Julián Álvarez and a select club: only 18 out of 25,000 football players have scored 6 or more goals in Argentine football history

Some data measures Julián Alvarez’s reach on Wednesday against Alianza Lima. Since 1891, the year in which the first league was played in the country, and since 1893, the year in which the current Argentine Football Association was founded, the first category clubs have played only over 40,000 matches between the First leagues. Division, national and international cups. cups. And about 25 thousand footballers participated. Only 18 scored 6 or more goals in a game. Yung dati, almost 50 years ago.

There are well -known names, such as Arsenio Erico, Francisco Varallo, Roberto Cherro, Jaime Sarlanga or Juan Alberto Taverna. Others once remembered on some note, such as Maximiliano Susan, Rafael Moreno or Alberto Marcovecchio. And others have recovered from the chest of memories, mostly surnames associated with the British community, the one that introduced football to the country.

Before remembering the dates, names and games, let’s clarify two scenarios. The first, a truism: football has always been played 11 against 11, with legally defined pitches, a ball, a referee and two lines. Nor easily score then or now. Second, River’s win with Julián Alvarez’s super scoring production in the first round of the Copa Argentina. Let’s imagine a big result, with more than 10 goals and the gagamba also scoring more than 10. Will anyone discuss the record in an official match? Certainly not. That’s about the brands of the past.

So far, nothing has matched the success of Maximiliano Susan, from Corrientes, scorer for Estudiantes, at that time without clarification of Buenos Aires or Caseros, a group composed mostly of university students. Susan, in 1915 and at the age of 27, became a veterinarian. He left football to devote himself entirely to his profession. In a 1909 Competition Cup match, similar to any cup played today, the Estudiantes defeated Lomas Athletic Club 18-0, which still existed but abandoned football in the 1910s.

No one matched him and not many came close. Not then or now. In second place on the podium will appear Henry CunninghamScottish surname if any, who played for the Reformer, a railway-linked Campana team, which beat Barracas Athletic (which has no link to Barracas Central or Sportivo Barracas) 12-0 for the 1905 First Division tournament, which was won by Alumni and in which only seven clubs participated.

Then there are four players who score 7 goals in a game. Juanchi Taverna has an altar to professionalism. On October 6, 1974, Banfield defeated Puerto Comercial de Ingeniero White 13-1 for the National tournament and the forward of Drill he was sent with 7 goals. It is worth clarifying that, as happened in the first national tournaments, the Southern League team is mostly novice.

It is also known Roberto Cherro because his name emerged as a goal to be surpassed by Martín Palermo, something that the Titan. Cherro, in the 1930 tournament, won by Boca, scored 7 goals in the victory over Honor y Patria of 9 to 1, on March 29, 1931, on the penultimate date of the First Division tournament.

The other two names, in the first decade of the 20th century, also sounded British: Carlos Lettof the powerful Alumni, in the 14-0 defeat of the Reformer on June 20, 1905. And Edwin Ruthven Hoodby Reformer, who beat Barracas Athletic 11-0. One detail of that match was that the loser played with only 8 men, something stated in the regulations.

In the next step, with six goals, 12 players will appear, with the recent addition of Alvarez. The first to achieve that mark is certain Share Barrington de Flores Athletic (a club with a play field very close to the current Ferro field), which defeated Palermo Athletic 11-0 on May 16, 1897. It was in the last decade of the 19th century, the founding, good british. The other one, thomas allenfrom Lanús Athletic (unrelated to the current Lanús), who beat Palermo Athletic 8-0 in 1899. charles wahley Y AB Cullermefrom Belgrano Athletic, and Ernest Brownfrom Alumni, completed the British stage.

The race was the first great champion of the Creole matrix and albert marcovecchio one of his great scorers. In 1913, for the first time in the Competition Cup, they had to face the Unión de Santa Fe. Academy, a nickname he received that year in which he won his first First Division title, won 8-0 with 6 goals from Marcovecchio. then, Salvador Carrerasthe top scorer in the 1920 tournament with Vélez, also scored six but for Sportivo Balcarce, who beat Porteño 6-2.

The specific weight of the other four names, all of them in the professional season, is six times the work forward from River. Francisco Varallo (6 to 7-1 from Boca to Chacarita in 1933), the fourth scorer in xeneize history; Arsenio Eric (6 to 7-1 from Independiente to Quilmes in 1937), the top scorer in Independiente history) and second in Argentine football behind Angel Labruna adding all capabilities); Jaime Sarlanga (6 of Boca’s 7-2 against Atlanta in 1941), fifth top scorer in Boca history; Y Raphael Moreno (6 to 8-0 from Argentinos to Lanús in 1972), fourth historical scorer for Argentinos Juniors.

To complete the record, Álvarez became the first River player to score six goals in a game, and just on the day of the club’s new anniversary. And he was the third player to achieve that mark in the Copa Libertadores. Equal to Juan Carlos Sanchezanother Argentine, who did so in 1985 in Blooming’s beat from Bolivia against Deportivo Italia from Venezuela by 8 to 0.

And a new record, thanks to the journalist who manages the account @ElDatoFutbolero, who showed a video from 1999 which clearly shows that Fernando Bayano The Corinthians, scored six goals in the 8-2 win over Cerro Porteño, and one of them was awarded to Indio, both by the referee and most of the media. Beyond the official form, what matters in these cases is who made it. This is the historical fact. And at 3, Gagamba is the youngest.