just mind-blowing, the player was even more decisive than Delio Onnis. In a Stade de Reims team that is no longer the Grand Stade de Reims, Carlos Bianchi is a ray of sunshine. Carlos Bianchi will have reached the semi-finals of the Coupe de France and put Reims back on the top of the league table. Reims finished in 6th place.

His second season in France will have been interrupted at the start of the season, on October 9, 1974, during a friendly match against Johan Cruyff's FC Barcelona. One of the FC Barcelona defenders comes to make a murderous tackle on the Argentinian striker who collapses, fractured tibia and fibula.

The player returns the following season, with the ambition of having a huge season, which he did. 11th during the season of their striker's injury, Reims will have a very good 1975/76 season, finishing 5th in the league. The player had an anthology season: 43 matches for 39 goals, including 34 in the championship, enough to bring him a second title of top scorer in the French championship.

Bianchi continued with a fourth season at Reims, finishing in a disappointing 11th place in the championship, the player was individually sparkling, finishing for the 3rd time in his career, top scorer in the French championship, 3 times in 4 years in France, and placing himself at the level of the legendary Delio Onnis with whom he lives a rivalry to know who finishes top scorer at the end of each season.

With the two Argentinians reigning supreme in goals in France, Bianchi decided to leave Reims after a Coupe de France final lost 2-1 against ASSE, in the competition Bianchi will have scored 10 goals in 7 matches. The Reims club, which has to sell, decides to let its player go to the new club Paris Saint-Germain, a mid-table club in Ligue 1.

Carlos Bianchi will also have his best statistical season in the league, scoring 37 goals in 38 games. A new top scorer title in his pocket, with a crazy ratio, he will have scored 49% of his team's goals in the league. Bianchi is then at the top, he is one if not the best player in the league. Finishing in a sad 11th place in the league, he continues with a second season at PSG and a 5th and final title of top scorer in Ligue 1, a record at the time that will hold until 2024, dethroned by Kylian Mbappé.

Unfortunately, Carlos Bianchi did not manage to win any trophies, in 1979, when he was 30 years old, he left for RC Strasbourg, where he had a complicated season, having difficulty adapting to the club that had just won the French championship, he only scored 11 goals in 25 games, his worst result in France. In the Champions Clubs' Cup, the Champions League, he reached the quarter-finals, scoring 3 goals in 3 games. In the championship, the club fell back and finished in a disappointing 5th place. Disappointed, frustrated, the Argentinian decided to return to Argentina, to his training club, Velez Sarsfield.

In Argentina, he rediscovered his finishing talents, scoring a total of 85 goals in 159 matches before finally returning to France, to help Stade de Reims, which was then in the French second division. At 35 years old, in a team struggling to play in the middle of the second division table, he scored 9 goals in 18 matches before retiring.

- Voted Foreign Player of the Year in the French Championship in 1974

- Top scorer in the French Championship in 1974 (30 goals), 1976 (34 goals), 1977 (28 goals) (Stade de Reims), 1978 (37 goals) and 1979 (27 goals) (Paris SG)

- Top scorer in the Argentine Championship in 1970 (Nac.) (18 goals), 1971 (Met.) (36 goals) and 1981 (Nac.) (15 goals) (Velez Sarsfield)

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