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 Rattín with Boca Juniors in 1969 | ||||||||||||||||||||
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| Date of birth | (1937-05-16)16 May 1937 (age 88) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Tigre, Buenos Aires, Argentina | |||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | |||||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | |||||||||||||||||||
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| Boca Juniors | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||||||||
| 1956–1970 | Boca Juniors | 352 | (26) | |||||||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1959–1969 | Argentina | 34 | (1) | |||||||||||||||||
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||||||||
Antonio Ubaldo Rattín (born 16 May 1937) is an Argentine formerfootballer, best known as aBoca Juniorsmidfielder, and because of an incident in a match at the1966 FIFA World Cup.
Rattín remains as one of the greatest idols ofBoca Juniors, the only club where he played for 15 years, winning 5 titles. He also played for theArgentina national team, winning theTaça das Nações (Nations Cup) in 1964.
Following the end of his professional sports career, Rattín became involved in politics, and, in2001, was elected to theNational Chamber of Deputies for theFederalist Unity Party list inBuenos Aires.
A Boca fan since childhood, Rattín joined their youth team, and debuted professionally on September 9, 1956, against Boca'smajor rivalRiver Plate. Replacing injuredEliseo Mouriño, he had a good game which Boca won 2–1. Slowly he became the team's steady "number 5", and won the hearts of the fans with his sober and solid playing abilities.[citation needed]
In his fourteen-year professional career, Rattín played only for Boca Juniors, winning theArgentine championship in 1962, 1964 and 1965, and theNacional in 1969. In the same year, he won the1969 Copa Argentina
With theArgentina national football team Antonio Rattín played thirty-two times, including the1962 FIFA World Cup, and as the captain in the1966 FIFA World Cup that took place inEngland.
It was in the quarter-final match against thehost team that Rattín was sent off by theGerman refereeRudolf Kreitlein for "violence of the tongue", despite the referee speaking noSpanish. Rattín was so incensed with the decision, believing the referee to be biased in favour of England, that he initially refused to leave. As a way to show his disgust, he sat on the red carpet which was exclusively forthe Queen to walk on. He eventually had to be escorted from the field by two policemen and as a final sign of disgust he wrinkled aBritishpennant before he was escorted out. This incident, and others surrounding the same game, arguably started the long-lastingrivalry between both national teams - but, on the other hand, allowed for the institution of yellow and red cards into the football practice, a solution devised by FIFA after the spark that set off the incident.
After a total of 357 matches and 28 goals withBoca Juniors, Rattín retired from professional football in 1970. He worked as coach of the youth teams of Boca Juniors, and coached the first division teams ofGimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata in 1977 and 1979, and Boca Juniors in 1980.
In 1978 Rattin was briefly employed bySheffield United as ascout as part of the club's attempts to tap into the emerging South American market. He was partly responsible for bringingAlejandro Sabella toBramall Lane but no other players followed and the partnership was quietly ended shortly afterwards.[1]
In 2001, Rattín was elected to theArgentine Chamber of Deputies for the conservativeFederalist Unity Party, led by alleged torturerLuis Patti. He was the first footballer to enter Congress and was chairman of the Sports Committee. He stepped down in 2005.
Antonio Ubaldo Rattín - El Caudillo, by Alfredo Di Salvo - Autores Editores (publisher) -ISBN 987-43-1624-1
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