Marcelo Pagani

Marcelo Pagani
Personnel
Surname	Marcelo Ernesto Pagani
birthday	August 19, 1941
place of birth	Santa Fe ,  Argentina
position	attack
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1952-1961	Rosario Central	67 (23)
1962	River Plate	30 0(0)
1962-1963	Inter Milan	0 0(0)
1963-1964	FC Messina	12 0(2)
1964-1965	Ozo Mantova	12 0(0)
1966	Rosario Central
1969	Audax Italiano
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1961–1962	Argentina	6 0(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Marcelo Ernesto Pagani (* 19th August 1941 in Santa Fe ) is a former Argentine football player in Italy worked with the national team of his country at the FIFA World Cup 1962 took part.

Career

Club career

Marcelo Pagani, born in 1941 in Santa Fe, a provincial capital in northeastern Argentina , started his football career at Rosario Central . With the club founded in 1889, Pagani, who played on the position of an attacker, was under contract until 1961. Five years after leaving Rosario , he returned to Central in 1966, played a few more games and made a total of 67 league games for the club. Pagani could not win a title with Rosario Central, however, it was not until 1971 that Rosario was crowned Argentine champion for the first time. But at this time Marcelo Pagani was no longer active in the Estadio Gigante de Arroyito , he ended his career at Audax Italiano La Florida in Chile in 1969 . Before that, he was employed for a few years in what was then Europe's top division Serie A in Italy. In the summer of 1962 he moved from River Plate , where he had kicked in thirty league games in 1962, to Inter Milan , where he did not come to a single league game under coach Helenio Herrera , incidentally himself an Argentinian. Nevertheless, Marcelo Pagani celebrated the greatest success of his career wearing the Nerazzurri jersey when they became Italian champions in the 1962/63 season . However, since he did not get the chance, Pagani went to FC Messina in Sicily after the season , where relegation was achieved as a climber. Marcelo Pagani, however, only made twelve out of thirty possible league games and joined Ozo Mantova for the 1964/65 season , which was also first class at the time. But even in Mantua the attacker could not really assert himself and also only made twelve games in the league, the club had to relegate to Serie B at the end of the season as bottom of the table .

National team

In 1961 and 1962, Marcelo Pagani was used as a player for Rosario Central and River Plate in six international matches for the Argentine national football team . He was appointed to the South American squad for the 1962 World Cup in neighboring Chile by national coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo . At the tournament he was used in two of his team's three games. While Pagani was on the pitch both in the 1-0 in the first group game against World Cup newcomers Bulgaria and in the last such, the goalless draw against Hungary , in the attack by Argentina, he missed the second game against England , which his team promptly scored 1: 3 lost.

Web links

• Marcelo Pagani in the database of weltfussball.de
• Statistics of his time in Italy
• Information about the player