Marcelo Pagani

Ernesto Marcelo Pagani ( born August 19, 1941 in Santa Fe ) is a former Argentine footballer who was active in Italy and participated with the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1962.

Career

Club career

Marcelo Pagani, who was born in 1941 in Santa Fe, a province in northeast Argentina, started his footballing career at CA Rosario Central. In the 1889 the club was founded Pagani, who played in the position of an attacker to 1961 under contract. Five years after his departure from Rosario 1966, he returned once more to Central back, still made ​​a couple of games and comes to a total of 67 league appearances for the club. However, a title could Pagani with Rosario Central not win until 1971, Rosario was able to crown for the first time to the Argentine master. But by that time was no longer active Marcelo Pagani at the Estadio Gigante de Arroyito, he let 1969 end his career at Audax Italiano La Florida, Chile. Previously, he was employed for several years in Europe's former top league Serie A in Italy. In the summer of 1962, he joined River Plate, where he had kicked in 1962 in thirty league games to Inter Milan, where he came under coach Helenio Herrera, moreover, even Argentines, not a single League game. Nevertheless, Marcelo Pagani celebrated in the jersey of the Nerazzurri the biggest success of his career, when one was in season 1962/63 Italian masters. However, since he did not come into play, Pagani went to the season for FC Messina to Sicily, where it was acquired as rising stars of the league. Marcelo Pagani made ​​but only twelve of thirty possible league games and joined for the season 1964/65 Ozo Mantova, which was also top notch at the time, to. But even in Mantua, the attacker could not enforce properly and also made ​​only twelve games in league play, the club had to end the season descend as Table in the B series.

National

In the years 1961 and 1962 Marcelo Pagani was used as a player from Rosario Central and River Plate in six international matches of the Argentine national soccer team. From coach Juan Carlos Lorenzo he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1962 in neighboring Chile. In the tournament, he was employed in two of the three games of his team. While Pagani stood on the court, both 1-0 in the first match against World Cup newcomer Bulgaria and in the last such, the goalless draw against Hungary, in Argentina's attack, he missed the second game against England, which his team promptly with 1: 3 lost.