Héctor Puebla

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Héctor Puebla
Personnel
Surname Héctor Puebla Saavedra
birthday July 10, 1955
place of birth La Ligua ,  Chile
position midfield
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1977-1979 Lota's brother-in-law 60 (2)
1980-1996 CD Cobreloa 446 (?)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1984-1990 Chile 35 (1)
1 Only league games are given.

Héctor Puebla Saavedra (born July 10, 1955 in La Ligua ) is a former Chilean football player. He played for Lota Schwager and CD Cobreloa and won the Chilean championship five times with the latter club.

Career

Club career

Héctor Puebla was born on July 10, 1955 in La Ligua , a town in the Valparaíso region in central Chile . He started playing soccer at the Lota Schwager club , where he was made a member of the first team in 1977. For Lota Schwager, Héctor Puebla, who was to be found on the position of midfielder, played in the seasons 1977, 1978 and 1979 in the Primera División , the top division of Chilean club football.

After three years with Lota Schwager, Héctor Puebla switched to CD Cobreloa for the 1980 season , at that time the newcomer to Chilean football. Founded in 1977, they made it to the top of the Primera División and achieved the first championship title in club history just three years after the club was founded, when the Primera División ended in 1980 with a lead of three points over Universidad de Chile . As a result, Cobreloa was also eligible to start the Copa Libertadores 1981 , where the next surprise was caused. With first place in Group 2 of the second group phase in front of the two Uruguayan representatives Nacional Montevideo and Peñarol Montevideo , they became only the third Chilean team to make it into the final of the Copa Libertadores , the most important competition, behind CSD Colo-Colo and Unión Española for club teams in South America . There, however, the team of the Argentinian coach Vicente Cantatore was only narrowly defeated in the decider to the Brazilian favorites from Flamengo Rio de Janeiro with 0: 2. The following year it was even possible to repeat this feat. This time Peñarol Montevideo waited in the final and after a goalless draw in the first leg in Uruguay it looked very good for the hoped-for international title of the underdog, but in the second leg Peñarol came to a late 1-0 away game and thus secured the title.

With that, the successful years for Cobreloa La Calama were over at the international level. In the period that followed, successes were only achieved in the national area. The championship title from 1980 was followed by four more until 1992, with which CD Cobreloa finally established itself among the top Chilean teams. Héctor Puebla played for CD Cobreloa between 1980 and 1996, was captain of the club for many years and ended his footballing career last year in the Cobreloa jersey, for which he made a total of 446 games in the Chilean Primera División in seventeen years. In all competitions together, Puebla has a total of 662 appearances for his club.

National team

Between 1984 and 1990, Héctor Puebla played a total of 34 international matches for the Chilean national football team . In these games he scored a goal. Since the Chilean selection did not succeed in qualifying for the finals of a soccer world championship in those years, however , Héctor Puebla was denied participation in just one. For this he was twice in the Chilean squad for a Copa America , where in the 1987 edition the second place, only behind Uruguay , was achieved.

successes

1980, 1982, 1985, 1988 and 1992 with CD Cobreloa
1981 and 1982 with CD Cobreloa

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personal data
SURNAME Puebla, Héctor
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Puebla Saavedra, Héctor (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1955
PLACE OF BIRTH La Ligua , Chile