Américo Miguel Tesoriere, sometimes nicknamed Mérico (Buenos Aires, March 18, 1899 – December 30, 1977), was an Argentine football goalkeeper who spent most of his career in Boca Juniors, where he became an early idol and remaining as a legend of the club. Tesoriere is also regarded as one of the best Argentine goalkeepers ever. Tesoriere was the third goalkeeper in the history of the Argentina national team after José Buruca Laforia and Carlos Wilson, winning two Copa América with the squad and keeping his goal unbeaten in both competitions. At club level, Tesoriere won 13 titles with Boca Juniors, being one of the most winning players in the history of the club behind Sebastián Battaglia. Biography Born in Barracas as Américo Miguel Tesoriero in 1899, he "established" a club with his boyhood friends, "Coronel Brandsen", named after the street where they used to play football, just in front of a butcher shop. They paid the butcher 10 cents a month to play there. When he was ten, Tesoriere went to a Boca Juniors match with his friends, becoming a strong club supporter since then. In those times Boca Juniors was not the mass phenomenon that the club would become in successive years so most of the supporters knew each other. Tesoriere started his career as goalkeeper in Club Aurora of La Boca. In 1916 a representative of Boca Juniors, Antonio Buccelli, offered Tesoriere to play for the club in the second division. Bucceli discovered Tesoriere while he was playing on a vacant land next to BA&ER rail tracks, just on Brandsen on Del Crucero streets, where the Boca Juniors stadium would start to be built in 1922. After a meeting between Tesoriere and the executives of the club, some of them did not show interest in the goalkeeper (they considered he was not physically fit to play football) but Buccelli convinced them and Tesoriere joined Boca Juniors. Tesoriere bought his first football boots to former Alumni's legend Jorge Brown. He played in the youth divisions until his official debut in the senior squad in the 1917 Primera División championship on July 22, when Boca Juniors played v Gimnasia y Esgrima (BA). Tesoriere replaced Nicolás Fabbiani, who had been seriously injured in the previous match v Tigre. Tesoriere played for Boca Juniors until 1927, except for the 1921 season when he played for Sportivo del Norte. Nicknamed La Gloria, Tesoriere