José Sanfilippo

Sanfilippo was born in Buenos Aires on 4 May 1935. Sanfilippo 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, Sanfilippo 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. Sanfilippo joined Uruguayan side Nacional in 1964, after the first round of the Copa Libertadores. He scored against Colo Colo in the only Copa match he played for the club, before getting injured in a friendly match. As of 2026, Sanfilippo was the ninth-highest-scoring player in Argentine football.

At international level, Sanfilippo played for the Argentina national team in the 1958 FIFA World Cup and the 1962 FIFA World Cup.

San Lorenzo

Primera División: 1959, 1972 Metropolitano, 1972 Nacional Boca Juniors

Copa Libertadores runner-up: 1963 Nacional

Torneo Cuadrangular: 1964 Bahia

Campeonato Baiano: 1970, 1971 Argentina

Pan American Games: 1955 Copa América: 1957 Individual

Argentine Primera División top scorer: 1958 (28 goals), 1959 (31 goals), 1960 (34 goals), 1961 (26 goals) Copa América top scorer: 1959 Copa Libertadores top scorer: 1963 (7 goals)