He had health conditions and died at a Hospital in Guayaquil, Ecuador, aged 87.
[1] Born in Buenos Aires, Raffo started his playing career with Club Atlético Platense in Argentina.
In 1954 he joined Emelec where he would play many seasons, scoring 132 goals.
Raffo is considered to be one of the greatest goalscorers in the history of the Ecuadorian football, but the precise number of goals he scored will probably never be known, due to poor record keeping in the early 1950s.
Raffo played international football for Ecuador between 1959 and 1963, he scored 10 goals in 13 games for his adoptive country.