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The Racing side that beat Celtic, at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo on the day of the play-off, 4 November 1967. Standing: Cejas, Basile, Perfumo, Martín, Chabay and Rulli; crouching: Cardoso, Maschio, Cárdenas, Rodríguez and Raffo
The Racing side that beat Celtic, at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo on the day of the play-off, 4 November 1967. Standing: Cejas, Basile, Perfumo, Martín, Chabay and Rulli; crouching: Cardoso, Maschio, Cárdenas, Rodríguez and Raffo

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November 4, 1967 · Racing Club

Racing 1967: El Chango's left-footed strike and Argentina's first world champions

On 4 November 1967, at Montevideo's Centenario, a left-footed thunderbolt from Chango Cárdenas beat European champions Celtic in a play-off full of hard tackles and red cards, and made Juan José Pizzuti's Racing the first Argentine club to become world champions.

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On 4 November 1967, at the Estadio Centenario in Montevideo, a left-footed strike from Juan Carlos Cárdenas won Racing Club the Intercontinental Cup against Celtic of Glasgow, the champions of Europe. It was the first time an Argentine club had claimed the world title. Behind that goal was a team that had been bottom of the table two years earlier and that, along the way, broke records, played an endless Libertadores and survived one of the most violent nights in South American football.

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