Domingo Alberto Tarasconi (20 December 1903 – 3 July 1991) was an Argentine

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. Raising from

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, he played most of his career for

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where he won 9 official titles and became the all-time 4th. He was also a top scorer in the history of the club behind

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.Los diez máximos goleadores de la historia de Boca
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on ''El Gráfico'', 23 Sep 2021 Apart from those achievements with the club, Tarasconi was Primera División topscorer on five occasions between 1922 and 1934, being also one of the all-time top scorers in the league, having scored 208 goals in 289 matches between 1921 and 1934. Tarasconi also played for the

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, winning the silver medal and being topscorer of the

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held in

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with 11 goals in 4 matches. His outstanding performance in the competition still holds a record. With Argentina, he also won two

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titles in

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. Tarasconi was also mentioned in the

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''Patadura'', released in 1928 and performed by legend

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Career

Tarasconi's first steps in football were in

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, where he debuted in

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.Domingo Tarascone
biography on Fútbol Factory (archived) One season later he moved to

where he became one of the all-time top scorers not only of the club but of Primera División. During his ten years in the team, Tarasconi played 226 official matches, scoring 186 goals. He also won 9 titles with Boca Juniors.Domingo Tarasconi biography and statistics
on Historia de Boca He scored 7 goals in the successful 1925 tour to Europe being the 2nd scorer of the tour behind

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. He was also top scorer of Primera División in

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After Tarasconi left Boca Juniors in 1932 there are no records of any match played by him until

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where he joinded

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, which played in the official association (AFA) that remained amateur opposed to dissident

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(LAF), the first professional league in the country. Tarasconi only played 6 matches there with no goals scored before moving to General San Martín , where he played 20 matches with 16 goals within the same season. In 1935 Tarasconi moved to

, finishing his career in

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, where he played 8 matches in the

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season before retiring from the activity. Tarasconi won 9 titles with

and two

with the Argentina national team. He played 24 games for Argentina, netting 18 goals between 1922 and 1929. He also played in the

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where he finished as tournament top scorer. Tarasconi is still the 13th highest scoring player in the history of the Argentina national football team.

Titles

Boca Juniors

* Primera División (5):

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, 1931 LAF *

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(2):

* Copa Competencia Jockey Club (1):

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Argentina

(2):

(1):

Silver Medal

Individual

* Topscorer: **

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(11 goals) ** Primera División:

In popular culture

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singer and legend

performed the song ''Patadura'', a humorous tango released in 1928 that used football as a metaphor to describe to ineptitude of the person described in the song. The word ''patadura'' is a local term currently used to describe a person with no skills to play football. The song (with lyrics by Enrique Carreras Sotelo and music by José López Ares) named Tarasconi (calling him by his nickname ''Tarasca'') "to score a goal from the middle of the field", referring to Tarasconi's strong shot and accuracy. Other notable footballers of those times mentioned in the song are

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(who was also friend of Gardel, who composed the tango ''Ochoíta'' in his honor). Gardel then recorded a new version of ''Patadura'' in 1929 in Paris, where the lyrics where slightly changed replacing the original Argentine footballers by players of

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) with whom Gardel had established a friendshipPatadura, un tango emblemático
by John Cardona Arteaga, University of Antioquia (especially with Samitier) apart of becoming a fan of the team.
''Clarín'', 1 Feb 2021 Gardel was also honorary member of the club, having attended some matches such as the 1928 Copa del Rey Final.La historia de amor entre Carlos Gardel y el Barcelona
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