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Hugo Gatti

1944 - 2025

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Hugo Orlando Gatti (19 August 1944 – 20 April 2025) was an Argentine football goalkeeper who played in the Argentine Primera División for 26 seasons and set a record of 765 league and 52 international appearances, totaling 817 games played. Gatti is the player with most appearances in the Argentine league ever. During his career, Gatti won three Primera División titles, two Copa Libertadores tournaments, and one Intercontinental Cup, all with Boca Juniors, and played professionally until the age of 44. Gatti, nicknamed El Loco (The Madman) was recognized for his charisma, his innovative playing style for his position and his eccentricity. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Hugo Gatti is the 294th most popular soccer player (up from 804th in 2019), the 56th most popular biography from Argentina (up from 150th in 2019) and the 16th most popular Argentinean Soccer Player.

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS

Among soccer players, Hugo Gatti ranks 294 out of 21,273. Before him are Karl-Heinz Schnellinger, Eizo Yuguchi, Masanori Tokita, Shumpei Inoue, Kikuzo Kisaka, and Shiro Teshima. After him are Raimundo Orsi, Angelo Schiavio, Gianpiero Combi, Tatsuya Shiji, Park Ji-sung, and Fernando Hierro.

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Among people born in 1944, Hugo Gatti ranks 106. Before him are Killing of Peter Fechter, Karin Schubert, Salvador Sánchez Cerén, Jeroen Krabbé, Ian McDiarmid, and Donna Haraway. After him are Andris Bērziņš, Kim Yong-il, John Atta Mills, Roger Scruton, Masanobu Izumi, and Karl Jenkins. Among people deceased in 2025, Hugo Gatti ranks 46. Before him are Oleg Gordievsky, Alfred Brendel, Luis Galván, Oliviero Toscani, Jules Wijdenbosch, and Joseph Nye. After him are David Lodge, Jair da Costa, Svetlana Gerasimenko, Sam Nujoma, Alasdair MacIntyre, and Lalo Schifrin.

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In Argentina

Among people born in Argentina, Hugo Gatti ranks 56 out of 1,154. Before him are Violet Jessop (1887), Roberto Eduardo Viola (1924), Luis Galván (1948), Alberto Granado (1922), Mauricio Macri (1959), and Bernardo Houssay (1887). After him are Raimundo Orsi (1901), Guillermo Vilas (1952), Ernesto Laclau (1935), Chris de Burgh (1948), Ángel Di María (1988), and Manuel Belgrano (1770).

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Among SOCCER PLAYERS In Argentina

Among soccer players born in Argentina, Hugo Gatti ranks 16. Before him are Daniel Passarella (1953), Hernán Crespo (1975), Luis Monti (1901), Javier Zanetti (1973), Francisco Varallo (1910), and Luis Galván (1948). After him are Raimundo Orsi (1901), Ángel Di María (1988), Osvaldo Ardiles (1952), Ramón Díaz (1959), Carlos Bilardo (1938), and Jorge Solari (1941).

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