Hugo Alberto Curioni (born 11 October 1946) is an Argentine former

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who played as a

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. He played professional football in Argentina, France and Mexico.

Argentina

Curioni started his professional career with Instituto de Córdoba in 1969, he was soon spotted by

Boca Juniors Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine sports club headquartered in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its professional football team which, since its promotion in 1913, has always played in the A ...

and signed for them in 1970. In his first season with the club he was part of the

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winning team. He was also equal topscorer in

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1973 with

Oscar Más Oscar Antonio Más (born October 29, 1946) is an Argentine former football striker. He played the majority of his career for River Plate, and is the club's second highest goalscorer of all time. He was born in the city of Villa Ballester in th ...

and

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. Curioni is fondly remembered by Boca fans for his goalscoring feats in the Superclásico derby against fierce rivals River Plate. He shares a record of scoring in six consecutive Superclásicos with

Paulo Valentim Paulo Angelo Valentim (November 20, 1933 – July 9, 1984) was a Brazilian football striker. He played for clubs in Brazil, Argentina and Mexico. Biography Valentim came through the youth team of Guarani de Volta Redonda to make his firs ...

and scored 7 in 11 games overall.

France

Curioni was signed by

Nantes Nantes (, , ; Gallo: or ; ) is a city in Loire-Atlantique on the Loire, from the Atlantic coast. The city is the sixth largest in France, with a population of 314,138 in Nantes proper and a metropolitan area of nearly 1 million inhabita ...

and was the third highest scorer in the French league in 1974–1975. In 1975 Curioni moved to

FC Metz Football Club de Metz, commonly referred to as FC Metz or simply Metz (), is a French association football club based in Metz, Lorraine. The club was formed in 1932 and plays in Ligue 2, the second division in the French football league sys ...

where he was third top scorer in 1975–1976 and 4th top scorer in 1976–1977. He then had spells with

Montpellier Montpellier (, , ; oc, Montpelhièr ) is a city in southern France near the Mediterranean Sea. One of the largest urban centres in the region of Occitania (administrative region), Occitania, Montpellier is the prefecture of the Departments of ...

and

Troyes Troyes () is a commune and the capital of the department of Aube in the Grand Est region of north-central France. It is located on the Seine river about south-east of Paris. Troyes is situated within the Champagne wine region and is near to ...

Later career

Curioni had a spell in Mexico with

Toluca Toluca , officially Toluca de Lerdo , is the States of Mexico, state capital of the State of Mexico as well as the seat of the Municipality of Toluca. With a population of 910,608 as of the 2020 census, Toluca is the fifth most populous city in M ...

and returned to Argentina in March 1980 to finish his career with Gimnasia de La Plata.

Honours

;

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1970 Events January * January 1 – Unix time epoch reached at 00:00:00 UTC. * January 5 – The 7.1 Tonghai earthquake shakes Tonghai County, Yunnan province, China, with a maximum Mercalli intensity scale, Mercalli intensity of X (''Extrem ...

References

External links

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Boca Juniors profile
{{DEFAULTSORT:Curioni, Hugo 1946 births Living people Sportspeople from Córdoba Province, Argentina Argentine people of Italian descent Argentine footballers Association football forwards Argentine Primera División players Instituto footballers Boca Juniors footballers Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata footballers Ligue 1 players FC Nantes players FC Metz players Montpellier HSC players ES Troyes AC players Liga MX players Deportivo Toluca F.C. players Argentine expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Mexico Expatriate footballers in France Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Argentine expatriate sportspeople in France