He asked to join the training session, immediately causing a stirring impression and signing the very day; from there, he moved to Club Atlético Independiente, going on to help the team win two Primera División championships.

[1][2] Yazalde signed with Sporting CP ahead of the 1971–72 season, helping the Lisbon side to the 1974 Primeira Liga by scoring 46 goals in just 29 games, both a domestic and European record.

[4] In spite of having returned to his country intent on being selected for the following tournament, to be held on home soil, and with the promise of Julio Grondona, head of the Argentine Football Association, that he would make the final squad, Yazalde was ultimately not picked and fell into a deep depression.

He initially wanted to become a doctor, but as his family did not have the means to support this ambition, he began selling several items on street corners, returning home with his pockets full of small coins (known as chirolas, the singular form of the word later becoming his nickname).

Carmen – as he referred to her in Spanish, which stuck – had a brief career in acting in European cult films under the name Britt Nichols, but rarely spoke about this stage of her life since marrying the player.