Alberto Federico Acosta (born 23 August 1966 in Arocena), known popularly as "Beto" Acosta, is an Argentine former football striker.

[edit] Career

Acosta is probably most famous for becoming the top scorer in South American football in 1994. He scored a total of 33 goals to claim the title.

He played his first professional game for Unión de Santa Fe in 1986. In 1988 he moved to San Lorenzo de Almagro, a club he would play for in four spells during his career.

He also played for Boca Juniors in Argentina, Toulouse in France, Universidad Católica in Chile, Yokohama F. Marinos in Japan and Sporting Portugal in Portugal. He was one of the keys for Sporting's title in the 1999–2000 season (which failed to come to Alvalade for 18 years) and is still cherished and fondly remembered among fans. In Universidad Católica and San Lorenzo made a great society with the also former argentinian international football player Nestor Gorosito He was manager of Boca Juniors between 10 June and 20 August 2006.

[edit] Honours

Acosta was top scorer several times in different competitions, he also won several national and international tournaments.

Season	Club	Title
Apertura 1992	San Lorenzo	Primera División Argentina Topscorer: 12 goals
1992	Argentina	FIFA Confederations Cup
1993	Argentina	Copa América
1994	Universidad Católica	Primera División de Chile Player of the Year
1994	Universidad Católica	Primera División de Chile Topscorer 33 goals
1994	Universidad Católica	Topscorer in South America: 33 goals
1995	Universidad Católica	Copa Chile
1995	Universidad Católica	Copa Chile Topscorer: 10 goals
1997	Universidad Católica	Primera División de Chile
1999-2000	Sporting CP	Portuguese Liga
2002	San Lorenzo	Copa Sudamericana

[edit] Coaching Career

Acosta is currently working as the joint manager of Club Atlético Fénix of the regionalised 4th division of Argentine football.

[edit] External links

• Alberto Acosta statistics and biography at FootballDatabase.com
• Player statistics
• Article about his retirement from football

Preceded by Antony de Ávila

Copa Libertadores Top Scorer 1997

Succeeded by Sergio João

v • d • e Argentina squad – 1992 FIFA Confederations Cup Winners (1st Title) 1 Goycochea • 2 Vázquez • 3 Altamirano • 4 Basualdo • 5 Redondo • 6 Ruggeri • 7 Caniggia • 8 Villarreal • 9 Batistuta • 10 Simeone • 11 Cagna • 12 Islas • 14 Acosta • 15 Borelli • 16 García • 18 Craviotto • 20 Cancelarich • Coach: Basile

v • d • e Argentina squad – 1993 Copa América Winners (14th title) 1 Goycochea • 2 Vázquez • 3 Altamirano • 4 F.Basualdo • 5 Redondo • 6 Ruggeri • 7 Medina Bello • 8 Franco (J.Basualdo) • 9 Batistuta • 10 Simeone • 11 Gorosito • 12 Islas • 13 Cáceres • 14 Craviotto • 15 Borelli • 16 García • 17 Zapata • 18 Acosta • 19 Zamora • 20 Rodríguez • 21 Scoponi • 22 Mancuso • Coach: Basile

v • d • e Argentina squad – 1995 Copa América 1 Cristante • 2 Ayala • 3 Chamot • 4 Zanetti • 5 Pérez • 6 Cáceres • 7 Balbo • 8 Simeone • 9 Batistuta • 10 Gallardo • 11 Berti • 12 Bossio • 13 Altamirano • 14 Schürrer • 15 Fabbri • 16 Astrada • 17 Escudero • 18 Espina • 19 Ortega • 20 Acosta • 21 Borrelli • 22 Burgos • Coach: Passarella

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