lit a candle 2h ago1973. that's the number everyone's posting, don't really know the context but it keeps coming up
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Carlos Babington was an Argentine footballer, coach and club president whose left foot made him one of the stars of the celebrated Huracán side that won the 1973 Metropolitano championship under César Luis Menotti. He played for Argentina at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany. He died on Wednesday…
Carlos Babington was an Argentine footballer, coach and club president whose left foot made him one of the stars of the celebrated Huracán side that won the 1973 Metropolitano championship under César Luis Menotti. He played for Argentina at the 1974 World Cup in West Germany. He died on Wednesday 11 November 2026 at the age of 77.
Carlos Alberto Babington was born in Buenos Aires on 20 September 1949. His grandfather had emigrated from England, and he was known throughout his career as El Inglés, the Englishman. His first teacher in the game was Renato Cesarini. He made his first team debut for Huracán in 1968 on a tour of Spain and from 1970 became a central figure in the Parque Patricios side, forming a famous partnership with Miguel Brindisi alongside René Houseman, Omar Larrosa and Alfio Basile.
Wearing the number 10, Babington was a key player as Huracán won the 1973 Metropolitano from start to finish, the club's only league title of the professional era, and that team is still regarded as one of the finest in Argentine football history. He won 13 caps for Argentina, scoring twice, and went to the 1974 World Cup. Afterwards he stayed in West Germany to play four seasons for SG Wattenscheid 09, then returned to Huracán from 1978 to 1982. He finished his playing career with the Tampa Bay Rowdies in the United States and Atlético Junior in Barranquilla, Colombia, in 1983.
As a coach he began at Platense in the mid 1980s and went on to manage Banfield, Racing, River Plate, León in Mexico and Chacarita Juniors, as well as four spells at Huracán, with whom he won the second division title in 1990 and 2000. In 2006 he was elected president of Huracán. The club won promotion and came close to the 2009 Clausura title under Ángel Cappa, but he resigned in 2011 amid a serious institutional and financial crisis. He and Daniel Passarella are the only men to have been player, coach and president of the same Argentine club.
Babington was a close friend of Alfio Basile for decades and was godfather to Basile's son, Marcelo. Announcing his death, Huracán called him one of the greatest footballers Argentine football has produced.
Biography adapted from Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0), La Nación and Club Atlético Huracán. Wikipedia ↗
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1Carlos Babington at Argentina's training camp during the 1974 World Cup
by People Forever
Metropolitano title, Huracán's only league win. Before our time too.