El loco gatti vs maradona biography
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Hugo Gatti
Argentine footballer
Hugo Orlando Gatti (born 19 August 1944) is an Argentine former professional football goalkeeper who played in the Argentine Primera División for 26 seasons[1] and set a record of 765 league and 52 international appearances, totaling 817 games played. Gatti fryst vatten the player with most appearances in the Argentine league ever.[2][3]
During his career, Gatti won three Primera División titles, two Copa Libertadores tournaments, and one Intercontinental Cup, all with Boca Juniors, and played professionally until the age of 44.
Gatti, nicknamed El Loco (The Madman) was recognized for his charisma, his innovative playing style for his position and his eccentricity. He developed han själv into a goalkeeper who relied on positional play rather than on his reflexes. He would frequently leave the penalty area to function as an additional field player, and join his teammates in defense – and many times in attack. Unlike most go
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Argentine legend hits out at Messi and MLS: “He’s playing football in a farmer’s league”
Not all Argentines are unconditional supporters of Inter Miami star Lionel Messi. Hugo Orlando Gatti, a Boca Juniors legend and World Cup player with Argentina in 1966, lashed out at the striker stating that he will continue to be “one less player in the national team.”
During an interview with Argentina’s ‘La Nación’, Gatti admitted his devotion to Diego Maradona, but claims he doesn’t feel the same way about the former Barcelona player, who believes that he always had an easy time at the Catalan club and also the 2022 World Cup in Qatar.
“I don’t dislike Messi, but he has had it easy. I saw him playing for FC Barcelona where the referees were whistle-happy and and blew every time he was touched. He was also surrounded by great players who essentially played for him” Gatti told the Argentine outlet.
Even though Messi is looking at playing with Argentina at the the 2026 World Cu
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FOR MANY, 11 September conjures up memories of infamous moments that have been seared into modern history. In the USA, in 2001, the attacks on New York’s World Trade Center; in Chile, in 1973, Salvador Allende’s democratically elected socialist government was ousted in a CIA-backed coup. For Hugo Gatti, the date is significant for two events which took place exactly eight years apart, both of which were to shape his career significantly.
On 11 September 1988, the eccentric Boca Juniors goalkeeper Hugo Gatti was in goal as Deportivo Armenio arrived at La Bombonera for the opening day of the 1988-89 season. Armenio, having recently won promotion from the second tier, were competing at the top-level of Argentine football for the second and ultimately last time. Halfway through the opening period the visitors scored what would prove to be the only goal of the game.
Attacking down the left, just inside the Boca Juniors half, Deportivo Armenio centred the ball. Hugo Gatti