footballer
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that played as
right winger
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Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
Newell's Old Boys
Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys () is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario, Santa Fe. The club was founded on 3 November 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell of the English county of Kent, one of the pioneers of Argentine football.
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in 1955, playing there until 1957. Nicknamed ''Motoneta'' because of his speed, Nardiello would be soon called up to play with the Argentina national team
Nardiello then moved to Boca Juniors, where he debuted on July 1958. He was part of the team that won the
1962 Argentine Primera División
The 1962 Argentine Primera División was the 71st season of top-flight football in Argentina. The season began on March 25 and ended on December 12.Antonio Roma,
Juan José Pizzuti
Juan José Pizzuti (9 May 1927 – 24 January 2020) was an Argentine football player and manager. A striker, he enjoyed his most notable successes as player and manager with Racing Club de Avellaneda.
Pizzuti was born in the Barracas neighbou ...
, and Brazilian forwards Paulo Valentim, Mauro Rapahel (''Maurinho''), and Almir Moraes Albuquerque. He stayed in Boca Juniors for two years, playing 29 matches with 21 goals scored in Primera División.
After his tenure on Boca Juniors, Nardiello then played for Estudiantes de La Plata,
Chacarita Juniors
Club Atlético Chacarita Juniors (usually known simply as Chacarita) is an Argentine football club headquartered in Villa Crespo, Buenos Aires, while the stadium is located in Villa Maipú, General San Martín Partido of Greater Buenos Aires.
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, and San Lorenzo de Mar del Plata.Osvaldo Nardiello on BDFA.com In local football, he played a total of 240 matches scoring 71 goals. In the Argentina national team, Nardiello played 12 matches scoring five goals, three of them to
Brazil
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.
Nardiello was also famous for his addition to
tobacco
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, he died after being six days in a coma. He had been an emergency operation due to a
peritonitis
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1962
Events January
* January 1 – Western Samoa becomes independent from New Zealand.
* January 3 – Pope John XXIII excommunicates Fidel Castro for preaching communism.
* January 8 – Harmelen train disaster: 93 die in the wor ...
Panamerican Championship
The Panamerican Championship was an international football tournament held by the Panamerican Football Confederation every four years with three editions held from 1952 through 1960.
(1):
1960
It is also known as the "Year of Africa" because of major events—particularly the independence of seventeen African nations—that focused global attention on the continent and intensified feelings of Pan-Africanism.
Events
January
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