Amadeo Carrizo

Amadeo Carrizo has been one of the best goalkeepers in history, ahead of his time, heralds a new way of acting under the sticks. He was the first who got used to bow out and play the ball with their feet, as if it were a footballer more. Specialist in the hand to hand, no one used before the goal kick to start the attacks and was one of the pioneers in the use of gloves.

Occasionally allowed to dribble past an opponent, as in 1954 in a classic against Boca. Reed left the area to retrieve a ball before transferring it to a teammate faced Borrello, one of the stars of the xeneizes, and dribbles to the delight of fans of River and stupor of opposing fans. For all that and more, Amadeo is considered the best South American goalkeeper of the twentieth century. A goalkeeper who reinvented seat and came forward to the future. "A Master without time," as defined Figure.

It began with ten years in El Fortin, a small team of his native Rufino, then move to the Buenos Aires Pacific. In these two sets alternated his performances as goalkeeper and striker, until he

was convinced that his future was in goal. His life changed when Hector Berra, a former athlete who participated in the Olympic Games in Los Angeles 32, sent a letter to Carlos Peucelle, then coach of the lower River, recommending to Carrizo. That was how the club came that marked his career and which remained as first team goalkeeper for over 500 games.

In that time he shared a dressing room with some of the best Argentine players in history, as Pipo Rossi and Di Stéfano and Muñoz, Moreno, Pederson, Labruna and Loustau, the famous machine.

Independent supporter as a child, his arrival in River changed him and from that moment his heart was only room for the colors of this team. The River debut came with 19 years, precisely against Independiente. River won 2-1 that day and Cervino Camilo went down in history as the author of the first goal conceded that professional Carrizo.

His record is as extensive as bright. The player most games dress the franjirroja shirt and the only goalkeeper who has been champion six times, including three-peat of the years 1955, 1956 and 1957's. He left the company in 1968 with 42, and drained his last two professional seasons in Millonarios of Colombia. On his return to Argentina had a fleeting step as coach of Deportivo Armenian and subsequently linked to continued public relations football as a trademark and River Plate.

His international career was not as bright as that for various reasons rarely acted with Argentina and only participated in the '58 World Cup in Sweden and in the 1964 Copa America.