Silvio Marzolini

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Silvio Marzolini
Silvioposter.jpg
Marzolini playing for the Argentina national team, c. 1966
Personal information
Date of birth(1940-10-04)4 October 1940
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death 17 July 2020(2020-07-17) (aged 79)
Place of death Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Left-back
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1959 Ferro Carril Oeste 53 (0)
1960–1972 Boca Juniors 387 (10)
Total440(10)
International career
1960–1969 Argentina 28 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
Marzolini (left) coached Diego Maradona in 1981 Marzolini maradona 1981.jpg
Marzolini (left) coached Diego Maradona in 1981

Silvio Marzolini (4 October 1940 – 17 July 2020) [1] [2] was an Argentine footballer who gained recognition during his tenure on Boca Juniors (1960–72). He is widely regarded as the best Argentine left-back of all time, [3] [4] playing that position for the Argentina national team in the 1962 FIFA World Cup and the 1966 FIFA World Cup, where he was elected as the best left back of that tournament. [5] Marzolini played a total of 28 games for Argentina.

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Playing career

Marzolini's first steps as footballer were in Deportivo Italiano, soon moving to the young divisions of Ferro Carril Oeste in 1955. After a discussion with the club managers asking to play in the senior team, Marzolini was suspended for two years. Nevertheless, he debuted in Primera División in May 1959, playing against Boca Juniors, that would hire him the following year.

Marzolini debuted with Boca on 3 April 1960 against Estudiantes de La Plata, defeating it by 2–1. Boca finished third at the end of the season, with Marzolini playing all of the games.

In 1961 Marzolini scored his first goal in the top division, but Boca did not have a great campaign, finishing fifth. Marzolini played a total of 29 games scoring 2 goals. The first achievement came in 1962 when Boca won the title, [6] with notable players such as goalkeeper Antonio Roma, Brazilian striker Paulo Valentim and Norberto Menéndez. Boca finished first with 42 points. Marzolini was also the most capped player of the season with 28 games played.

Marzolini was named as left-back in the 1966 FIFA World Cup team of the tournament while Argentina was eliminated at the quarter final stage.

Managerial career

After retiring as a player, Marzolini became manager of All Boys where he stayed from 1975 to 1976. In 1981 Marzolini returned to Boca Juniors, with which he won the 1981 Metropolitano with superstar Diego Maradona as the outstanding player of the team. Other notable players for Boca were Miguel Brindisi, goalkeeper Hugo Gatti and defender Oscar Ruggeri.

Legacy

In a 2007 interview with FourFourTwo magazine, English great Bobby Charlton named him in his dream eleven, describing him as a player who "wasn’t that fast, but his positioning was so good he didn’t need to be", and that he had "such good control that it gave him time and space to play the ball away safely". [7]

Personal life and death

Marzolini suffered a stroke in 2019 and was later diagnosed with cancer. He died on 17 July 2020, at the age of 79. [8] [9] [1]

Honours

Player

Boca Juniors

Argentina

Individual

Manager

Boca Juniors

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References

  1. 1 2 Marzolini, un crack de todos los tiempos by Daniel Guiñazú on Página/12, 17 July 2020
  2. ↑ Murió Silvio Marzolini a los 79 años, Olé, 17 July 2020
  3. ↑ "Recorrida por los 90 años de El Gráfico", El Gráfico , 30 May 2009
  4. ↑ "Silvio Marzolini rompió el molde", El Gráfico, 30 November 2012
  5. ↑ "Marzolini todavía tiene la espina clavada por Rattin", Clarín, 29 May 2014
  6. ↑ Argentina 1962 on RSSSF
  7. ↑ Moore, Nick (1 March 2007). "Bobby Charlton: Perfect XI". FourFourTwo . Retrieved 13 July 2021.
  8. ↑ Silvio Marzolini, exjugador de Boca, se encuentra en grave estado de salud on Todo Noticias, 13 July 2020
  9. ↑ Silvio Marzolini se encuentra en estado crítico por un cáncer by Paulina Pereyra on Via País 14 July 2020
  10. ↑ "FIFA World Cup All-Star Team – Football world Cup All Star Team". Football Sporting 99. Archived from the original on 30 June 2016. Retrieved 28 June 2012.
  11. ↑ "IFFHS ALL TIME ARGENTINA MEN'S DREAM TEAM". 26 August 2021.
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