José Sanfilippo

José Francisco "El Nene" Sanfilippo (born 4 May 1935) is a former Argentine footballer who played as a striker.

Sanfilippo was born in Buenos Aires. During his club career he played for San Lorenzo, Boca Juniors and Banfield in Argentina, Nacional in Uruguay, and Bangu and SC Bahia in Brazil.

He scored his first league goal for San Lorenzo on 21 November 1953 against Banfield, and went on to score 192 league goals for them up to 1962.

In 1963 he moved to Boca Juniors, although in 1964 he was dismissed from the club following a disciplinary incident in a match against his former club, San Lorenzo.

He is the 5th highest scoring player in Argentine football.

At international level, Sanfilippo played for the Argentina national football team in the 1958 FIFA World Cup and the 1962 FIFA World Cup. He was also part of the Argentina squads that won the 1955 Pan American Games and the 1957 South American Championship, and featured in the team that finished second at the 1959 South American Championship in Ecuador, finishing as the tournament's top-scorer. He is the joint ninth-highest goalscorer for the Argentina national football team, alongside Leopoldo Luque, with 22 goals.

Club

San Lorenzo

• Argentine Primera División (3): 1959, 1972 (Metropolitano), 1972 (Nacional)

Bahia

• Campeonato Baiano (2): 1970, 1971

International

Argentina

• Pan-American Games: 1955
• Copa América: 1957

Individual

• Argentine Primera División To-scorer (4): 1958 (28 goals), 1959 (31 goals), 1960 (34 goals), 1961 (26 goals)
• Copa América Top-scorer: 1959
• Copa Libertadores Top-scorer: 1963 (7 goals)

• Emmanuel Castro Serna (9 July 2009). "Argentina - List of Topscorers". RSSSF.com. Retrieved 2 September 2016. 
• Martín Tabeira (12 August 2009). "Southamerican Championship 1959 (2nd Tournament) - Scorers' List". RSSSF.com. Retrieved 2 September 2016. 
• John Beuker; Pablo Ciullini; Osvaldo Gorgazzi (9 April 2010). "Copa Libertadores de América 1963". RSSSF. Retrieved 2 September 2016.