Eduardo Bonvallet
| Eduardo Bonvallet | ||
 Eduardo Bonvallet in 2007
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| Personnel | ||
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| Surname | Eduardo Guillermo Bonvallet Godoy | |
| birthday | January 13, 1955 | |
| place of birth | Santiago , Chile | |
| date of death | 18th September 2015 | |
| Place of death | Santiago , Chile | |
| size | 180 cm | |
| position | midfield | |
| Juniors | ||
| Years | station | |
| 1968-1972 | Universidad de Chile | |
| Men's | ||
| Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
| 1973-1974 | Universidad de Chile | 36 (4) |
| 1975-1977 | Universidad Católica | 46 (5) |
| 1978-1979 | CD O'Higgins | 53 (1) |
| 1980 | Universidad Católica | 17 (0) |
| 1980 | Fort Lauderdale Strikers | 16 (2) |
| 1981-1982 | Universidad Católica | 48 (2) |
| 1983 | Unión San Felipe | 14 (0) |
| 1983 | Tampa Bay rowdies | 11 (0) |
| National team | ||
| Years | selection | Games (goals) |
| 1979-1982 | Chile | 24 (0) |
| Stations as a trainer | ||
| Years | station | |
| 2007 | Deportes Temuco | |
| 1 Only league games are given. | ||
Eduardo Guillermo Bonvallet Godoy (born January 13, 1955 in Santiago , † September 18, 2015 ibid) was a Chilean football player. Active at club level for Universidad de Chile , Universidad Católica and O'Higgins Rancagua , among others , he also took part in the 1982 World Cup in Spain with the national team of his home country .
Career
Club career
Eduardo Bonvallet was born on January 13, 1955 in Santiago , the capital of Chile , and began his football career there in the youth of CF Universidad de Chile , where he began playing in 1968. In 1972 the defensive midfielder was accepted into the club's first team. From 1972 to 1974 Bonvallet ran in the sequence in 36 championship games for Universidad de Chile, scoring four goals. A title win did not succeed in this phase.
From 1975 Eduardo Bonvallet played again for three seasons for CD Universidad Católica , also based in Santiago de Chile. Also with this club Bonvallet could not win a title, while he came to a total of 46 games in the league, in which he hit the opposing goal five times. In the seasons 1978 and 1979 followed a job for CD O'Higgins from Rancagua , for which he ran up in a total of 53 league games and thereby scored one goal. The Primera División 1978 ended in a surprisingly good third place and qualified for the first time in the club's history for the Copa Libertadores , where they were eliminated after the group stage. In 1980 Eduardo Bonvallet played again for Universidad Católica, where he made seventeen league games.
In the middle of 1980 Eduardo Bonvallet moved to the United States for the Fort Lauderdale Strikers . With the club Bonvallet reached the Soccer Boal, the final of the championship of the North American Soccer League . Here, however, they lost to New York Cosmos around Franz Beckenbauer , Johan Neeskens and Giorgio Chinaglia with 0: 3 and became American runner-up.
In 1981 Eduardo Bonvallet returned to Chile to rejoin Universidad Católica. In the following two years he made another 48 league games for the club, in which he scored two goals. In 1983 he first played for half a year for Unión San Felipe , before moving back to the USA for the second half of the season and spending it with the Tampa Bay Rowdies . Eduardo Bonvallet ended his playing career in 1983 at the age of 28 in this team's jersey.
National team
Between 1979 and 1982 Eduardo Bonvallet made a total of 24 international matches for the Chilean national football team . A goal he did not succeed here. By national coach Luis Santibáñez he was appointed to the South American squad for the 1982 World Cup in Spain . At the tournament, Bonvallet was a regular in midfield for the Chileans and was used in all three games. The Chilean team was less successful at the 1982 World Cup. In a group with the Federal Republic of Germany , Austria and Algeria you could not win a single point and dropped out as the bottom of the group after the preliminary round. Then it would take until 1998 before a Chilean national team could qualify for a soccer World Cup again.
Eduardo Bonvallet had previously participated in the 1979 Copa America with the Chilean national team . Here the selection of Chile took second place in the end, after only having to admit defeat to Paraguay because of the worse goal difference .
Postactive time
After finishing his career at just 28, Eduardo Bonallet worked for many years as a commentator for Chilean television. He was for the station Canal 13 as an expert in the FIFA World Cup 2002 in Japan and South Korea and in 2010 in South Africa go.
Furthermore, Bonvallet was briefly active as a trainer. However, his work at Deportes Temuco in 2007 was neither successful nor long-lasting.
In 2011 Bonvallet was diagnosed with stomach cancer and a year later he said he was cured. Eduardo Bonvallet committed suicide by hanging on September 18, 2015 in Santiago de Chile after he was said to have previously suffered from depression.
Web links
- Eduardo Bonvallet in the database of weltfussball.de
- Eduardo Bonvallet in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)
- Eduardo Bonvallet in the database of FIFA (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ elgraficochile.cl El parte policial sobre la muerte de Bonvallet habla de suicidio
| personal data | |
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| SURNAME | Bonvallet, Eduardo |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bonvallet Godoy, Eduardo Guillermo (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean soccer player |
| DATE OF BIRTH | January 13, 1955 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago , Chile |
| DATE OF DEATH | 18th September 2015 |
| Place of death | Santiago , Chile |