Eduardo De Saa

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Eduardo De Saa
Personal information
Full name Eduardo De Saa
Place of birth Lugo, Spain
Position(s) Defender
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
0000–1930 La Paternal
1931–? Vélez Sarsfield 14 (1)
1937–1938 Unión Española
1939–1941 Universidad de Chile 29 (1)
1942 Always Ready
International career
1941 Chile
Managerial career
1942 Always Ready
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Eduardo De Saa was a footballer who played as a defender for clubs in Argentina, Chile and Bolivia. Born in Spain, he played for the Chile national team.

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Career

Born in Lugo, Spain, De Saa developed his career in South America. He joined Vélez Sarsfield, alongside his brother Manuel Herminio, from Club Atlético La Paternal [1] [2] [3] as a forward, but he later turned into a defender. For the club, he made fourteen appearances and scored one goal. [2]

In the late 1930s, he emigrated to Chile and played for Unión Española. [4] In 1939, he joined Universidad de Chile, [5] becoming the first Argentine player in the club history. [6] With them, he won the 1940 league title, the first one for the club. [7] [8] [9]

In April 1942, he moved to Bolivia [10] and performed as both player and manager of Always Ready, coinciding with the Chilean goalkeeper Horacio Amaral. [11]

At international level, he represented the Chile in 1941 [12] becoming the third Argentine to make it after Colin Campbell (1910) and Salvador Nocetti (1940). [13]

Personal life

His brother, Manuel Herminio, [14] was a well-known defender of Vélez Sarsfield between 1926 and 1941 and represented the Argentina national team in 1935. [2]

Born in Lugo, Spain, [2] to a Spanish father and an Argentine mother, [15] he naturalized Argentine. [6]

Due to his origin, he and his brother were nicknamed Gallego . [10] [11] [15]

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  5. ↑ "U. de Chile - campañas - 1939". www.chuncho.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  6. 1 2 (Historia del Romántico Viajero) Primer argentino🇦🇷 campeón en la “U” on Facebook (in Spanish). 8 July 2021. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
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  8. ↑ "Historia del Club". LaBullanguera.cl (in Spanish). 31 May 2023. Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  9. ↑ Sandoval, Juan (8 December 2016). "Se cumplen 76 años desde que la "U" bajó su primera estrella". Dale Bulla (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 August 2023.
  10. 1 2 "DE SAA SE FUE A BOLIVIA" (PDF). La Nación (in Spanish). 8902. Santiago, Chile: 2. 20 April 1942. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
  11. 1 2 "SOBRE FOOTBALL EN BOLIVIA NOS HABLA EDUARDO DE SAA" (PDF). La Nación (in Spanish). 9175. Santiago, Chile: 4. 18 January 1943. Retrieved 17 August 2023.
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