Norberto Yácono

Norberto Yácono
Norberto Yácono at CA River Plate
Personnel
Surname	Norberto Antonio Yácono
birthday	January 8, 1919
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
date of death	November 1985
Place of death	Avellaneda ,  Argentina
size	162 cm
position	defense
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1938-1953	River Plate	393 (0)
1954-1958	Club America
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1942-1951	Argentina	15 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Norberto Antonio Yácono (born January 8, 1919 in Buenos Aires , † November 1985 in Avellaneda ) was an Argentine football player. He was very successful with CA River Plate and won the Argentine championship several times. Yácono later played at Club América in Mexico . He also won the South American Championship in 1947 with the Argentine national soccer team .

Career

Club career

Norberto Yácono played the first sixteen years of his football career with CA River Plate from the Argentine capital Buenos Aires , where he was born in 1919. At River Plate, then known as Millonarios (in German: millionaires ), he was part of the famous maquina around players like Ángel Labruna , Juan Carlos Muñoz , Adolfo Pedernera , José Manuel Moreno and Félix Loustau and achieved a number of successes. Norberto Yácono won the Argentine championship six times wearing the River Plate jersey. In the 3-2-5 system of the Maquina, Yácono formed the team's defense along with Aarón Wergifker and Ricardo Vaghi . He made 393 league games for CA River Plate between 1938 and 1953, but he did not manage a single hit. With 393 games in the league, he is still the player with the fourth most games in the shirt of River Plate, behind Reinaldo Merlo (526 games), Amadeo Carrizo (520 games) and Ángel Labruna with 515 games.

Norberto Yácono celebrated his first championship with CA River Plate in the 1941 season , when they finished first in the Primera División by four points over CA San Lorenzo de Almagro . The following year, coach Renato Cesarini's team was able to defend the title and once again ranked first after all match days, this time six points ahead of San Lorenzo. Three years later, in 1945, the championship was only successful again. Under the new coach José María Minella they were the winner of the Primera División with four points ahead of the eternal rival CA Boca Juniors . After the championship was won again in the 1947 season , it was not until 1952 before River Plate was again the best team in Argentine football. The 1952 Primera División finished in first place, one point ahead of the Racing Club , which had celebrated a title hat trick in previous years. A last championship experienced Norberto Yácono in the 1953 season , when they came first with a lead of four points on CA Vélez Sársfield .

With the end of the 1953 season, Norberto Yácono's time at River Plate came to an end. He left the club and went to Mexico to Club América in the capital Mexico City , where he continued to play football until 1958, but without achieving great success. In 1958, Norberto Yácono ended his football career at the age of 39.

After the end of his active career, Norberto Yácono worked as a trainer for the Argentine clubs CA Lanús , CD Godoy Cruz and Sportivo Italiano, among others . He also worked as a youth coach at River Plate.

National team

Between 1942 and 1951, Norberto Yácono completed a total of fifteen international matches for the national team of his home country. In these internationals he did not succeed in scoring. After he had made his debut on May 25, 1942 as part of the Copa Lipton in a game against Uruguay , he was called up three years later for the South American Championship in Ecuador in 1947 . The tournament ended for Argentina with first place and thus victory over Paraguay, with Argentina providing both the best attack and the best defense and only having to give up a point in the 1-1 draw against Chile .

successes

• Argentine champion : 6 ×

1941 , 1942 , 1945 , 1947 , 1952 , 1953

• Copa America : 1 ×

1947

Web links

• Norberto Yácono in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile of the player
• Player biography