Mario Boyé

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Mario Boyé
Personal information
Full name	Mario Emilio Heriberto Boyé Auterio
Date of birth	30 July 1922
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death	July 21, 1992 (aged 69)
Playing position	Striker
Youth clubs
1936-1941	Boca Juniors
Senior clubs1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1941-1949 1949 1950 1950-1953 1954 1955	Boca Juniors Genoa Millonarios Racing Club Huracán Boca Juniors	190 (108) 18 (12) 84 (33) 20 (7) 18 (5)
National team
1945-1951	Argentina	17 (7)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of August 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Mario Emilio Heriberto Boyé Auterio (July 30, 1922 - July 21, 1992) was an Argentine footballer. A powerful striker, he played for Boca Juniors, Racing Club de Avellaneda and Huracán in Argentina, Genoa in Italy and Millonarios in Colombia.

Nicknamed El Atómico (The Atomic), he started playing in the youth division of Boca Juniors to debute in first division on June 8 of 1941 in the victory against Independiente, and scoring his first goal a week later against Huracán. With Boca he won the 1943 and 1944 Argentine leagues, and was the league's top-scorer in 1946 with 24 goals. He moved to Italy were he bacomes "Il Matadore" (The Killer), but returns to Argentina four seasons later. After winning the 1951 league with Racing and playing one season for Huracán, he returned to Boca to retire a year later. He played 228 matches for Boca in all competitions, scoring 124 goals.^[1]

Contents 1 National team 2 After retirement 3 References 4 External links

[edit] National team

For the Argentina national football team he first played at the South American Championship 1945, until his last match was the 1951 frendly against England^{[citation needed]}.

[edit] After retirement

Boyé had a brief spell in charge of Boca Juniors in 1961.

[edit] References

[edit] External links

• Biography (Spanish)
• El 'atómico' Boyé (Spanish)