Carlos Alberto Raffo
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Carlos Alberto Raffo Vallaco | ||
Date of birth | 10 April 1926 | ||
Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Date of death | 18 September 2013 | (aged 87)||
Place of death | Guayaquil, Ecuador | ||
Position(s) | Striker | ||
Youth career | |||
Platense | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1940–1952 | Platense | ||
1952–1954 | Argentina de Quito | ||
1954–1963 | Emelec | (132) | |
1964 | Everest | (6) | |
1965 | 9 de Octubre | (7) | |
International career | |||
1959–1963 | Ecuador | 13 | (10) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of March 2008 |
Carlos Alberto Raffo (April 10, 1926 – September 18, 2013) was an Argentine football striker who played international football for Ecuador. He had health conditions and died at a Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador at age of 87.[1]
Club career
Born in Buenos Aires, Raffo started his playing career with Club Atlético Platense in Argentina. In 1952 he moved to Ecuador to play for Argentina de Quito (now Deportivo Quito). In 1954 he joined Emelec where he would play many seasons, scoring 132 goals. In his later years he played for Everest and 9 de Octubre.
Raffo is considered to be one of the greatest goalscorers in the history of the Ecuadorian football, but the precise number of goals he scored will probably never be known, due to poor record keeping in the early 1950s.
International career
Raffo played international football for Ecuador between 1959 and 1963, he scored 10 goals in 13 games for his adoptive country.[2] He was the top scorer in the Copa América in 1963. He is the only Ecuador player ever to achieve this feat to date.
Honours
Season | Team | Title |
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1956 | Emelec | Copa Guayaquil |
1957 | Emelec | Campeonato Ecuatoriano |
1957 | Emelec | Copa Guayaquil |
1961 | Emelec | Campeonato Ecuatoriano |
1962 | Emelec | Copa Guayaquil |
- Topscorer in Copa América in 1963: 6 goals
- Topscorer in Campeonato Ecuatoriano 1963
References
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- 1926 births
- 2013 deaths
- Sportspeople from Buenos Aires
- Argentine emigrants to Ecuador
- Association football forwards
- Argentine footballers
- Ecuadorian footballers
- Ecuadorian Serie A players
- Club Atlético Platense footballers
- S.D. Quito footballers
- C.S. Emelec footballers
- C.D. Everest footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Ecuador
- Ecuador international footballers
- Ecuadorian football forward stubs
- Argentine football forward stubs