Ramón Quiroga Arancibia (born 23 July 1950) is a Peruvian former
football
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player and coach. A
goalkeeper
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, he obtained 40 caps playing for the
Peru national football team
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.
He is currently a youth coach for the Peruvian club
Cienciano
Club Sportivo Cienciano is a professional football club based in Cusco, Peru that currently plays in the Peruvian Primera División.
The club was founded in 1901 by a group of students of the ''Colegio Nacional Ciencias del Cusco'' (National S ...
.
Club career
He began his career playing for the Argentine club
Rosario Central
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.
International career
Quiroga is perhaps best remembered for his appearance at the
1978 FIFA World Cup
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The Cup was won by t ...
in a match against
Poland
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, when he ran all the way to the opposition half and fouled
Grzegorz Lato
Grzegorz Bolesław Lato (Polish pronunciation: ; born 8 April 1950) is a Polish former professional football player and manager who played as a winger. He was a member of Poland's golden generation of football players who rose to fame in the 1 ...
, receiving a
yellow card
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in the process. In that tournament, he also conceded 6 goals in the match against
Argentina
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, the country of his birth.
Ramón Quiroga: "En aquel 6 a 0 vimos cosas raras"
- La Nación
References
External links
at The Guardian football website
RPP Noticias
*
1950 births
Living people
Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe
Argentine people of Galician descent
Peruvian people of Galician descent
Peruvian people of Argentine descent
Sportspeople of Argentine descent
Argentine emigrants to Peru
Naturalized citizens of Peru
Association football goalkeepers
Argentine footballers
Peruvian footballers
Peru international footballers
1978 FIFA World Cup players
1982 FIFA World Cup players
Peruvian Primera División players
Argentine Primera División players
Rosario Central footballers
Sporting Cristal footballers
Club Atlético Independiente footballers
Barcelona S.C. footballers
Colegio Nacional Iquitos footballers
Club Universitario de Deportes footballers
Peruvian expatriate footballers
Expatriate footballers in Argentina
Expatriate footballers in Ecuador
Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador
Argentine football managers
Peruvian football managers
Club Universitario de Deportes managers
Cienciano managers
Deportivo Municipal managers
León de Huánuco managers
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