Full name Roberto Eugenio Cerro Name Roberto Cherro Role Football player | Years Team | |
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Date of birth (1907-02-23)23 February 1907 Date of death 11 October 1965(1965-10-11) (aged 58) Died October 11, 1965, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Place of birth Barracas, Argentina | ||
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Roberto Eugenio Cerro, named "Cherro" (23 February 1907 – 11 October 1965) was an Argentine football striker. He was born in Barracas in the city of Buenos Aires in Argentina. He played the majority of his career with Boca Juniors, he scored 221 goals in 305 games for the club (in all official competitions), making him Boca Juniors' highest scoring player until his record was surpassed by Martín Palermo in 2010.
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Cherro won five league titles with Boca, he was the clubs top scorer on five occasions, and the top scorer in the Argentine Primera División on three occasions during the amateur era of Argentine football (1926, 1928 and 1930).
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International career
Cherro won the Copa América in 1929 with the Argentina national football team.
On 5 February 1933, Cherro famously scored all four goals in a 4–1 win over arch enemies Uruguay.