Rinaldo Martino

Rinaldo Martino

Rinaldo Fioramonte Martino ( born November 6, 1921 in Rosario, † November 15, 2000 in Buenos Aires ) was an Argentine football player.

Career

Club career

Rinaldo Martino began his footballing career in 1941 at the club San Lorenzo de Almagro in Buenos Aires, after he had the youth departments of CA Belgrano de Rosario, a smaller club of his hometown through. For San Lorenzo, he played 223 games in the Primera División, the highest Argentine football league, scoring 142 goals. In the 1942 season Martino was in 30 games the Primera División scorer with 25 goals. In 1946 he won with San Lorenzo, where at that time also played, among other Ángel Zubieta and René Pontoni, the Argentine soccer championship by a first place in the table with four points ahead of the Boca Juniors. In 1949, he left San Lorenzo de Almagro and went to Europe to Juventus. There he played for a year very successful football and won the Serie A 1949/50, the first season after the crash of the great team of the previously dominant Torino, in which all Mannschaftsmitlieder were killed, five points ahead of AC Milan. Rinaldo Martino get into this one season in Italy 18 goals in 33 games. Despite these good odds he moved after just one year at Juventus Turin at Nacional Montevideo Uruguay. With the club he won twice, 1950 and 1952, the Uruguayan championship and played here three years with a short break when he was active for one year for the Boca Juniors. In 1953, Martino end his playing career at CA Cerro.

National

Rinaldo Martino made ​​caps for both the Argentine and the Italian national football team. In 1942 he made ​​his debut, at that time playing for San Lorenzo, in the selection of Argentina 's 4-1 victory against the world champion of 1930, Uruguay. Martino was part of the Argentine team that could win the victory in the 1945 Campeonato Sudamericano. The Campeonato Sudamericano 1946 he won with Argentina, where the title was successful this time without a single point loss. The honor to participate in a World Cup, Rinaldo Martino but had not since 1938-1950 took place no world tournaments because of the Second World War and his best footballing time was up to that period. He almost did, however, but can still participate in the World Cup, for he made 1949 one match for Italy, where after the crash of the Grande Torino, which accounted for the bulk of the national team, were just looking for good players. It remained for Martino, however, in the one game, he was not nominated by national coach Ferruccio Novo for the Football World Cup 1950 in Brazil.

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