Oscar Más

Oscar Antonio "Pinino" Más (born October 29, 1946) is an Argentine former professional football striker. He played the majority of his career for River Plate where he is the club's second highest goalscorer of all time. Más was a fundamental part of the River team that ended the 18-year title drought, he also played for La Liga club Real Madrid and the Argentina national team.

Club career He was born in the city of Villa Ballester in the Buenos Aires Province of Argentina. He made his debut in the Argentine First Division at the age of 17 in 1964, with River Plate. He would go on to win two titles with River Plate, both the titles contested in 1975. He was twice the top scorer in the Argentine Primera and once top scorer in the Copa Libertadores. In total, he scored 199 goals in 382 games for River, being their second-most prolific scorer behind Angel Labruna.

Más also played for Real Madrid for a spell, América de Cali in Colombia, Quilmes, Sarmiento, Mariano Moreno, El Porvenir, Defensores de Belgrano, Huracán Las Heras de Mendoza and Talleres de Remedios de Escalada in Argentina.

By the end of his career he had scored 215 goals in 329 games in the Argentine Primera, making him the 7th highest scoring player since the professional era began in 1931.

International career Más represented Argentina on 37 occasions between 1965 and 1972 including at the 1966 World Cup. He scored 10 goals in his international career.

Investigative journalism and lawsuit for fraud On Monday June 29, 2009, Oscar Más was convicted to a six months suspended sentence for fraud, during an abbreviated trial after being arrested the previous day while he was voting in a San Isidro school, in the northern area of Greater Buenos Aires, on the occasion of the parliamentary elections of June 2009. The former player had an arrest warrant for breaking legal action under a suspension of trial by which he was benefited on a fraud lawsuit, as legal sources stated.

Más was arrested in a police station and was transferred the next day to the warden of the Palace of Justice to appear before the Oral Criminal Court No. 7 that sought his arrest, by judges Daniel Morin, Gustavo Valle and Juan Giúdice Bravo. The detention order was made because he did not comply with probation that justice had issued in December 2006 not to go to trial because of the complaint against him.

Honours Real Madrid Copa del Rey: 1973-74

River Plate Primera Division Argentina :1975 Metropolitano, 1975 Nacional Copa Libertadores runner-up: 1976

Argentina Copa América runner-up: 1967

Individual Argentine Primera División top scorer: 1970 Metropolitano, 1973 Metropolitano Copa Libertadores top scorer: 1970