About Ángel Labruna
Ángel Amadeo Labruna was an Argentine footballer and coach who played as a forward. With 323 goals scored in official matches, which include 294 league goals, Labruna is the 2nd all-time top scorer of Primera División after Paraguayan Arsenio Erico. Labruna was also part of the celebrated River Plate offense, nicknamed La Máquina, and he was considered one of the best South-American footballers of his generation. In his career, Labruna scored 564 goals. After a small talk with Labruna during a basketball game, then-vice-president Antonio Liberti founded River Plate's sixth division and all of Club Barrio Parque players would switch to play for the club. River Plate's first-team would give Labruna to debut unofficially in an exhibition game against Jorge Newbery (Rufino) on 25 May 1937, where he played in his inside-left position, winning the game 8–3. In the special fourth division, his team managed won two championships between 1936 and 1938.
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