Carlos Alberto Raffo

Carlos Alberto Raffo

Personal information
Full name	Carlos Alberto Raffo Vallaco
Date of birth	(1926-04-10)10 April 1926
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death	18 September 2013(2013-09-18) (aged 87)
Place of death	Guayaquil, Ecuador
Position(s)	Striker
Youth career
	Platense
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1940–1952	Platense
1952–1954	Argentina de Quito
1954–1963	Emelec		(132)
1964	Everest		(6)
1965	9 de Octubre		(7)
International career
1959–1963	Ecuador	13	(10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of March 2008

Carlos Alberto Raffo (April 10, 1926 – September 18, 2013) was an Argentine football striker who played international football for Ecuador. He had health conditions and died at a Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, aged 87.^[1]

Club career

Born in

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Raffo is considered to be one of the greatest goalscorers in the history of the Ecuadorian football, but the precise number of goals he scored will probably never be known, due to poor record keeping in the early 1950s.^{[according to whom?]}

International career

Raffo played international football for Ecuador between 1959 and 1963, he scored 10 goals in 13 games for his adoptive country.

. He is the only Ecuador player ever to achieve this feat to date.

Honours

Season	Team	Title
1956	Emelec	Copa Guayaquil
1957	Emelec	Campeonato Ecuatoriano
1957	Emelec	Copa Guayaquil
1961	Emelec	Campeonato Ecuatoriano
1962	Emelec	Copa Guayaquil

• Topscorer in
  1963
  : 6 goals
• Topscorer in
  Campeonato Ecuatoriano
  1963

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