As indicated by the Center for Football History Research (CIHF), Angel LabrunaRiver Plate’s absolute idol, scored two more goals than Arsenio Erico and is now considered as the top scorer in the history of Argentine soccer.
Even though both players retired more than 65 years ago, the discussion of who is the top scorer in the history of Argentine soccer seems to have no end. Now, a new CIHF study puts the eternal question back into the public debate.
According to the institute, Labruna beats Erico by two goalsformer Paraguayan player for Independiente from the 1930s and 1940s, the golden era of Argentine football, for many historians of the beautiful game. According to the same source, the exRiver who has a statue next to that of Marcelo Gallardo scored 295 goals in local tournaments, while the striker who played for Independiente scored 293 goals.
How it was concluded that Labruna scored more goals
According to the recent discovery, to count the goals scored by these two historic forwards The work “The History of Professionalism” by Pablo Ramírez was always taken as a reference.renowned historian of Argentine soccer.
However, the CIHF itself explained that “like any mega work, Pablo Ramírez’s production It contained some errors and also some omissionssince the author did not publish matches that broke ties or tournaments that he considered irrelevant such as the Reclassifications and Promotions”.
For this, It was decided to review the statistics of 293 goals for Erico and 290 for Labruna.
The process and conclusions of the study
First of all, it was identified that the Angel had converted two goals in the 2nd place playoff matches in 1949 against Platensewhich had not been taken into account by Ramírez. Thus, the duel became 293 Erico vs. 292 Labruna.
Then, the president of the CIHF, Carlos Yametti, noted another flaw in the previous investigation, which He confused the authorship of a goal converted by Angelito with Charro Moreno.
As most of the media at that time said, the goal had been scored by Labrunasomething that had not been confirmed in Ramírez’s study, so the table was tied at 293.
With this panorama and after the analysis of six more games, yesand carried out an even more in-depth investigation for 6 weeksand it was concluded that Erico scored 293 goals, and Labruna 295 goals.
Source: Ambito
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