Antonio Valentín Angelillo [SEP] position played on team / speciality
Antonio Valentín Angelillo
Antonio Valentín Angelillo (; 5 September 1937 – 5 January 2018) was an Italian Argentine football forward who played the majority of his professional career in the Italian Serie A, and was a member of both the Argentine and the Italian national teams.
Club career.
Born in Buenos Aires, Angelillo started playing professionally in Arsenal de Llavallol in 1952. In 1955 he played with Racing Club de Avellaneda and moved to Boca Juniors in 1956.
Angelillo was part of the Argentine national team that won the
"Oriundi" as a term in Italian football dates from the early 1950s. The category existed separately from native and foreign players at intervals until the 1970s. Omar Sivori, Humberto Maschio and Antonio Valentín Angelillo, the three stars of the Argentina national team that won the 1957 Copa América were signed by Italian clubs and given citizenship, thereby missing Argentina's disappointing showing at the 1958 World Cup.
In 1966, no new foreigners were admitted to the Italian league. Their presence was blamed for the continued underperfomance of the national