Ricardo Infante

Ricardo Infante
Ricardo Infante
Personnel
Surname	Ricardo Roberto Infante
birthday	June 21, 1924
place of birth	La Plata ,  Argentina
date of death	December 14, 2008
Place of death	La Plata ,  Argentina
position	striker
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1942-1952	Estudiantes de La Plata	329 (180)
1953-1956	CA Huracan	94 0(31)
1957-1960	Estudiantes de La Plata
1961	Gimnasia y Esgrima LP	16 00(6)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
1952-1958	Argentina	5 00(2)
1 Only league games are given.

Ricardo Roberto Infante (born June 21, 1924 in La Plata , † December 14, 2008 there ) was an Argentine football player. He took part in the 1958 World Cup with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Ricardo Infante's Rabona Gate (not in the picture)

Ricardo Infante began his football career in 1942 with Estudiantes de La Plata in his hometown. With the club, where he played with other Argentine football greats of the time such as Manuel Pellegrina or Gabriel Ogando , he did not win a title in the Primera División , the top division in Argentine football, but scored 180 goals in 328 games for Estudiantes and is still the sixth best player in terms of number of goals in the Argentine first division. Adding all of his goals in the Primera División, he has 217 goals in 439 games. His goal in a championship game against Rosario Central on September 19, 1948 (final score: 2-0), when Infante sank the ball into the goal with the Rabona trick from thirty-five meters is also famous . Overall, he stayed with Estudiantes until 1952 before moving to CA Huracán in Buenos Aires . He stayed there for another four years before returning to Estudiantes de La Plata and playing football for his home club for four years until 1960. There he again scored a lot of goals and is now the player with the second-most goals behind Manuel Pellegrina in the Estudiantes club rankings. In 1961 he left Estudiantes again and let his career end the following year at Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata , the local rival of his old club. In 1961 he ended his career and became a youth coach in La Plata. For a short time in 1960 he also coached the first team of Estudiantes de La Plata as a player-coach.

National team

In the Argentine national soccer team Ricardo Infante was used five times between 1952 and 1958. He scored two goals in these five games. Argentina coach Guillermo Stábile , himself top scorer at the 1930 World Cup in Uruguay , called him into the South American squad for the 1958 World Cup in Sweden. In the tournament, however, Infante was not used. Meanwhile, the tournament ended for his team after the preliminary round, because in a group with defending champions Germany , Northern Ireland and Czechoslovakia the last place in the table was occupied after only one win (3-1 against Northern Ireland).

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