Herminio Masantonio

Herminio Masantonio (5 August 1910 – 11 September 1956) was an Argentine football centre-forward. He played most of his career for Huracán and represented Argentina at international level.

Masantonio is one of Huracán's legends, Despite these marks, Masantonio was never the top scorer of an individual season and did not win any official title with Huracán. that was affiliated to La Plata football league, where he debuted in the fourth division in 1926. Three years later, Masantonio moved to Club Platense of the same league, where he began achieving greater scores.

Apart from football, Masantonio was a boxing enthusiast and wished to make a career in the sport. However, Lieutenant Tomás Ducó, member of C.A. Huracán (he would be later president of club) had been informed about Masantonio's potential for football so he convinced him to play for the club. Masantonio signed his first contract for Huracán, starting his career at the very dawn of the professional era of Argentine football in 1931. He scored two goals to Quilmes in his debut for Huracán, which helped to defeat the Cervecero 5–1.

That evening (his debut with Huracán) I scored the most formidable goal of my life. I took the ball in the center of the field, dribbled the left half, then the centrehalf, and even the two backs, shooting so strong that not only the goalkeeper could not see the trajectory of the ball but many people only heard a huge strike on one of the goal posts, and nothing else. He scored a total of 259 goals in 369 games for all of his club teams.

Masantonio represented Argentina at the 1935 and 1942 South American Championships. He was topscorer in both competitions

Masantonio scored a total of 21 goals for Argentina in only 19 games, putting him in 11th place in the table of Argentina's top goalscorers.

At only 46 years old, the song was recorded on 9 May 1933 by the Orquesta Típica Victor, featuring Alberto Gómez on vocals. The song "El Pampero de Patricios" was also dedicated to Masantonio. 1942