Description
Antonio Ubaldo Ratt�n is a former Argentine football player, best known as a Boca Juniors midfielder, and because of an incident in a match at the 1966 FIFA World Cup. He later became a politician.
A Boca fan since childhood, Ratt�n joined their youth team, and debuted professionally on September 9, 1956 against Boca's major rival River Plate. Replacing injured Eliseo Mouri�o, 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.
In his fourteen-year professional career, Ratt�n played only for Boca Juniors, winning the Argentine championship in 1962, 1964 and 1965, and the Nacional in 1969.
With the Argentina national football team Antonio Ratt�n played thirty-two times, including the 1962 FIFA World Cup, and as the captain in the 1966 FIFA World Cup that took place in England.
It was in the quarter-final match against the host team that Ratt�n was sent off by the German referee Rudolf Kreitlein for "violence of the tongue", despite the referee speaking no Spanish.
Born
May 16th, 1937 in Buenos Aires Province (Age 87)
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