Rubí Cerioni
Personal information
Full name Rubí Orlando Cerioni
Date of birth (1927-05-01)1 May 1927
Place of birth La Plata, Argentina
Date of death 17 March 2012(2012-03-17) (aged 84)
Place of death La Plata, Argentina
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1948–1949 River Plate 2 (0)
1949–1950 Quilmes
1951–1952 Sporting de Barranquilla[1] 17 (14)
1952–1954 Deportivo Cali[2] 47 (29)
1954–1956 Quilmes
1957–1959 Atlas
1960 Toronto Roma
1961 O'Higgins
1962–1964 Toronto Roma
Managerial career
1964 Toronto Roma
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Rubí Orlando Cerioni (1 May 1927 – 17 March 2012) was an Argentine footballer who played professionally in the Argentine Primera División, Fútbol Profesional Colombiano, Mexican Primera División, Chilean Primera División and Canadian National Soccer League.

Career

Born in La Plata, Cerioni played as a forward. He began his career with the youth side of Gimnasia de La Plata. He made two Primera División appearances for River Plate, before joining Argentine Primera B Nacional side Quilmes in 1949.[3] Cerioni quickly became a part of the squad and helped Quilmes win the 1949 title. Over his two stints with the club, he scored 59 goals in 102 Primera and Primera B appearances for Quilmes.[4]

In 1951, Cerioni moved to Colombia to play for Sporting de Barranquilla and Deportivo Cali. He returned to Quilmes, and spells with Atlas, Toronto Roma[5] and O'Higgins followed before he retired in 1962.[6]

Managerial career

Cerioni served as a play-coach in 1964 for Toronto Roma in the Eastern Canada Professional Soccer League.[7]

Personal

Cerioni died in March 2012.[3]

References

  1. ↑ Sporting statistics @ Golgolgol.net
  2. ↑ Cali statistics Archived 2011-11-13 at the Wayback Machine ! Golgolgol.net
  3. 1 2 "Las cenizas de Rubí Cerioni fueron esparcidas en el Estadio Centenario" [Rubí Cerioni's ashes were scattered in the Centenario Stadium] (in Spanish). Perspectiva Sur. 18 March 2012.
  4. ↑ "Una Estrella más en el Cielo" [A star in the sky] (in Spanish). Diario Mas. 23 March 2012. Archived from the original on 19 February 2013.
  5. ↑ "Battle to draw". Winnipeg Free Press. 21 May 1962. p. 18.
  6. ↑ Minig, Patricio Raúl (23 March 2012). "Se fue un pedazo de nuestra historia: Rubí Orlando Cerioni" [He was a piece of our history: Rubí Orlando Cerioni] (in Spanish). Alma los Blancos.
  7. ↑ Orr, Frank (May 21, 1964). "City plays 2 roles in loss to Roma". Toronto Daily Star. p. 17.


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