Pedro Calomino

Pedro Calomino
Personal information
Full name Bleo Pedro Fournol Calomino
Date of birth (1892-03-13)13 March 1892
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Date of death 12 January 1950(1950-01-12) (aged 57)
Position(s) Winger
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1911–1913 Boca Juniors 28 (12)
1914 Hispano Argentino (?)
1915–1924 Boca Juniors 194 (85)
International career
1917–1921 Argentina 37 (5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Bleo Pedro Fournol, mostly known as Pedro Calomino (also nicknamed Calumín) [note 1] (13 March 1892 – 12 January 1950) was an Argentine footballer who played as right winger. Calomino spent nearly all of his career in Boca Juniors, having also played 37 games for the Argentina national team where he scored 5 goals.[1] It is claimed that Calomino invented the step over move[2][3][4]

Calomino is also regarded to be the first idol of Boca Juniors[5] –where he won 9 titles– and one of the best right wingers of Argentina.[6] With Argentina he won the 1921 South American Championship, the first official title for the national team.[7] He is also the earliest known player to use the classic skill move - the stepover.[4][8]


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  1. ^ rsssf: Argentina record international football
  2. ^ 1919 El año que Boca se hizo grande para siempre by Julián Iglesias on Infonews, 18 November 2012
  3. ^ "De rabonas y otras yerbas", TN.com.ar, 27 Jan 2010
  4. ^ a b Simpson, Paul; Hesse, Uli (2013). Who Invented the Stepover?: and other crucial football conundrums. London: Profile Books. p. 39. ISBN 9781847658425. Retrieved 31 August 2015.
  5. ^ Dáguele Calumín on El Gráfico, published on 21 June 1940
  6. ^ Pedro Calomino Archived 2011-07-06 at the Wayback Machine on Informe Xeneize
  7. ^ Los primeros criollos campeones, El Gráfico (1949)
  8. ^ "Stepover | Soccer Tricks". 5 February 2024. Retrieved 18 February 2024.