Ramón Quiroga Arancibia (born 23 July 1950) is a former
football
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player and coach who played as a
goalkeeper
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. Born in Argentina, he obtained 40 caps playing for the
Peru national football team
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.
He is a youth coach for the Peruvian club
Cienciano
Club Cienciano, more commonly known as Cienciano, is a Peru, Peruvian professional association football, football club based in Cusco, that currently plays in the Peruvian Primera División. It gained worldwide recognition after defeating Club At ...
.
Club career
He began his career playing for the Argentine club
Rosario Central
Club Atlético Rosario Central (), more commonly referred to as Rosario Central, or simply Central, is a sports club based in Rosario, Argentina, that plays in the Argentine Primera División. The club was officially founded on 24 December 1889, ...
.
International career
Quiroga is perhaps best remembered for his appearance at the
1978 FIFA World Cup
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in a match against
Poland
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, when he ran all the way to the opposition half and fouled
Grzegorz Lato
Grzegorz Bolesław Lato (Polish pronunciation: ; born 8 April 1950) is a Polish former professional association football, football player and manager who played as a winger (association football), winger. He was a member of Poland's golden gene ...
, receiving a
yellow card
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in the process. In that tournament, he also conceded 6 goals in the match against
Argentina
Argentina, officially the Argentine Republic, is a country in the southern half of South America. It covers an area of , making it the List of South American countries by area, second-largest country in South America after Brazil, the fourt ...
, the country of his birth.
Ramón Quiroga: "En aquel 6 a 0 vimos cosas raras"
- La Nación
References
External links
at The Guardian football website
RPP Noticias
*
1950 births
Living people
Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe
Argentine people of Galician descent
Peruvian people of Galician descent
Argentine emigrants to Peru
Naturalized citizens of Peru
Men's association football goalkeepers
Argentine men's footballers
Peruvian men's footballers
Sportspeople of Argentine descent
Peru men's international footballers
1978 FIFA World Cup players
1982 FIFA World Cup players
Peruvian Primera División players
Argentine Primera División players
Rosario Central footballers
Sporting Cristal footballers
Club Atlético Independiente footballers
Barcelona S.C. footballers
Colegio Nacional Iquitos footballers
Club Universitario de Deportes footballers
Peruvian expatriate men's footballers
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
Expatriate men's footballers in Ecuador
Peruvian expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador
Argentine football managers
Peruvian football managers
Club Universitario de Deportes managers
Cienciano managers
Deportivo Municipal managers
León de Huánuco managers
20th-century Argentine sportsmen
20th-century Peruvian sportsmen
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