Domingo Tarasconi

Domingo Tarasconi

Tarasconi during his tenure with Boca Juniors
Personal information
Full nameDomingo Alberto Tarasconi
Date of birth20 December 1903
Place of birthBuenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death3 July 1991 (aged 87)
Playing positionForward
Youth career
Atlanta
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1922-32Boca Juniors226(187)
1933Newell's Old Boys2(0)
1934San Martín (T)?(?)
1936Argentinos Juniors8(0)
National team
1922—29Argentina24(18)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Domingo Alberto Tarasconi (20 December 1903 — 3 July 1991) was an Argentine football forward. He played most of his career for Boca Juniors where he was Club topscorer on 5 occasions and Primera División topscorer on 5 occasions (1922, 1923, 1924 and 1934).

Club career

Tarasconi won 10 titles with Boca Juniors and 3 Copa América with the Argentina national team. He played 24 games for Argentina netting 18 goals between 1922 and 1929. He also played in the 1928 Olympic games where he finished as tournament top scorer.[1] Tarasconi is still the 13th highest scoring player in the history of the Argentina national football team.

Tarasconi scored a total of 193 goals for Boca Juniors, ranking 4th. among the highest scoring players in the history of the club, behind Martín Palermo, Francisco Varallo and Roberto Cherro.

After leaving Boca in 1932 Tarasconi played two games for Newell's Old Boys and then moved to disident amateur league where he was topscorer in its final season, with San Martín de Tucumán in 1934.

Tarasconi played his last game in 1936 for Argentinos Juniors.

Titles

Club

Boca Juniors

National team

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