AMADEO RAUL CARRIZO
Date of Birth: -
Place of Birth: Rufino,
Province of Santa Fe, Argentina
Titles won with River Plate:
* Championship 1945
* Championship 1947
* Championship 1952
* Championship 1953
* Championship 1955
* Championship 1956
* Championship 1957
A real player of the club, Amadeo started
his career at the
lower divisions of River Plate, where he made
his debut in
1945, with 17 years old, against Independiente,
in a match
won by the millonaire 2 to 1 (the first goal
Carrizo received
playing in River's first division was scored
by Cervino).
Amadeo was at that moment the indisputable
goalkeeper of the
third division of River. In 1949 he started
to share the
goalkeeper's place with the "suicidal goalkeeper"
Héctor
Grisetti, who had been up to that moment the
owner of that
place. Finally, on that same year he won the
struggle and
became the regular goalkeeper of the millionaire,
a place
he kept for two decades.
He has the record of goalkeeper's presences
in River Plate's
first division team. Altogether he played
521 official games
and there's no other goalkeeper who could
reach that mark up
to date. In the year 1968, at the metropolitan
tournament, he
had beaten the invincibility record of that
time. Later on his
new record would be beaten by Antonio Roma.
In 1968 Amadeo was
transferred to the Colombian team Millonarios,
where he finished
his career a couple of years later.
Besides his remarkable career at the "Band",
Amadeo Raúl
Carrizo was also a man of the Argentinian
national team.
He was the Argentinian goalkeeper at many
Southamerican
championships, at the World Cup of Sweden
in 1958, and he
won the Nations Cup in 1964, in Brazil. The
great Amadeo
is said to be the pioneer of the "goalkeeper
players"
because he was able to play and to be the
goalkeeper at
the same time.
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