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Ricardo Infante (ESTUDIANTES v Rosario Central, Argentinean Primera Division, 1948)
The Argentina international Ricardo Infante, a prolific striker with Estudiantes, is credited with creating the technique when he scored the final goal of a 3-0 win over Rosario Central in 1948, firing home from 35 metres. It was a goal "so outlandish", the Clarín newspaper reported, "that both the beaten keeper and the game´s referee did something uncommon: they ran to him to acknowledge it with admiration".
However, as Infante told journalist Walter Raino on the 50th anniversary of his strike, his effort did not receive the credit it might have warranted. "It is a goal that did not have the impact it deserved," he said. "At the time, we lacked the television and print media to cover every game."
Only one reporter, from the now-defunct La Plata paper El Argentino, was able to relate the magic moment, and El Gráfico, an Argentinean magazine, that week diverted its praise to a simple headed goal from Ruben Bravo. However, it was the same magazine that afterwards produced a cartoon of Infante as a student titled "El infante que se hizo la rabona"*, and his goal gained greater recognition through its coverage in a book by Ricardo Marelli, a doctor with the famous Estudiantes team of the 1960s.
* The title was a pun based on his name - infante refers to a youth - while hacerse rabona was a contemporary term in Argentina for skipping school, which, it would appear, is being used in this sense to imply the forward had done something tricksy.
http://www.espnfc.co.uk/story/1300129/first-xi-the-art-of-rabona