José Francisco "El Nene" Sanfilippo (born 4 May 1935) is a former

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who played as a striker.

Club career

Sanfilippo was born in

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. During his club career he played for San Lorenzo,

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and Banfield in Argentina, Nacional in Uruguay, and Bangu and SC Bahia in Brazil. Sanfilippo scored his first league goal for San Lorenzo on 21 November 1953 against Banfield, and went on to score 192 league goals for them up to 1962. In 1963, Sanfilippo moved to

, although in 1964 he was dismissed from the club following a disciplinary incident in a match against his former club, San Lorenzo. Sanfilippo joined Uruguayan side Nacional in 1964, after the first round of the

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. He scored against Colo Colo in the only Copa match he played for the club, before getting injured in a friendly match. Sanfilippo is the 5th highest scoring player in Argentine football.

International career

At international level, Sanfilippo played for the

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in the

1958 FIFA World Cup The 1958 FIFA World Cup was the 6th FIFA World Cup, a quadrennial football tournament for men's senior national teams. It was played in Sweden from 8 to 29 June 1958. It was the first and only FIFA World Cup to be played in a Nordic country. Br ...

and the

1962 FIFA World Cup The 1962 FIFA World Cup was the 7th edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international football championship for senior men's national teams. It was held from 30 May to 17 June 1962 in Chile. The qualification rounds took place between ...

. He is the joint ninth-highest goalscorer for the Argentina national football team, alongside Leopoldo Luque, with 22 goals.

Honours

;San Lorenzo * Primera División (3):

1959 Events January * January 1 – Cuba: Fulgencio Batista flees Havana when the forces of Fidel Castro advance. * January 2 – Soviet lunar probe Luna 1 is the first human-made object to attain escape velocity from Earth. It reaches the ...

, 1972 Metropolitano, 1972 Nacional ;Boca Juniors *

runner-up:

1963 Events January * January 1 – Bogle–Chandler case: Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation scientist Dr. Gilbert Bogle and Mrs. Margaret Chandler are found dead (presumed poisoned), in bushland near the Lane Cove ...

;Bahia *

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: 1970, 1971 ;Argentina *

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: 1955 *

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1957 Events January * January 1 – The Saarland joins West Germany. * January 3 – Hamilton Watch Company introduces the first electric watch. * January 5 – South African player Russell Endean becomes the first batsman to be Dismissal (cricke ...

Individual

* Argentine Primera División Top-scorer (4):

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 thir ...

(28 goals),

(31 goals),

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 * Janu ...

(34 goals),

1961 Events January * January 1 – Monetary reform in the Soviet Union, 1961, Monetary reform in the Soviet Union. * January 3 ** United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower announces that the United States has severed diplomatic and cons ...

(26 goals) * Copa América Top-scorer:

* Copa Libertadores Top-scorer:

(7 goals)

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