Amadeo Carrizo

Amadeo Raúl Carrizo Larretape (12 June 1926 – 20 March 2020), popularly known by his first name "Amadeo", was an Argentine football goalkeeper and manager. Carrizo is considered a pioneer of the position, helping to innovate techniques and strategies for goalkeepers. The IFFHS ranked Carrizo as the best South American keeper of the 20th century in 1999.

He was the first goalkeeper in Argentina to wear gloves, following an example by Italy's Giovanni Viola. He was also the first one to regularly leave the penalty area to defend his goal and the first one to use goal kicks as a strategy to start counterattacks. His way of playing has inspired many famous South American keepers, most notably Hugo Orlando Gatti, René Higuita, and José Luis Chilavert. Germany's Manuel Neuer is a more recent exponent of this style. In a league match against Atlético Vélez on 14 July 1968, the 42-year-old Carrizo simultaneously established two records for his time: most official matches for River Plate in the Argentine First Division (521) and longest run without conceding a single goal at 769 minutes, surpassing Antonio Roma's national record (741). This treak came to end in this very match, courtesy of a header from an 18-year-old Carlos Bianchi.

In 1969, Carrizo reinforced two Peruvian teams in one match for each: Alianza Lima against Lev Yashin's Dynamo Moscow and Club Universitario de Deportes against SC Corinthians Paulista from Brazil. In April 1969, Carrizo joined the Colombian team Millonarios, where he ended his career in April 1970. His sometimes acrobatic saves earned him the moniker Tarzan from the local audience.

International career Carrizo played for the Argentina national football team with significant success, especially against Brazil, but he also suffered a 6–1 defeat against Czechoslovakia, in the 1958 FIFA World Cup. In 1964 he won with Argentina the Taça das Nações, a tournament held in Brazil, featuring also England and Portugal, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of the Brazilian Football Confederation.

Managerial career In 1973, Carrizo managed Deportivo Armenio, a club from the Province of Buenos Aires and led the team to promotion to the league Primera C. In 1973 he returned to Colombia, to manage first division team Once Caldas, from Manizales, then known as Cristal Caldas.

Honours River Plate Primera División: 1945, 1952, 1953, 1955, 1956, 1957 Copa Aldao: 1945 Copa Libertadores runner-up: 1966

Argentina Taça das Nações: 1964

Individual IFFHS South America Men's Team of All Time: 2021 IFFHS Argentina All Times Dream Team: 2021