Norberto Boggio

Norberto Constante Boggio ( born August 11, 1931 in Santa Fe ) is a former Argentine footballer. With the national team of his native country, he participated in the Football World Cup 1958.

Career

Club career

Norberto Boggio began his footballing career in 1949 at CA Banfield from the same town in the province of Buenos Aires. In the club he played, among others, along with Eliseo Mouriño, who was at the same time as Boggio Argentine national team, which played at the time for players from CA Banfield, the club then the bottom of the Primera División and was his first championship until half a century later win was not necessarily self-evident. By the year 1956 Norberto Boggio remained in Banfield and completed 82 games in league play for the club, in which get him 33 goals. From 1957 Boggio then played for San Lorenzo de Almagro in Buenos Aires. In his third season at San Lorenzo de Almagro, where he played for, among others, along with other Argentine or even foreign football stars of the era such as José Sanfilippo, Ángel Berni or Héctor Facundo, Norberto Boggio scored his first and only national championship in career, when his team in the Primera División first place with seven points clear of Racing Club Avellaneda from finished and there remained unbeaten over the entire season. This title was San Lorenzo de Almagro eligible to participate in the Copa Libertadores in 1960, making the club one of the club is taking part in the main football competition of the Erstaustragung for club teams in South America. 1962 ended Norberto Boggio his career in the jersey of San Lorenzo de Almagro. In 1970 he returned once for a short time back on the football field and played for the Mexican club Atlante.

National

In the Argentine national football team Norberto Boggio was used eleven times 1958-1961. In these eleven games he managed no goals. From Argentina coach Guillermo Stábile he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1958 in Sweden. In the world tournament, he was used in a game his team in the second group match against Northern Ireland in Argentina succeeded in the only victory, he rushed to the side of, among others, and Omar Corbatta Ludovico Avio. The Argentine team failed at the World Cup, however, already after the first round after the remaining two games against the reigning world champions Germany and Czechoslovakia were lost.