Rubén Galletti

Galletti while playing for Estudiantes de la Plata
Personal information
Full name	Rubén Horacio Galletti
Date of birth	(1950-09-10) September 10, 1950
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Position(s)	Right-winger
Youth career
	Boca Juniors
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1971–1972	Boca Juniors	10	(4)
1973–1977	Estudiantes de La Plata	203 (total)	(88)
1978–1979	River Plate	56	(13)
1980–1982	Estudiantes de La Plata	(see above)
1983	Argentinos Juniors	37	(9)
1984	Huracán	3	(0)
1985	Talleres (RE)	3	(1)
International career
	Argentina
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:49, 18 May 2009 (UTC)

Rubén Horacio Galletti (born 10 September 1950 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine retired footballer who two Primera División championships and played for the Argentina national team.^[1]

Galletti began his playing career with Boca Juniors in a game against Platense on 18 April 1971. After playing only ten games for Boca, he joined Estudiantes de La Plata where he made a total of 203 appearances and scored 88 goals in his two spells with the club.

Between 1978 and 1979 he played for Boca's fiercest rivals River Plate where he won both the Metropolitano and the Nacional championship in 1979.

Galletti returned to Estudiantes in 1980 where he was part of the Metropolitano championship winning team in 1982.

Galletti played out his career with Argentinos Juniors, Huracán and Talleres de Remedios de Escalada.

Galletti's son Luciano also played for Estudiantes before continuing his career in Italy.

Father and son made headlines in the Argentina press in October 2012, when they became donor and recipient in a kidney transplantation after Luciano had to retire from activity while playing for Olympiacos in 2010, following an acute kidney failure.^[2]

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External links

• BDFA profile (in Spanish)