Américo Ruffino (

Buenos Aires Buenos Aires ( or ; ), officially the Autonomous City of Buenos Aires ( es, link=no, Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos Aires), is the capital and primate city of Argentina. The city is located on the western shore of the Río de la Plata, on South ...

, 27 July 1905 –

, 4 July 1988) was an

Argentine Argentines (mistakenly translated Argentineans in the past; in Spanish (masculine) or (feminine)) are people identified with the country of Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical or cultural. For most Argentines, s ...

football Football is a family of team sports that involve, to varying degrees, kicking a ball to score a goal. Unqualified, the word ''football'' normally means the form of football that is the most popular where the word is used. Sports commonly c ...

player. Ruffino spent the vast majority of his career with the

Palermo Palermo ( , ; scn, Palermu , locally also or ) is a city in southern Italy, the capital (political), capital of both the autonomous area, autonomous region of Sicily and the Metropolitan City of Palermo, the city's surrounding metropolitan ...

team. A winger, he scored the first

Serie A The Serie A (), also called Serie A TIM for national sponsorship with TIM, is a professional league competition for football clubs located at the top of the Italian football league system and the winner is awarded the Scudetto and the Coppa ...

goal in the history of the Sicilian team ( 1932–33 season,

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-Palermo 1-1).

External links

Profile at Enciclopedia Del Calcio
{{DEFAULTSORT:Ruffino, Americo 1905 births 1988 deaths Footballers from Buenos Aires Argentine footballers Association football midfielders Torino F.C. players Palermo F.C. players Trapani Calcio players Potenza S.C. players Serie A players Serie B players Argentine expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Italy