Claudio Vacca 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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 goalkeeper

Goalkeeper

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 who played most of his career at Boca Juniors

Boca Juniors

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Career

Having started his career in Huracán

Club Atlético Huracán

Club Atlético Huracán is a sports club from the Parque Patricios neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the second level of the Argentine football league system. Huracán home stadium is the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó.Huracán was...

, Vacca went to Boca Juniors after the departure of Juan Yustrich

Juan Yustrich

Juan Elías Yustrich was an Argentine football goalkeeper who won two league championships with Boca Juniors.Yustrich was born in Rosario, Argentina to Yugoslav parents, originally Justric. He started playing with Provincial de Rosario and was signed by Boca Juniors in 1932 as a replacement for...

 who had been sold to Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata due to a legal conflict with the club managers. Vacca was acquired by Boca Juniors along with other goalkeeper, Juan Estrada, who was chosen by the coach for the starting the line-up leaving Vacca as the sustitute goalkeeper.

In 1943, after a failed performance of Estrada during a match, Vacca had the oportunity to play in the starting line-up, which him would never leave until he finished his tenure in Boca Juniors.

Achievements

Vacca won 6 titles (1943 and 1944 Primera División

Primera división

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 championships; Copa Carlos Ibarguren 1940 and 1944; Copa Competencia Británica and Copa Confraternidad 1946). He also played for the Argentina national football team

Argentina national football team

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 7 times, receiving 12 goals. His debut with the national team was on December 16, 1945 facing Brazil

Brazil national football team

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, a match that Argentina won 4-3.

Vacca later continued his career in the Uruguay

Uruguay

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an club Defensor Sporting where became manager in 1954 and later in 1959 was named coach of the team.