 Boyé while playing for Boca Juniors in the 1940s | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mario Emilio Heriberto Boyé Auterio | ||
| Date of birth | (1922-07-30)July 30, 1922 | ||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Date of death | July 21, 1992(1992-07-21) (aged 69) | ||
| Position | |||
| Youth career | |||
| 1936–1941 | Boca Juniors | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1941–1949 | Boca Juniors | 190 | (108) |
| 1949 | Genoa | 18 | (12) |
| 1950 | Millonarios | ||
| 1950–1953 | Racing Club | 84 | (33) |
| 1954 | Huracán | 20 | (7) |
| 1955 | Boca Juniors | 18 | (5) |
| International career | |||
| 1945–1951 | Argentina | 17 | (7) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of August 2007 | |||
Mario Emilio Heriberto Boyé Auterio (30 July 1922 – 21 July 1992) was an Argentinefootballer. A powerful winger or striker, he played forBoca Juniors,Racing Club de Avellaneda andHuracán in Argentina,Genoa in Italy andMillonarios in Colombia.
NicknamedEl Atómico (The Atomic One), he started playing in the youth division of Boca Juniors to debut in first division on 8 June 1941 in the victory againstIndependiente, and scoring his first goal a week later againstHuracán. With Boca he won the 1943 and 1944Argentine leagues, and was the league's top-scorer in 1946 with 24 goals. He moved to Italy where he became"Il Matadore" (The Killer), but returned to Argentina four seasons later. After winning the 1951 league with Racing and playing one season for Huracán, he returned to Boca to retire a year later. He played 228 matches for Boca in all competitions, scoring 124 goals.[1]
He was the top scorer in the Copa del Atlántico 1947 with 5 goals, a non-CONMEBOL tournament which is considered one of the precursors of theCopa Libertadores.[2]
Boyé played for theArgentina national team between 1945 and 1951. He was on the Argentine teams that won theCopa América three times, in1945,[3]1946[4] and1947.[5]
Boyé had a brief spell in charge of Boca Juniors in 1961. In 1963 former Boca Juniors player Mario Boyé and formerSan Lorenzo de Almagro playerRené Pontoni, brothers-in-law who had both been members of Argentine national teams, set up apizzeria inBelgrano, Buenos Aires,La Guitarrita, which expanded into a chain, still run by Pontoni's grandson as of 2024[update].[6]
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