Darío Dubois

Darío Enrique Dubois (10 March 1971 - 17 March 2008), better known as Darío Dubois, was an Argentine footballer famous for playing in numerous games with corpse-paint makeup. Due to this unusual characteristic, he became a famous and revered figure among those who like curious facts about football.

Professional career

In total, Dubois played 146 games and scored 13 goals for clubs in the Primera C and Primera D categories, fourth and fifth level of Argentine football respectively. In 1999, as a player for Ferrocarril Midland, before a match against Argentino de Merlo, Dubois took the field wearing corpse paint, a style of makeup used by black metal musicians, a subgenre of heavy metal music he admired. He would do it again in 13 matches until the Argentine Football Association issued a regulation prohibiting the practice. Dubois retired in 2005 after suffering a ligament injury in his knee and not earning enough money to perform the knee surgery.

Death

Dubois was shot twice on 2 March 2008, as he left a club where he worked as an audio operator in La Matanza Partido. After two weeks in hospital, Dubois died on March 17. The causes have unfortunately never been clarified.