Alberto Marcovecchio
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| Full name | Alberto Andrés Marcovecchio | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | March 6, 1893 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Avellaneda, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | February 28, 1958 (aged 64) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Lanús, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
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| Porteño | |||||||||||||||||
| 1910–1912 | Racing Club | ||||||||||||||||
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| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1912–1922 | Racing Club | 169 | (118) | ||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1912–1919 | Argentina | 12 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Alberto Andrés Marcovecchio (March 6, 1893 – February 28, 1958) was an Argentine football player that spent all his career at Racing Club de Avellaneda. He played as a forward.[1]
He was part of the outstanding Racing Club squad that won 8 titles between 1913 and 1921, 7 of them consecutively.[1][2]
Between 1913 and 1922, he scored 118 goals in the Argentine Primera División,[3] finishing as the top scorer in 1917 and 1919.[1] Throughout his career, he scored scored 287 goals in official matches.[1]
After playing for a minor team of his neighborhood (Porteño),[1] Marcovecchio started his youth career at Racing in 1910.[4] Two years later he was promoted to the Primera División, starting a career that led him to win 20 trophies with the club.[4]
In 1917, Marchovecchio was the season's top scorer with 18 goals in 20 games.[5] In 1921, he won his last title with Racing Club before leaving football due to an injury.[1]
International career
With the Argentina national team, Marcovecchio played 12 games, making his debut in December 1912 against Uruguay.[6] He was called up for the 1916 South American Championship and debuted against Chile, scoring two goals.[7] His international career ended in 1919,[6] when he represented Argentina in the Newton and Lipton Cups.
