Humberto Maschio

Humberto Maschio
Humberto Maschio in the Argentina jersey
Personnel
Surname	Humberto Dionisio Maschio
birthday	February 20, 1933
place of birth	Avellaneda ,  Argentina
size	174 cm
position	striker
Juniors
Years	station
	Arsenal de Llavallol
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1953	Quilmes AC	30 (24)
1954-1957	Racing Club	139 (44)
1957-1959	Bologna FC	43 (13)
1960–1962	Atalanta Bergamo	80 (22)
1962-1963	Inter Milan	15 0(4)
1963-1966	AC Florence	40 (11)
1966-1968	Racing Club
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1956-1957	Argentina	12 (12)
1962	Italy	2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Humberto Dionisio Maschio (born February 20, 1933 in Avellaneda ) is a former Argentine- Italian football player . He played for both the Argentine and Italian national soccer teams and took part in the 1962 World Cup with the latter .

Career

Club career

Argentina (until 1957)

Humberto Maschio began his football career in 1953 with Quilmes AC in the city of the same name in the province of Buenos Aires . He had previously played for Arsenal de Llavallol , a smaller club from his hometown of Avellaneda, in his youth. After he had made thirty games for Quilmes in 1953 and scored 24 goals, the Racing Club from Avellaneda signed him, then as now one of the best clubs in Argentina. With the Racing Club Maschio could not win a national championship title in his four years at the club. In the 1954 season, his first with the club, they were only tenth, in 1955 Maschio finished second with the Racing Club after the end of the season with seven points behind CA River Plate . In the following two seasons, River Plate won the Argentine championship, the Racing Club finished fourth and third respectively. Humberto Maschio scored many goals during those four years at Racing Club, in the 1955 season he was one of the best in the league with eighteen goals this season, but the top scorer was Oscar Massei from Rosario Central , who moved to Inter Milan after the season .

Italy (1957–1966)

Humberto Maschio (left) with Omar Sívori

Two years after Maasai, Humberto Maschio also got an offer from the Italian league, in which many other foreign players were also playing at the time. Helmut Haller from Germany played in Bologna , from Sweden Nils Liedholm , Gunnar Gren and Gunnar Nordahl , the famous storm trio Gre-No-Li of AC Milan , but players from Argentina have already played in Serie A, the most famous of whom is probably Omar Sívori , who played for River Plate until 1957 and then went to Italy , where he played football for Juventus Turin and SSC Napoli .

Humberto Maschio moved to FC Bologna for the 1957/58 season . He left his old club Racing Club in the middle of the season, as in Argentina they played in the calendar year, while in Italy the traditional European style of play was used from summer to summer. With the club from the Stadio Renato Dall'Ara , Maschio was sixth in Serie A in his first season , and Juventus Turin won the championship. The following season, Bologna finished in tenth place, while AC Milan became champions. In total, Humberto Maschio played 43 league games for FC Bologna, in which he scored thirteen goals. In 1959 Maschio left Bologna and joined Atalanta Bergamo . He stayed with the club for three years until 1962, and he achieved the best placement in Serie A with the club by finishing sixth in the 1962 season. After that season he was signed by Inter Milan. Here he was part of the Grande Inter for a year , won the Italian championship, but was not used as a regular player by coach Helenio Herrera . Maschio moved to Fiorentina in 1963 after fifteen league games for Internazionale, in which he scored four goals . Here he became a regular, making nineteen games and three goals in the first season. In his second year at Fiorentina he played all league games, scoring eight goals in thirty games. In the following season, however, he was only used sporadically and left Florence after the end of the 1965/66 season.

Argentina (1966–1968)

In 1966, Humberto Maschio returned to his home in Argentina after his engagement at Fiorentina and played for his old club Racing Club for three years. In those three years he won three titles with the Racing Club. In 1966 Maschio managed to win a national championship for the second time in his career, in the Primera División the Racing Club took first place with five points ahead of River Plate. This made the Racing Club the last club to win the single-track Argentine championship in the calendar year, since a system with two seasons per year was introduced from 1968. With the championship title in 1966, the Racing Club was entitled to participate in the Copa Libertadores 1967 . In the tournament, the Racing Club survived round after round and finally stood in the final, where they met Nacional Montevideo . After a 0-0 draw at both the Estadio Presidente Perón and the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo , the Racing Club won the decider in Santiago de Chile 2-1. Maschio did not manage to score, but played in all three finals. After winning the Copa Libertadores , the Racing Club was also successful in the World Cup , which was won after a decider on November 4, 1967 in Montevideo against Celtic Glasgow . The following year, Humberto Maschio ended his footballing career at the age of 36. Then he worked as a trainer.

National team

The Argentine team at the Copa America 1957 in Peru; from left: Omar Corbatta, Humberto Maschio , Antonio Angelillo, Omar Sívori, Osvaldo Cruz

Humberto Maschio played in both the Argentine and Italian national soccer teams . In 1956 and 1957, during his time at the Racing Club, he was used in twelve international matches for the Argentine national team and he scored twelve goals. After his move to Italy, there was no further international match, as it was very difficult for legionnaires to play in the Argentine national team at the time.

After some time in Italy, he acquired Italian citizenship and was thus eligible to play for the national team of the southern European country. Italy's national coaches Paolo Mazza and Giovanni Ferrari , once two-time world champions in 1934 and 1938, called Maschio into the squad for the 1962 World Cup in Chile without having made an international match for Italy beforehand . At the tournament he was used in a game. In the second group game Italy met Chile. The game, which went down in the history of the World Cup as the Battle of Santiago , ended after an excessive number of gross fouls on the part of the Chileans, two dismissals against Italy with 2-0 for the hosts, which qualified them for the quarter-finals and Italy was eliminated. Humberto Maschio was also directly involved in the clashes on the lawn of the Estadio Nacional in Santiago de Chile, when the Chilean player Leonel Sánchez broke his nose with a punch.

Web links

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• Humberto Maschio in the database of FIFA (English)
• Information about the player
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