Mario Boyé

Mario Emilio Heriberto Boyé Auterio (30 July 1922 – 21 July 1992) was an Argentine footballer. A powerful winger or striker, he played for Boca Juniors, Racing Club de Avellaneda and Huracán in Argentina, Genoa in Italy and Millonarios in Colombia.

Mario Boyé

Boyé while playing for Boca Juniors in the 1940s
Personal information
Full name	Mario Emilio Heriberto Boyé Auterio
Date of birth	(1922-07-30)July 30, 1922
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death	July 21, 1992(1992-07-21) (aged 69)
Position(s)	Winger/Striker
Youth career
1936–1941	Boca Juniors
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1941–1949	Boca Juniors	190	(108)
1949	Genoa	18	(12)
1950	Millonarios
1950–1953	Racing Club	84	(33)
1954	Huracán	20	(7)
1955	Boca Juniors	18	(5)
International career
1945–1951	Argentina	17	(7)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of August 2007

Nicknamed El Atómico (The Atomic One), he started playing in the youth division of Boca Juniors to debut in first division on 8 June 1941 in the victory against Independiente, and scoring his first goal a week later against Huracán. With Boca he won the 1943 and 1944 Argentine leagues, and was the league's top-scorer in 1946 with 24 goals. He moved to Italy where he became "Il Matadore" (The Killer), but returned to Argentina four seasons later. After winning the 1951 league with Racing and playing one season for Huracán, he returned to Boca to retire a year later. He played 228 matches for Boca in all competitions, scoring 124 goals.^[1]
He was the top scorer in the Copa del Atlántico 1947 with 5 goals, a non-CONMEBOL tournament which is considered one of the precursors of the Copa Libertadores.^[2]

National team

Boyé played for the Argentina national team between 1945 and 1951. He was on the Argentine teams that won the Copa América three times, in 1945,^[3] 1946^[4] and 1947.^[5]

After retirement

Boyé had a brief spell in charge of Boca Juniors in 1961. In 1963 former Boca Juniors player Mario Boyé and former San Lorenzo de Almagro player René Pontoni, brothers-in-law who had both been members of Argentine national teams, set up a pizzeria in Belgrano, Buenos Aires, La Guitarrita, which expanded into a chain, still run by Pontoni's grandson as of 2024^[update].^[6]

Honours

Boca Juniors

• Argentine Primera División: 1943, 1944
• Copa Ibarguren: 1944
• Copa de Competencia: 1946
• Copa de Confraternidad: 1945, 1946

Racing

• Argentine Primera División: 1950, 1951

Argentina

• Copa América: 1945, 1946, 1947