Ernesto Cucchiaroni

Ernesto Cucchiaroni

Personal information
Full name	Ernesto Bernardo Cucchiaroni
Date of birth	(1927-11-16)16 November 1927
Place of birth	Posadas, Misiones, Argentina
Date of death
Height
Position(s)	Left Winger
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
????–1949	Rivadavia de Lincoln
1949–1954	Tigre
1955–1956	Boca Juniors	44	(16)
1956–1958	AC Milan	41	(7)
1958–1959	Real Jaén
1959–1963	Sampdoria	138	(40)
International career‡
1955–1956	Argentina	11
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 03:37, 27 July 2011 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 04:02, 27 July 2011 (UTC)

Ernesto Bernardo "Tito" Cucchiaroni (16 November 1927 – 4 July 1971) was an Argentine football player, born in Posadas, Argentina, who last played as a left winger for Sampdoria.

Club career

Cucchiaroni was born in the Argentine city of Posadas. He started his playing career with Rivadavia de Lincoln before leaving at the age of 22 to join Club Atlético Tigre.

After spending five years at Tigre, Cucchiaroni moved to Boca Juniors where he spent a further two years playing under Jaime Sarlanga, and Mario Fortunato in 1955 and 1956 respectively.

It wasn't long before Cucchiaroni caught the eyes of overseas interest and in 1956, he was picked up by Italian giants AC Milan. His first season for Milan was fairly productive, doing 27 league appearances and 4 goals whilst also playing a further 5 games (scoring once) in the European Champion Clubs' Cup. Cucchiaroni's second season however was not so productive only appearing 13 times and scoring twice.

In June, 1958 Cucchiaroni transferred from AC Milan to Real Jaén. Cucchiaroni remained at Real Jaén from 1958 to 1959 before finally settling down at Sampdoria where he spent the remainder of his career. He retired in June 1963 after accumulating 138 league appearances and 40 goals.

International career

In 1956, Cucchiaroni was selected to play for the Argentina South American Championship (Copa América) squad. Argentina went on to the final where they beat Chile 1–0. All up, Cucchiaroni made 11 appearances for the Argentina national squad without scoring.

Honours

AC Milan

• Serie A
  • Winner (1):1956–57

Argentina

• South American Championship (Copa América)
  • Winner (1):1955