Carmelo Simeone
Carmelo Simeone jersey of Boca Juniors
Carmelo Simeone ( born September 22, 1933, Ciudadela, Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine football player, who participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1966.
Career
Club career
Carmelo Simeone began playing football at the Argentine capital club CA Velez Sarsfield, where he made his debut in the first team in league play the Primera División in 1955. For the former middle class club he made 1955-1961 164 league games in the first Argentine football league, scoring not succeed in doing. 1961 changed the midfielder to the Boca Juniors, River Plate next to the popular Argentine club. On the side of the other top players of the time such as goalkeeper Antonio Roma defender Silvio Marzolini and midfielder Antonio Rattín Simeone won three Argentine football championship with Boca. 1962 took the team from the working-class neighborhood of La Boca in first place in the table with two points ahead of the eternal rivals River Plate. After only third in the following season when winning the title of Independiente Avellaneda, succeeded in 1964 again the triumph in La Liga by a first rank, eight points ahead of Independiente. This time, the Boca Juniors were able to defend their title and occupied in 1965 the place at the top of the table, a counter in front of River Plate. This title was the last for Carmelo Simeone with Boca Juniors, left after two years without a title of the now 34 -year-old to the club in 1967 in the direction of unterklassigen Club Sportivo Belgrano, where he finished out his career in the year.
National
Between 1959 and 1966 Carmelo Simeone six times was used in the Argentine national soccer team. In the first year of its national time he played with the Argentine selection, the Copa America in their own country, which could make victorious. Seven years later Simeone participated in another major international tournament, namely the Football World Cup 1966 in England. At the tournament in the motherland of football he was not used. His team, however, reached the second round where the future world champions and hosts England represented an insurmountable hurdle.