Osvaldo Potente (born 16 November 1951 in
Buenos Aires
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) is a retired
Argentine
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football
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striker. He played club football in
Argentina
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and
Bolivia
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as well as representing the
Argentina national team on three occasions.
Career
Potente started his career in 1971 and went on to become one of
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 ...
' most prolific goalscorers. In his two spells with the club he managed 79 goals in 195 league games, leaving him in 11th place in the list of
Boca Juniors topscorers This article includes statistics of Boca Juniors all-time top goal scorers.
Martín Palermo is Boca Juniors all time goal scorer with 236 goals, 193 of those goals were scored in Argentine Primera División tournaments and the other 43 in Interna ...
. Potente is fondly remembered by the Boca Juniors fans for the fact that he scored a total of 7 goals in
superclásico derby matches against fierce rivals
River Plate. he is still tied with
Hugo Curioni
Hugo Alberto Curioni (born 11 October 1946) is an Argentine former Association football, footballer who played as a centre forward. He played professional football in Argentina, France and Mexico.
Argentina
Curioni started his professional caree ...
as Boca's 2nd most prolific player in the superclásico.
One of Potente's finest superclásico moments came on July 27, 1975 when he played against River Plate at
River Plate Stadium
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wearing a Boca shirt with number 10 on the back. Potente got his revenge by scoring Boca's winning goal from a free kick.
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In 1976 Potente fell out of favour with the new Boca manager Juan Carlos Lorenzo
Juan Carlos "Toto" Lorenzo (; 27 October 1922 – 14 November 2001) was an Argentine football player and coach. He became an icon for Boca Juniors fans after he coached the club to its first two Copa Libertadores titles.
Biography
In his teens, ...
and left the club to join Rosario Central
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and then Bolivia
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n team The Strongest
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Founded in 1908, their team colours are yellow and black. Although they have a home ground, Estadio Rafae ...
.
In 1978 Potente returned to Boca, but he never recovered the form that gave him so many goals in the early 70s. He retired from playing in July 1980.
After retirement Potente had a brief spell as interim head coach of Boca Juniors in 1993.
References
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1951 births
Living people
Footballers from Buenos Aires
Argentine people of Italian descent
Argentine men's footballers
Men's association football forwards
Boca Juniors footballers
Rosario Central footballers
The Strongest players
Argentine Primera División players
Argentine expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Bolivia
Argentine football managers
Boca Juniors managers
Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Bolivia
Pan American Games medalists in football
Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
Footballers at the 1971 Pan American Games
Medalists at the 1971 Pan American Games