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Rubén Héctor Sosa (14 November 1936 – 13 September 2008) was an Argentine
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who played for
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in the
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. He was nicknamed ''Marqués'' (
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). He also played in Argentina for
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, Platense and Flandria, in
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for Cerro and
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and in the United States for the Boston Beacons.


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1958 Events January * January 1 – The European Economic Community (EEC) comes into being. * January 3 – The West Indies Federation is formed. * January 4 ** Edmund Hillary's Commonwealth Trans-Antarctic Expedition completes the third ...
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1961 Events January * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and consular relations with Cuba ( Cuba–United States relations are restored in 2015). ** Aero Flight 311 ...
;Argentina *
Copa América The Copa América ( en, America Cup) or CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship (''Campeonato Sudamericano de Fútbol'' in Spanish and ''Campeonato Sul-Americano de Futebol'' in Portuguese), is the t ...
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1959 Events January * January 1 - Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 - Lunar probe Luna 1 was the first man-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reached the vicinity of E ...


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Rubén Héctor Sosa (soccerstats)
1936 births 2008 deaths Argentine men's footballers Argentina men's international footballers Men's association football forwards Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers 1962 FIFA World Cup players Club Atlético Platense footballers C.A. Cerro players Club Nacional de Football players Boston Beacons players Argentine expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Uruguay Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States North American Soccer League (1968–1984) players Copa América-winning players Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Uruguay Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the United States {{Argentina-footy-forward-stub