COACH: Héctor RIVOIRA





GOALKEEPERS:

Ramón ÁLVAREZ
Mauricio CARANTA


DEFENDERS:

Eduardo ANELLI
Roberto BRUNETTO
Mario CORTEZ
Raúl DAMIANI
Roberto KRAUSEMANN
Enrique NIETO
Miguel OLMEDO


MIDFIELDERS:

Osvaldo ARDILES
Alberto BELTRÁN
Ernesto CORTI
Víctor HEREDIA
Salvador MASTROSIMONE
Fernando OLIVA
Claudio SARRÍA


FORWARDS:

Raúl De La Cruz CHAPARRO
Hugo CURIONI
Oscar DERTYCIA
Germán ESQUIVEL
Daniel JIMÉNEZ
Mario Alberto KEMPES
Diego KLIMOWICZ


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RESERVES:


GOALKEEPERS:

Ezequiel BALVERDI
Carlos MUNUTTI
Jorge PERRIOT
Hugo TRUCCHIA


DEFENDERS:

Ángel ARATA
Federico BESSONE
Francisco BUTELER
Fernando CLEMENTZ
Ramón GALARZA
José GUERRERO
Américo GUTIÉRREZ
Julio MOREYRA
Luis OROPEL
Félix PACHECO
Leonel PILIPAUSKAS
Julio ZAPATA

MIDFIELDERS:

Mario ACUÑA
Washington ARECO
Ramón Arsenio BENÍTEZ
Sergio BONFIGLI
Hernán BUJÁN
Alejandro FAURLÍN
Sergio GONZÁLEZ
Raúl MALDONADO
Juan José MEZA
Santiago RAYMONDA
Ricardo RENTERA
Silvio RISIO
Rodolfo RODRÍGUEZ


FORWARDS:

Mauro AMATO
Julio BENAVIDES
Hernán BOYERO
Fernando CASTRO
José Luis CEBALLOS
Ariel COZZONI
Paulo DYBALA
Mario GHIRARDO
Carlos LOVERA
Osvaldo MÁRQUEZ
Silvio ROMERO
José Luis SALDAÑO
Miguel SALDAÑO








INFO:

Curioni, Kempes and Ardiles in first team here? Those guys all played few games for the club at the beginning of their career, there is no way that there are no other players with better careers at the club. I understand Dybala in reserves but that should the maximum for the other guys as well..

Instituto began playing in the National Championships in 1973; before that, they played all their matches in the Cordoba League. Hugo Curioni played between 1968 and 1970 and was very important in winning the 1969 Torneo Selección of the Cordoba League. After succeeding at Boca and in France, he returned to the club in 1981 to play in the AFA tournaments. Ardiles and Kempes were the best players for Instituto in the early '70s, helping the team win the Cordoba League for the ninth (and last) time in 1972 and playing in the National Tournament for the first time in the club's history. The matches and goals of the pre-AFA players are not well recorded, so many of these players have officially low numbers compared to their actual achievements. For example, Curioni scored 47 goals in 68 matches accounted for by the Cordoba League; Diego Klimowicz, the fifth-highest scorer in AFA tournaments, scored 45 goals in 95 matches and no one would diminish his legend status for the club.

The history of clubs from the interior of the country is very different from that of clubs from the Buenos Aires metropolitan area, so different criteria must be used when forming these types of teams. It is very difficult to overlook players of the caliber of Kempes, Curioni, or Ardiles because "they played when they were young at the club," knowing that when they played, Argentine football was entirely different. The first National Tournament was played in 1967, thirty-seven years after the professionalization of Argentine football. Before that, teams from the interior (also called "indirectly affiliated teams") only played in their regional leagues, and a title back then was worth exactly the same as a First Division title for the clubs from Buenos Aires or Rosario. Instituto (just like their provincial peers Talleres and Belgrano) experienced this situation.