Roberto Eugenio Cerro, named "Cherro" (23 February 1907 – 11 October 1965) was an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 football

Football (soccer)

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 striker. He was born in Barracas

Barracas

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 in the city of Buenos Aires

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 in Argentina

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. He played the majority of his career with Boca Juniors

Boca Juniors

Club Atlético Boca Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Boca neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently plays in the Primera División....

, he scored 221 goals in 305 games for the club (in all official competitions), making him Boca Juniors' highest scoring player until his record was surpassed by Martín Palermo

Martín Palermo

Martín Palermo is a retired Argentine footballer who formerly played for Boca Juniors of Argentina, and the Argentina national team...

 in 2010.

Cherro won five league titles with Boca, he was the clubs top scorer

Boca Juniors topscorers

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 on five occasions, and the top scorer in the Primera Division Argentina

Primera División Argentina

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 on three occasions during the amateur era of Argentine football (1926, 1928 and 1930).

Club titles

Season	Club	Title
1926	Boca Juniors	Primera División Argentina Primera División Argentina The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...
1930	Boca Juniors	Primera División Argentina Primera División Argentina The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...
1931	Boca Juniors	Primera División Argentina Primera División Argentina The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...
1934	Boca Juniors	Primera División Argentina Primera División Argentina The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...
1935	Boca Juniors	Primera División Argentina Primera División Argentina The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...

Other title

• Copa Estimulo: 1926

International career

Cherro won the Copa América

Copa América

The Copa América —previously known as South American Championship—is an international football competition contested between the men's national teams of CONMEBOL, the sport's continental governing body...

 in 1929 with the Argentina national football team

Argentina national football team

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On 5 February 1933 Cherro famously scored all 4 goals in a 4-1 win over arch enemies Uruguay

Uruguay national football team

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External links

Boca Juniors profile Futbol Factory profile (Archived)