Enzo Escobar

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Enzo Escobar
Personnel
Surname Enzo Sergio Escobar Olivares
birthday November 10, 1951
place of birth Chile
position defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1972-1975 Everton Viña del Mar 31 0(4)
1975-1979 Unión Española 117 (10)
1980-1987 CD Cobreloa 171 0(8)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1976-1982 Chile 25 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.

Enzo Sergio Escobar Olivares (born November 10, 1951 ) is a former Chilean football player. Active at club level for Unión Española and CD Cobreloa , among others , he took part in the 1982 World Cup in Spain with the national team of his home country .

Career

Club career

Enzo Escobar, born on November 10, 1951, began playing football for the CD Everton de Viña del Mar club in the city of the same name on the Pacific coast. The defender played for Everton until 1975 before he moved to Santiago de Chile for Unión Española . Unión Española had just moved into the final of the Copa Libertadores , but had to admit defeat to the Argentinian representative Independiente Avellaneda . The team continued to operate successfully in the years that followed. In 1977, for example, the Chilean football championship was won after taking first place in the Primera División two points ahead of Everton de Viña del Mar. The following participation in the Copa Libertadores was not very successful with the elimination in the first round.

Enzo Escobar played from 1975 to 1979 for Unión Española and brought it in this time to 117 league games for the club from the Estadio Santa Laura , where he got ten goals. In 1979 he changed clubs and from then on played for CD Cobreloa , a club from the city of Calama that had been founded only two years earlier . Enzo Escobar experienced his most successful time as a football player in the CD Cobreloa jersey. With the club, Escobar won the first championship ever for the still young club in the 1980 season. They took first place in the Primera División, three points ahead of CF Universidad de Chile . As a result, Cobreloa was also eligible to start the Copa Libertadores 1981 , where they placed in the second group stage ahead of Nacional Montevideo and Peñarol Montevideo and qualified for the final against the Brazilian representative Flamengo Rio de Janeiro . There Cobreloa lost to the team around Zico and Júnior with 0-2 after the playoff after it had been drawn on both sides. Also in the following edition of the Copa Libertadores CD Cobreloa managed to reach the final, where this time Peñarol Montevideo was waiting for the team of coach Vicente Cantatore . After a goalless draw in Montevideo , the signs for the first success of a Chilean team in the Libertadores Cup were actually ideal, but with a goal from Fernando Morena the Uruguayan team won 1-0 in the return leg in Santiago de Chile.

This ended the dream of winning the Copa Libertadores for Cobreloa, in the next few years the club did not make it to the final again. Instead, two more championships were won while Enzo Escobar was in Calama. In 1982 and 1985 Cobreloa was at the top of the Primera División. Enzo Escobar ended his footballing career in 1987 at the age of 36 as a CD Cobreloa player, a year before the club became champions again.

National team

Between 1976 and 1982 Enzo Escobar made 25 appearances in the Chilean national football team . However, he did not succeed in scoring. By national coach Luis Santibáñez he was appointed to the South American squad for the 1982 World Cup in Spain. Escobar was not used in the tournament. For the Chilean team, this World Cup was disastrous. Without winning a single point, they were eliminated in the group stage in a group with Germany , Austria and Algeria .

successes

1977 with Unión Española
1980, 1982 and 1985 with CD Cobreloa
1981 and 1982 with CD Cobreloa

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personal data
SURNAME Escobar, Enzo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Escobar Olivares, Enzo Sergio (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 10, 1951
PLACE OF BIRTH Chile