AnÃbal Tarabini
Tarabini 1967 at Independiente
Roberto Aníbal Tarabini (* August 4, 1941 in La Plata, † April 21, 1997 in Berazategui ) was an Argentine football player, who participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1966.
He is the father of the Argentine tennis player Patricia Tarabini who participated three times in the Olympic Games and 2004 together with Paola Suárez won the bronze medal in Athens in mixed competition.
Career
Club career
Aníbal Tarabinis career as an active soccer player began in 1960 with Estudiantes de La Plata in his hometown. In Estudiantes he could not show off himself and changed in 1962 after only eleven league games in two years to CA Temperley to find time in Argentina's second highest league. Here Tarabini became a regular player and came 1962-1965 to 120 games in league play. The striker thereby pass sixty gates, corresponding to an average of 0.5 goals per game. Through his achievements in Temperley he aroused the interest of CA Independiente, a top club of La Liga from the bonarenser suburb Avellaneda. In 1966 he was finally removed from the previously two times Copa Libertadores winners under contract. By 1970 Tarabini played 163 times in La Liga, scoring 77 goals. During this time, Aníbal Tarabini Independiente won with twice the Argentine football championship. In National Competition 1967, was first with two points ahead of Estudiantes de La Plata. Three years later, in Tarabinis Independiente last season, they won the Campeonato Metropolitano tied by a first rank and with only goal difference against giants River Plate.
1971 left Aníbal Tarabini Independiente and joined Boca Juniors in Buenos Aires, where he played football for a year and came up with seventeen league bets. In the same year he moved to Mexico to Torreón CF to graduate there in three years, fifty-five league games in which he scored twenty-three hits. In 1973, he ventured to the career finale to move to Europe and played for a year in the French Division 1 at AS Monaco, finishing with the Monegasque the sixteenth place in the table, the relegation was avoided only on goal difference. After the 1973/74 season Aníbal Tarabini ended his active career.
Later Aníbal Tarabini long time worked as an assistant coach José Pastoriza, with whom he once played together at Independiente. On 21 April 1997 Aníbal Tarabini died in a traffic accident near the Argentine city Berazategui in Buenos Aires.
National
Aníbal Tarabini was used 1962-1966 in six international matches of the Argentine national soccer team. Here he managed a score. From coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo, he was appointed to the squad for the World Cup in England in 1966, but was not in the tournament are used. The Argentine team, however, survived the group stage in second place behind Germany and ahead of Spain and Switzerland, and finally failed in the quarterfinals at the hosts and eventual champions England.