Mario Oscar Desiderio (born 1 February 1938) is a former Argentine

footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...

who played in Argentina, Chile, Colombia and Italy as a striker. He was part of Argentina's squad at the

1960 Summer Olympics The 1960 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XVII Olympiad () and commonly known as Rome 1960 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 25 August to 11 September 1960 in Rome, Italy. Rome had previously been awar ...

Teams

Estudiantes de La Plata ( lit. "La Plata Students"), simply referred to as Estudiantes de La Plata, is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Plata. The club's football team currently competes in the Primera División, where it has spent most of its histo ...

1954–1959 *

Catania Catania (, , , Sicilian and ) is the second-largest municipality on Sicily, after Palermo, both by area and by population. Despite being the second city of the island, Catania is the center of the most densely populated Sicilian conurbation, wh ...

1960–1962 *

Roma Roma or ROMA may refer to: People, characters, figures, names * Roma or Romani people, an ethnic group living mostly in Europe and the Americas. * Roma called Roy, ancient Egyptian High Priest of Amun * Roma (footballer, born 1979), born ''Paul ...

1962–1963 * O'Higgins 1964–1966 *

Deportivo Cali Asociación Deportivo Cali, best known as Deportivo Cali, is a Colombian sports club based in Cali, most notable for its football team, which currently competes in the Categoría Primera A. Deportivo Cali is one of the most successful football t ...

1967–1970 * 1971 *

Unión Magdalena Unión Magdalena () commonly known as El Unión, and nicknamed as El Ciclón Bananero (The Banana Cyclone) and also Los Samarios (The Samarios), is a Colombian football club from the city of Santa Marta, capital of the department of Magdalena De ...

1973

Honours

;O'Higgins *

Primera B de Chile Campeonato Primera B () is the second tier in the Chilean football league system, and is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. It was established in 1952 as ''Segunda División'', and later renamed in 1996 to the current n ...

: 1964

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* * 1938 births Living people Argentine men's footballers Argentine expatriate men's footballers Olympic footballers for Argentina Footballers at the 1960 Summer Olympics Argentine Primera División players Estudiantes de La Plata footballers Serie A players Catania FC players AS Roma players Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players O'Higgins F.C. footballers Categoría Primera A players Deportivo Cali footballers Unión Magdalena footballers Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Italy Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Colombia Expatriate men's footballers in Chile Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia Men's association football forwards Footballers from Buenos Aires 20th-century Argentine sportsmen {{Argentina-footy-forward-stub