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The following lists events that happened during 1991 in Chile.
The CONMEBOL Copa América, known until 1975 as the South American Football Championship, is the top men's football tournament contested among national teams from South America. It is the oldest still-running continental football competition, as well as the third most watched in the world. The competition determines the champions of South America. Since the 1990s, teams from North America and Asia have also been invited to compete.
The Chile national football team represents Chile in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Federación de Fútbol de Chile which was established in 1895. The team is commonly referred to as La Roja. Chile has appeared in nine World Cup tournaments and were hosts of the 1962 FIFA World Cup where they finished in third place, the highest position the country has ever achieved in the World Cup.
Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano, they play in the Chilean Primera División, from which they have never been relegated. The team has played its home games at Estadio Monumental David Arellano since 1989. Colo-Colo is regarded as the most successful club of Chilean football.
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Deportes Temuco is a Chilean football club based in Temuco, Araucanía Region. It currently plays in the Chilean Primera División B, holding home games at the new Estadio Municipal Germán Becker.
Leonardo ("Leo") Adrián Rodríguez Iacobitti is an Argentine former football midfielder. He played for nine different club sides in his career, and represented the Argentina national football team between 1991 and 1994.
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Jaime Augusto Pizarro Herrera is a Chilean politician, teacher, and former football player and coach who played 53 times for the Chile national team between 1986 and 1993. He serves as Minister of sports in Gabriel Boric's government. He formerly served as sub-secretary of the National Institute of Sports of the government of Michelle Bachelet. At club level, he played as a midfielder, principally for the Chilean club Colo-Colo, the team where he was crowned champion both as a player and as a coach.
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Eduardo Jesús Vargas Rojas is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Brazilian Série A club Atlético Mineiro and the Chile national team.
Jaime Andrés Vera Rodríguez is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a midfielder. He is currently in charge of Deportes Puerto Montt.
Francisco Andrés Silva Gajardo, known as Francisco Silva, is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder for Deportes Limache in the Primera B de Chile. He is considered one of the greatest Chilean defensive midfielders of all time. His winning penalty in Copa America Centenario gave Chile their second consecutive Copa America title.
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Julieta Campusano was a Chilean politician, belonging to the Communist Party of Chile. Campusano was a member of the Central Committee of the Communist Party.
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Mireya Baltra Moreno was a Chilean sociologist, journalist, and politician of the Communist Party of Chile. She was a councillor (1963–1969) and a deputy (1969–1973) for Santiago, and served as Minister of Labour and Social Welfare in Salvador Allende's government.
Campusano is a surname, better know as a "Hispanic suname", however if it is translate in two syllables (campu-sano) it will translates "healthy field" in the Corsican Corsican language. Then "Campusano is a Corsican surname", and it is verifiable once the quantity of the Campusano surname is searched worldwide, which lead to the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico. The part of Corsicans Corsicans that emigrated to Puerto Rico was in the early as 1830 and 1900.
Julieta is a predominantly Spanish and Portuguese variant of the given name Julia. Notable people with this name include:
