Armando Tobar

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Armando Tobar
Personnel
Surname Armando Segundo Tobar Vargas
birthday June 7, 1938
place of birth Chile
date of death 18th November 2016
Place of death Viña del Mar ,  Chile
position attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1958-1961 Santiago Wanderers
1962-1968 CD Universidad Católica
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1959-1967 Chile 33 (0)
1 Only league games are given.

Armando Segundo Tobar Vargas (born June 7, 1938 , † November 18, 2016 in Viña del Mar ) was a Chilean football player . Active at club level for the Santiago Wanderers and Universidad Católica , he took part with the national team of his home country in the football world championships in 1962 and 1966 and reached third place in the first-mentioned tournament.

Career

Club career

Armando Tobar began his football career with the Santiago Wanderers in Valparaíso . In 1958, at the age of 20, the attacker made his debut in the Wanderers' first team and became the Chilean champion in his first year. The 1958 season ended the Santiago Wanderers in first place in the Primera División with a lead of one point on CSD Colo-Colo . It was the first ever title win in the history of the Santiago Wanderers club. Armando Tobas played for the club from 1958 to 1961 before he moved to the capital Santiago de Chile and from then on played for CD Universidad Católica .

Armando Tobas also won a title in the Chilean Primera División with his new employer. In the first year after his arrival in the east of Santiago de Chile, he and his team made it into the championship playoff, where they were defeated by city rivals Universidad de Chile 3: 5. Armando Tobar scored 1: 2 in the meantime. After finishing fifth the following year, Universidad de Chile was again narrowly beaten in 1964. After Universidad de Chile was just better in 1965, the 1966 Primera División finally won the title. After the end of all game days, the team around players like Alberto Fouilloux , Ignacio Prieto or Adán Godoy was in first place in the table with four points ahead of Colo-Colo and thus achieved the fourth championship title in the club's history. In the last two years of Armando Tobar's work for Universidad Católica, you had to bow back to Universidad de Chile or the Santiago Wanderers.

Armando Tobar ended his football career in 1968 at the age of 30 wearing the Universidad Católica shirt.

National team

Between 1959 and 1967 Armando Tobar made a total of 33 international matches for the Chilean national soccer team . A goal he did not succeed. He was appointed to the South American squad for the 1962 World Cup in his own country by national coach Fernando Riera . At the tournament Tobar was used in four games of his team. After missing the first two group matches against Switzerland and Italy , he made his World Cup debut in the last group match against West Germany (final score: 2-0). In the further course of the tournament Tobar kept his place in the Chilean team and completed both the 2-1 success against the Soviet Union in the quarter-finals, as well as the 2: 4 defeat against the eventual world champions Brazil in the semifinals. Riera also used him in the game for third place against Yugoslavia (final score: 1-0).

Four years later, Armando Tobar was also part of the Chilean squad that was nominated by national coach Luis Álamos for the 1966 World Cup in England . However, as the bottom of the group in the preliminary round, the Chilean team was eliminated early this time. Armando Tobar only played in his team's first group game, the 2-0 defeat against Italy. The attacker missed the two other matches against North Korea (final score: 1: 1) and the Soviet Union (final score: 1: 2).

successes

Chilean Championship :

1958 with the Santiago Wanderers
1966 with Universidad Católica

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fallce Armando Tobar, ex mundialista con “La Roja” en 1962 y 1966 . Tele13 , November 18, 2016, accessed November 20, 2016 (Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Tobar, Armando
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Tobar Vargas, Armando Segundo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 7, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Chile
DATE OF DEATH 18th November 2016
Place of death Viña del Mar