martn carlos alarcn in brazil often just alarcn born 25 december 1928 in formosa argentina was an association football playerit is reported that the short skillful and very speedy attacker commenced his career in 1945 at the lowly club sportivo patria in his hometown several years later the paraguayan national team coach manuel fleitas solich helped him to a contracted with club libertad in the capital asuncinin 1951 he returned to argentina to play for the top club ca river plate in buenos aires where he had little success competing with players like angel labruna felix loustau and walter gomez for an attacker position thus in 1952 he took the opportunity to play again for libertad after competing without much success in the copa rio of 1952 libertad went on to become runnerup in the national championship in 1953 libertad became again runner up in the championship and players from the club made up the majority of the paraguayan national team that in the same year won for the first time the south american championshipin 1954 martn alarcn moved to brazil where he joined america fc in rio de janeiro coached by martim francisco who is credited with introducing the 424system alongside players like lenidas da silva the ageing top scorer of the 1938 world cup and canrio who would later win titles with real madrid he reached in 1954 and 1955 the second place in the championship of rio de janeiro on both occasions behind cr flamengo in the best of three series for the title 1955 america lost the first match to flamengo 01 and won the second one 51 in the decisive match on 6 april 1956 in the maracan stadium in front of almost 140000 spectators record crowd to a match with america alarcn had to leave the field injured early in the first halftime after an attack by flamengo defender tomires substitutions were not allowed then and the balance of the match swung to flamengo then coached by fleitas solich which won eventually 41 and thus attained its third consecutive titlealarcn who is sometimes considered the top player of this era of america fc had two more good years with the club in 1956 and 1957 in the latter year scoring 14 goals in the riochampionship his highest tally ever however america had to make do with the 5th and 6th places from mid1958 forward alarcn only received little if any playing time eventually early 1960 the year when america would win its seventh and hitherto last riochampionship alarcn left the clubin january 1960 he joined cd los millonarios in the colombian capital bogot with the club he won under the legendary coach gabriel ochoa uribe the championships on 1961 and 1962he died in 1988 1