Victorio Cocco
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Victorio Nicolás Cocco | ||
| Date of birth | March 23, 1946 | ||
| Place of birth | Santa Fe, Argentina | ||
| Playing position | Central midfielder | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1964–1967 | Unión de Santa Fe | 136 | (11) |
| 1968–1974 | San Lorenzo | 194 | (49) |
| 1975 | Deportivo La Coruña | 21 | (7) |
| 1976 | River Plate | 14 | (1) |
| 1977 | Atlanta | 23 | (4) |
| 1978 | Boca Juniors | 12 | (2) |
| 1979 | Cúcuta | ? | (?) |
| National team | |||
| 1968–1974 | Argentina | 6 | (1) |
| Teams managed | |||
| 1977 | Atlanta | ||
| 1981 | San Lorenzo | ||
| 1982 | Atlanta | ||
| 1983 | Racing de Córdoba | ||
| 1984–1985 | Belgrano de Córdoba | ||
| 1985–1986 | Atlanta | ||
| 1987 | Colón de Santa Fe | ||
| 1989 | Tigre | ||
| 1992–1993 | Belgrano de Córdoba | ||
| 1994 | Gimnasia y Tiro | ||
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 22 October 2007. |
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Victorio Nicolás Cocco (born 23 March 1946 in Santa Fe, Argentina) is a former Argentine footballer. He played for a number of clubs in Argentina, Spain and Colombia and represented the Argentina national football team.
Three marriages. Four children. Two from first marriage: Victorio Jr and Verónica, one from his second marriage: Victoria and another from his third marriage: Aaron.
Cocco made his professional debut playing for Unión de Santa Fe in the Argentine 2nd division in 1964. He was part of the team that won the championship and promotion to the Primera in 1966. Cocco played one season with Unión in the Primera in 1967.
Cocco was signed by San Lorenzo in 1968 and later that year he won his first Primera Division title with the club. San Lorenzo won the Metropolitano without losing a single game, making them the first unbeaten champions in the professional era of Argentine football.
In 1972 Cocco was part of the San Lorenzo team that won both of the Argentine league titles, this time they completed the Nacional championship without losing a game.
Cocco won his fourth title with San Lorenzo in 1974, the club won the Nacional championship. Cocco is one of only five players to have won four league championships with San Lorenzo, the others being Sergio Villar, Carlos Veglio, Roberto Telch and Agustín Irusta.
By the time Cocco left San Lorenzo in 1974 he had played 202 games for the club, scoring 49 goals.
In 1975 Cocco played for Deportivo La Coruña in Spain, but he returned to Argentina in 1976 to play for River Plate. In 1977 he joined Club Atlético Atlanta where he got his first taste of management as a player manager in the last few games of the Metropolitano 1977.
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