Domingo Tarasconi
Tarasconi at the Boca Juniors
Domingo Alberto Tarasconi ( born December 20 1903 in Buenos Aires, † July 3, 1991 ) was an Argentine football player who enjoyed great success with the Boca Juniors and the Argentina national football team won three times the Copa America.
Career
Club career
Domingo Tarasconis first stop at senior level was CA Boca Juniors from the working-class neighborhood of La Boca in Argentina's capital Buenos Aires, where he was born in 1903. Tarasconi played from 1922 to 1932 for the Boca Juniors and made in this time 224 official matches in the Argentine championship, scoring 187 goals. He is still the player with the fourth- most goals in the history of Boca Juniors, only behind Martín Palermo ( 228) Roberto Cherro (221) and Francisco Varallo (194 ). After he won in Argentina with the Juniors previously four times the Amateur Championship, Tarasconi was División in 1931 part of the first winning team of the Argentine Primera, the professional league in the country. A year later, in 1932, he left Boca and CA Newell 's Old Boys joined from Rosario, where he however only two games in league play came División Segunda and the club after just one year turned his back. 1934 and 1936 played Domingo Tarasconi nor CA San Martín de Tucumán and the Argentinos Juniors, before he ended his career in 1936 at the age of 33 years.
National
Between 1922 and 1929, Domingo Tarasconi came to a total of 24 missions in the Argentine national soccer team. Here he succeeded in eighteen Torerfolge. In the years 1925, 1927 and 1929, he won the national team of his native country three times the Copa America, at that time still under the name Campeonato Sudamericano. In 1925, Argentina first with two points ahead of Brazil in 1927 with two points ahead of Uruguay and 1929 on home soil with two points ahead of Peru. After the Copa América 1929 ended for Domingo Tarasconi the time in the Argentine national football team and he thus missed the one year later, to be held in Uruguay first World Cup, in which the Argentine team should reach the final and fail only there on the host, just barely. Previously, he was part of the national team of Argentina, which had taken part in the Summer Olympic Games in Amsterdam in 1928. After victories over the United States, Belgium and Egypt, they stood in the final against Uruguay, which was, however, lost by a 1-2 defeat in the return leg after the final first leg had ended 1-1 draw. In the whole tournament, but Domingo Tarasconi scored eleven goals in the final none. He was through these eleven goals well ahead of the Italians Adolfo Baloncieri and his compatriot Manuel Ferreira, who had ever met six times, top scorer in the Olympics.
Achievements
- Argentine Football Championship: 5x (1923, 1924, 1926, 1930, 1931)
- Copa Ibarguren: 2x (1923, 1924)
- Copa de Competencia Jockey Club: 1x (1925 )
- Copa estímulo: 1x (1926 )
- Scorer of the Championship: 4x (1922, 1923, 1924, 1927)
- Scorer of the Olympic football tournament: 1x (1928 )
- Copa América: 3x (1925, 1927, 1929)