Santiago Santamaría

Santiago Santamaría
	Santamaría in early 1970s
Personal information
Full name	Santiago Santamaría
Date of birth	22 August 1952
Place of birth	San Nicolás de los Arroyos, Argentina
Date of death	27 July 2013 (aged 60)
Place of death	Córdoba city, Argentina
Height	1.69 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Winger
Senior career*
Years	Team
1971–1974	Newell's Old Boys
1974–1979	Reims
1980–1983	Newell's Old Boys
1984	Talleres
International career
1980–1982	Argentina
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Santiago "Cucurucho" Santamaría (22 August 1952 – 27 July 2013) was an Argentine professional footballer who played primarily as a winger.

During his club career he played for Newell's Old Boys (1971–74, 1980–83), Stade de Reims (1974–1979), and Talleres de Córdoba (1984). He played for the Argentina national team in the 1982 FIFA World Cup. In Newell's, Santamaría ranks 2nd among the all-time top scorers, with 90 goals scored during his two tenures in the club.

After his retirement, he settled in Córdoba, where he died from a heart attack on 27 July 2013.^[1]

Highlights

In April 1978 Santamaría was the last player to score a hat-trick for Stade de Reims in the top flight before Boulaye Dia repeated the feat in October 2020.^[2]