Norberto Boggio

Norberto Boggio
Norberto Boggio in the jersey of San Lorenzo
Personnel
Surname	Norberto Constante Boggio
birthday	August 11, 1931
place of birth	Santa Fe ,  Argentina
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1949-1956	CA Banfield	82 (33)
1957-1962	CA San Lorenzo	148 (44)
1970-1971	CF Atlante
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1958-1961	Argentina	11 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Norberto Constante Boggio (born August 11, 1931 in Santa Fe ) is a former Argentine soccer player. He took part in the 1958 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Norberto Boggio began his football career in 1949 with CA Banfield from the city of the same name in the province of Buenos Aires . At the club he played together with Eliseo Mouriño , who was Argentina national player at the same time as Boggio, which at the time for players from CA Banfield, the club then played in the lower area of ​​the Primera División and could only half a championship Winning a century later was not necessarily a given. Until 1956 Norberto Boggio stayed in Banfield and completed 82 games in the league for the club, in which he scored 33 goals. From 1957 Boggio then played for CA San Lorenzo de Almagro from Buenos Aires . In his third season at San Lorenzo de Almagro, where he played with other Argentinian and foreign football greats of the time such as José Sanfilippo , Ángel Berni and Héctor Facundo , Norberto Boggio won his first and only national championship title in his career, when his team took first place in the Primera División with seven points ahead of the Racing Club from Avellaneda and remained undefeated for the entire season. With this title, San Lorenzo de Almagro was eligible to participate in the Copa Libertadores 1960 , making the club one of the clubs that took part in the first edition of the most important football competition for club teams in South America. In 1962, Norberto Boggio finished his career in the jersey of CA San Lorenzo de Almagro. In 1970 he returned to the football field for a short time and played for the Mexican club CF Atlante .

National team

In the Argentine national soccer team , Norberto Boggio was used a total of eleven times between 1958 and 1961. In these eleven games he failed to score. From Argentina coach Guillermo Stábile he was appointed to the South American squad for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden . At the world tournament he was used in a game of his team, in the second group game against Northern Ireland , in which Argentina managed the only victory, he stormed alongside Omar Corbatta and Ludovico Avio, among others . The Argentine team failed at the World Cup after the preliminary round after losing the remaining two games against the reigning world champions Germany and Czechoslovakia .

Web links

• Norberto Boggio in the database of FIFA (English)
• Information about the player
• Profile of the player