José Vicente Grecco

José Vicente Grecco
Personal information
Full name José Vicente Grecco Robles
Date of birth (1929-06-20)20 June 1929
Place of birth Bahía Blanca, Argentina
Date of death 24 August 2008(2008-08-24) (aged 79)
Position Forward
Youth career
Boca Juniors
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1948 Boca Juniors 1 (0)
1949–1953 Unión de Santa Fe 107 (55)
– Newell's Old Boys
– River Plate-UY
1956–1958 Medellín
1958 Santa Fe 34 (26)
1958–1959 Málaga
1959–1960 Real Murcia
1961–1962 Medellín
Managerial career
1964–1965 Independiente Medellín
1975 Deportes Quindío
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

José Vicente Grecco (20 June 1929 in Bahía Blanca – 24 August 2008 in Medellín) was an Argentine football player and manager.[1]

Club career

Grecco began his playing career in 1948 with Boca Juniors, he only played one game for the club a 3–1 defeat to Estudiantes de La Plata on 14 November 1948.[2] He then went on to play for Unión de Santa Fe and Newell's Old Boys in the Primera División Argentina. Grecco scored 55 goals in 107 matches for Unión.[3]

He also enjoyed success in Colombia with Independiente Medellín and Santa Fe.[4] Grecco is Independiente Medellín's all-time leading goal scorer with 92 goals in 166 games, and he was the top goal scorer in the 1957 Fútbol Profesional Colombiano with 30 goals.[5]

Personal

Grecco died 24 August 2008 in Medellín.[5]

References

  1. ↑ Ortiz Jiménez, Juan Diego (26 August 2008). "Murió José Vicente Grecco, goleador histórico del Medellín". Futbol Red. Retrieved 6 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  2. ↑ Statistics at Historia de Boca (in Spanish)
  3. ↑ "El buen fútbol está de luto por Greco". Uno de Santa Fe. 1 September 2008. Retrieved 6 March 2009.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link)
  4. ↑ "Ficha de JOSE GRECCO". BDFA. Retrieved 6 March 2009.
  5. 1 2 "Murió Grecco, uno de los mejores "10" de Unión en 101 años de vida". Diario El Litoral. 26 August 2008. Retrieved 6 March 2009.


This page is issued from Wikipedia. The text is available under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 unless otherwise noted. Additional terms may apply for the media files.