Miguel Ángel Raimondo Explained

Miguel Ángel Raimondo
Fullname:Miguel Ángel Raimondo
Birth Date:12 December 1943
Birth Place:Rosario, Argentina
Position:Midfielder
Years1:1965
Years2:1966–1968
Years3:1969–1974
Years4:1975
Years5:1976
Caps1:16
Caps2:107
Caps3:219
Caps4:42
Caps5:30
Goals1:0
Goals2:5
Goals3:0
Goals4:0
Goals5:1
Nationalyears1:1970–1972
Nationalcaps1:10
Nationalgoals1:1

Miguel Ángel Raimondo (born 12 December 1943) is an Argentine football midfielder. He won ten trophies in his career, eight with Club Atlético Independiente and a further two with River Plate, he was awarded the Olimpia de Plata as the 1974 Argentine sports journalist's footballer of the year.[1]

Raimondo played his first professional game for Rosario Central in the Primera Division Argentina in 1965. One year later he was transferred to Atlanta where he played until the end of the 1968 season.

In 1969, he joined Club Atlético Independiente, it was with Independiente that he had most of his success as a player, while he was there the club won two league championships, three (of their four in a row) Copa Libertadores titles, two Copa Interamericanas and an Intercontinental Cup.

Raimondo was selected as the Player of the Year of Argentina in 1974.

In 1975 Raimondo joined River Plate, he was only with the club for one season but in that time he helped the club to win both of the Argentine league titles that year.

In 1976 Raimondo joined All Boys, the club finished bottom of their group in both the Nacional and the Metropolitano championships, prompting Raimondo's retirement from football at the end of the season.

Honours

Metropolitano 1970, Metropolitano 1971

1972, 1973, 1974

1973, 1974

1973

River Plate

Metropolitano 1975, Nacional 1975

Notes and References

  1. http://rsssf.com/miscellaneous/arg-poy.html rsssf: Argentine player of the year