Rogelio Domínguez

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Rogelio Domínguez
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Personal information
Full name Rogelio Antonio Domínguez
Date of birth March 9, 1931
Place of birth    Buenos Aires, Argentina
Playing position Goalkeeper
Youth clubs
1946-1948 River Plate
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1948-1956
1957-1962
1962-1963
1964-1965
1966
1966-1968		 Racing Club
Real Madrid
River Plate
Vélez Sársfield
CA Cerro
Nacional		    
National team
1951-1963 Argentina  ? (?)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of July 2007.
* Appearances (Goals)

Rogelio Antonio Domínguez (9 March 1931 - July 23, 2004) was an Argentine football goalkeeper who played for Real Madrid and was part of their European Cup victories in 1959 and 1960. He was in Argentina's squad for the 1962 FIFA World Cup.

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[edit] Biography

Domínguez was discovered during a match by the cofounder of the famous Club River Plate, Carlos Peucelle, who persuaded Dominguez to begin to train at River Plate in March 1946. He was a 17 year old teenager when he was discovered by delegates of the Racing Club of Avellaneda and he was signed immediately.

In 1957 Domínguez signed for Real Madrid in Spain, after several successful seasons with the club he returned to South America where he played for River Plate and Vélez Sársfield in Argentina, and then CA Cerro and Nacional in Uruguay.

[edit] International career

In 1951 he won the Panamerican Championship playing for the Argentina national football team; to which he'd belonged for 12 years, from 1951 to 1963. He was chosen Best America's Goalkeeper for two consecutive seasons, in 1956 and 1957 and was part of the triumphant team that claimed the 1957 Copa América title.

[edit] After playing

After 20 years at the top of world-wide football he quit playing at the age of forty in 1970 and become manager of San Lorenzo, Argentine National Sub-champion in 1971, Chacarita Juniors (1972), Boca Juniors (1973-1975) and many other clubs including Gimnasia de La Plata, Club Atlético Tucumán, Loma Negra, Quilmes and Racing Club.

Domínguez died of a heart attack on July 23, 2004 in the Hospital Piñeyro of the Flores district of Buenos Aires.

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