Agustín Cejas

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Agustín Cejas

Full name	Agustín Mario Cejas
Date of birth	March 22, 1945 (1945-03-22) (age 63)
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Youth clubs
1959-1962	Racing Club
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1962-1969 1970-1975 1975 1975-1976 1977-1980 1981	Racing Club Santos Huracán Grêmio Racing Club River Plate	313 (0) (total) ? (?) 50 (0) ? (?) (see above) 09 (0)
National team
1964	Argentina	? (?)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of October 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Agustín Mario Cejas (born March 22, 1946 in Buenos Aires) is a former Argentine football goalkeeper. He played for a number of clubs in Argentina and Brazil and has the all time record number of appearances for Racing Club de Avellaneda.

Cejas joined the Racing Club youth team in 1959 at the age of 13. He made his first team debut in 1962 at the age of 17. In 1966 he helped Racing Club to win the Argentine Primera. The following year Racing won the Copa Libertadores 1967 to become Libertadores champions of South America for the first and only time in the clubs history. They followed this up by beating Celtic F.C. in the Copa Intercontinental to become the first Argentine club champions of the world.

In 1970 Cejas joined Santos in Brazil where he played in the same team as Pelé. In 1973 Cejas helped Santos to win the Campeonato Paulista and received the prestigious Bola de Ouro as the best player in Brazil.

Cejas returned to Argentina in 1975 for a brief spell with Club Atlético Huracán before going back to Brazil to join Grêmio.

In 1977 Cejas returned to Racing Club where he played until 1980, by the end of his 2nd stint with the club he had set a club record of 313 appearances. He then had a short spell with River Plate where he was part of the squad that won the Nacional in 1981.

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Season	Team	Title
1966	Racing Club	Primera División Argentina
1967	Racing Club	Copa Libertadores
1967	Racing Club	Copa Intercontinental
1973	Santos	Campeonato Paulista
Nacional	River Plate	Primera División Argentina