The recently appointed director of the Federal Administration of Public Revenues (AFIP), Carlos Castagneto, has a political tradition that dates back to 1993 when he was appointed as management coordinator of the Institute for Minors in the province of Buenos Aires; but his football career is what matters to us, and El Gráfico was present at various times.
Carlos Castagneto was born on November 1, 1960 in La Plataand his debut under the three sticks is given in the club that formed him: Gymnastics and Fencing of La Plata. in said club debuted on November 20, 1982 in a 4-3 defeat against Deportivo Armenio on the last date of the, until then, First Division B. In the Lobo Platense he defended the goal until August 1985already in First Division football.
Castagneto defending the arch from the La Plata wolf (year 1984)
was transferred to Defenders of Belgrano to spend a few months and then stop at the temperley of 1986 that was saved from relegation.
The only time in a so-called big club was when, after a brief experience in the Bucaramanga of Colombia, saved for 8 games at San Lorenzo del Bambino Veira, during the 1988/89 season in which matches were decided by penalties after a tie. In that season he was a substitute for Esteban Poganybut also shared a campus with Flavio Zandoná, Blas Giunta, Pipo Gorosito and the current head of the Argentine Football Associations (FAA), Sergio Marchi.
The arch of San Lorenzo was also defended by Castagneto in 1988
With the Athletic Club Quilmes He won the First National tournament in the 90/91 season and stayed for two years defending the “brewer’s” goal.
The last three years of his career (1991 to 1993) were spent in three different countries in South America.
In 1991 he won his only first division title when he won the Decentralized Championship defending Sporting Cristal from Peru.. In 1992 he moved to Chile to tackle Sports La Serena, where the tournament ends in ninth place. And his last club, in 1993, was the Paraguayan Guaraniwhich culminated in third place in the final phase of a championship that remained unfinished and was won by Olympia after a meeting of leaders.
that same 1993 was the year that Castagneto graduated from National Public Accountant and a short time later he would enter, as mentioned at the beginning, as management coordinator of the Institute for Minors of the Province of Buenos Aires.
However, Castagneto’s last approach to football was from the leadership, since In 2013, he ran for president of Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata while continuing his political career.. He lost those elections by just 166 votes against the one who was president of the wolf until recently, Daniel Onofri.
The last Argentine club where Castagneto saved was Quilmes, until 1991.
