Hugo Gatti information

Hugo Gatti
	Gatti while playing for Boca Juniors in 1977
Personal information
Full name	Hugo Orlando Gatti
Date of birth	19 August 1944 (age 79)
Place of birth	Carlos Tejedor, Argentina
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
1960–1961	Atlanta
Senior career*
Years	Team
1962–1964	Atlanta
1964–1968	River Plate
1969–1974	Gimnasia La Plata
1974–1975	Unión Santa Fe
1976–1988	Boca Juniors
Total
International career
1966–1977	Argentina
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

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 is 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 himself 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 goalkeepers of his era, he made extensive use of his feet, head, and chest to control or strike the ball. He was one of the pioneers of the achique, the goalkeeping technique of running out to challenge an oncoming opposing player.^[4] He was also notable at facing penalty kicks, saving 26 of them throughout his career, tied for the most ever in Primera División with contemporary goalkeeper Ubaldo Fillol.

Gatti was voted Player of the Year of Argentina in 1982, and was ranked as the third best Argentine goalkeeper of the 20th Century in a poll by the IFFHS.^[5]^[6]

^ (in Spanish)Hugo Orlando Gatti bio Archived 8 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine – Redargentina.com – educar.org
^ El abuelo y tapicero que se convertirá en el jugador con más partidos en el fútbol argentino Archived 10 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine, La Nación, 5 November 2014
^ A 30 AÑOS DEL RÉCORD INALCANZABLE DE HUGO GATTI Archived 10 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Deportea
^ "Revolution between the Latin American Goalposts"^{[dead link]} – fifa.com – FIFA, 10 January 2000.
^ IFFHS' Century Elections – rsssf.org – by Karel Stokkermans, RSSSF.
^ The World's best Goalkeeper of the Century – www.iffhs.de – IFFHS. Retrieved November 2006.

[educar-1] (in Spanish)Hugo Orlando Gatti bio Archived 8 September 2006 at the Wayback Machine – Redargentina.com – educar.org

[APPP-2] El abuelo y tapicero que se convertirá en el jugador con más partidos en el fútbol argentino Archived 10 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine, La Nación, 5 November 2014

[APP-3] A 30 AÑOS DEL RÉCORD INALCANZABLE DE HUGO GATTI Archived 10 October 2017 at the Wayback Machine, Deportea

[FIFArev-4] "Revolution between the Latin American Goalposts"^{[dead link]} – fifa.com – FIFA, 10 January 2000.

[5] IFFHS' Century Elections – rsssf.org – by Karel Stokkermans, RSSSF.

[6] The World's best Goalkeeper of the Century – www.iffhs.de – IFFHS. Retrieved November 2006.

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