Rubén Oscar Glaría (born 10 March 1948) is a former Argentine

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player and manager, and a current politician. He played as a defender for San Lorenzo and Racing Club and represented the

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at the

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. Glaria made his professional debut for San Lorenzo in 1968, during his time with the club he participated in four championship winning campaigns. In 1974, Glaria was part of the Argentina squad for the World Cup and in 1975 he joined Racing Club. After his retirement as a player Glaria became a football manager, he worked at a number of clubs in Argentina, including San Miguel, Sportivo Italiano,

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and

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. Glaria became particularly involved in politics in the 1980s, serving on the campaign to elect

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. He was provincial sports minister for

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From 1995 he served as the

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mayor of

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, until 1999 when he was displaced by a rival group of Justicialists. Glaria lost the internal selection of the PJ and launched his own faction, the Peronist Front. The subsequent election spilled over into a notable violent episode between the factions, which saw gunshots and stabbings, with eight wounded. In 2005, he was a candidate for national senator for the Buenos Aires New Party.

Honours

; San Lorenzo *

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: 1968 Metropolitano, 1972 Metropolitano, 1972 Nacional, 1974 Nacional

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Argentine men's footballers Men's association football defenders Argentina men's international footballers Argentine Primera División players San Lorenzo de Almagro footballers Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers Argentine football managers 1974 FIFA World Cup players Justicialist Party politicians Mayors of José C. Paz, Buenos Aires 1948 births Living people Place of birth missing (living people) 20th-century Argentine sportsmen {{Argentina-mayor-stub