He played for Ipswich , Tottenham and West Ham. Today he lives in Villasimius, Argentine defender-midfielder Mauricio Taricco, who turned 48 last March and still runs on the fields of the second category. He is in the team together with another very strong old man, Andrea Piccarreta, a Genoese with good feet, a shot at gunpoint, an infinite passion for the ball, carabiniere, who has always been transplanted to Sarrabus. In two they make almost a hundred years. Piccarreta, who in the past dragged Castiadas to Serie D for the first time, now plays in the Sarrabese Academy. He immediately called his friend Taricco. The Argentine hasn't thought twice about it: now he plays with Villaputzu's team with the enthusiasm of what he was a kid.

The carreer. Taricco began his career in the youth academy of Argentinos Juniors in Buenos Aires in the early nineties. Then the flight across the ocean to Ispwich Town in England where he will remain until 1998 with 198 appearances and nine goals. Just in 1998 he moved to Tottenham . In 2004 he moved to West Ham . An injury blocks his path to professionalism.

The arrival in Sardinia. Meanwhile he had fallen in love with his family, with Villasimius where he has lived for years, with an interval of a few more years in England as a coach, Gustavo Poyet's assistant at Brighton . In Villasimus, the then president Luca Dessì, now mayor of the town, convinced him to play by contributing to the great team that even touched Serie D. Now Villaputzu with the Academy shirt. Sunday will play the second category derby, with the San Vito of Angelo Padiglia, leaders of the group.

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