Luis Eyzaguirre

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Luis Eyzaguirre
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Eyzaguirre in 2012
Personal information
Full name Luis Armando Eyzaguirre Silva
Date of birth (1939-06-22) 22 June 1939 (age 84)
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) [1]
Position(s) Right-back
Youth career
Igualdad y Trabajo
Banfield de Yungay
Deportivo Bulnes
1956–1957 Universidad de Chile
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1958-1967 Universidad de Chile 230 (25)
1968–1971 Huachipato 123 (2)
1972–1973 Ferroviarios
International career
1958 Chile U20
1959–1966 Chile [2] 70 (3)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing Flag of Chile.svg  Chile
FIFA World Cup
Bronze medal icon.svg 1962 Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Luis Armando Eyzaguirre Silva (born 22 June 1939), also known as Fifo, [1] is a former Chilean football player.

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Career

He played as a right-back in the Universidad de Chile football team known as the Ballet Azul , with which he won five national championships. After, he spent four seasons with Huachipato (1968–1971) and ended his career with Ferroviarios in the Chilean second division. [1] [3]

At international level, he represented Chile at under-20 level in the 1958 South American Championship under Fernando Riera. [1] At senior level, he played in 1959 Copa América [4] and in the FIFA World Cup he achieved third place with the Chilean national selection for the 1962 FIFA World Cup and was one of the players involved in the Battle of Santiago incident during the Group 2 match between Chile and Italy. He played one match in the 1966 FIFA World Cup. [5] He was considered one of the best right back of his time, next to the Brazilian Djalma Santos. He played 39 matches for his country between 1959 and 1966. [6] He was one of the players invited by FIFA to play in a commemorative game celebrating the centennial anniversary of football.

Honors

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References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Luis Eyzaguirre, el Fifo". La Tercera (in Spanish). 8 October 2018. Retrieved 22 March 2024.
  2. ↑ "Luis Eyzaguirre".
  3. ↑ Lizana, José Antonio (2009). "CLUB DEPORTIVO FERROVIARIOS DE CHILE: "Cuando con mi viejo iba a la cancha …"". Rayando la cancha : crónicas deportivas (PDF) (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: Ediciones Ceacheí. p. 40. Retrieved 26 January 2024.
  4. ↑ 1959 Copa América squads at rsssf
  5. ↑ Luis Eyzaguirre – FIFA competition record (archived)
  6. ↑ Chile record international footballers at rsssf


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