Alberto Tarantini

Alberto Tarantini

Personal information
Full name	Alberto César Tarantini
Date of birth	(1955-12-03) 3 December 1955 (age 61)
Place of birth	Ezeiza, Argentina
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Left back, Centre back
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1973–1977	Boca Juniors	179	(0)
1978–1979	Birmingham City	23	(1)
1979	Talleres de Córdoba	13	(1)
1980–1983	River Plate
1983–1984	SC Bastia	29	(1)
1984–1988	Toulouse	130	(8)
1988–1989	FC St. Gallen
National team
1974–1982	Argentina	61	(1)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Alberto César Tarantini (born 3 December 1955) is an Argentine former footballer who played as a defender. He won the 1978 FIFA World Cup with the Argentina national football team. He played as a defensive left back early in his career, and later as a wing back.

Born at Ezeiza, Tarantini rose through the Boca Juniors youth divisions in the early 1970s, and was noted for his afro hairdo and his large front teeth, which earned him the nickname conejo ("rabbit").

In 1977 with Boca Juniors he won his first international club football competition and one of the most prestigious tournaments in the world and the most prestigious club competition in Latin American football – Copa Libertadores, when after the goalless draw Boca defeated Cruzeiro 5–4 on penalties. The match was held at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, Uruguay on 14 September 1977.

Tarantini was part of the Argentina under-23 team that won the 1975 Toulon Tournament, together with Jorge Valdano, Américo Gallego, and others, with César Menotti as coach. He became the left-back of the Argentina national football team after Jorge Carrascosa left the team (the book El DT del Proceso by Gasparini and Ponsico claims that the wolf Carrascosa declined to play for the dictatorship). He was also, at 22, the youngest player of that team.

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