Leonel Sánchez

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Leonel Sánchez

Leonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros (born April 25, 1936 in Santiago de Chile ) is a former Chilean football player .

The club career

Leonel Sánchez played at CF Universidad de Chile as a child and stayed with the club for much of his playing days. As a 17-year-old, the 1.76-meter-tall left winger was used in his country's top division. He won his first national championship title in 1959 with Universidad. In 1955 he was appointed to the Chilean national football team for the first time . By 1969 there were five more championships for the club and its players.

At the age of 33, Sánchez put on another club jersey for the first time, namely the black and white of the no less successful, but more popular in Chile Colo Colo Santiago , for whom he was a stroke of luck with his routine and which he also led to the title win. For him personally it was the seventh championship in 17 seasons. He let his career come to an end with two second divisions, CD Palestino de Santiago and Ferrobádminton de Chile .

He then completed a trainer training and worked again in various functions for Universidad de Chile.

Player stations

  • CF Universidad de Chile Santiago (1953–1969)
  • CSD Colo Colo Santiago (1969/70)
  • CD Palestino de Santiago (1970/71)
  • Ferrobádminton de Chile (1971/72)

The national player

Between 1955 and August 1968 Leonel Sánchez made 85 international appearances for the Chilean national team , scoring 24 goals. With his 53rd international match on March 23, 1963, he replaced Sergio Livingstone as his country's record international and stayed that way until October 10, 2014. Then he was surpassed by Claudio Bravo .

The highlight of these international appearances was undoubtedly the 1962 World Cup in his home country , which saw a Sánchez in top form, who took his blue-reds as playmaker to the semi-finals (2: 4 against eventual world champions Brazil ) and then to third place (1: 0 against Yugoslavia ). With his four goals in the six World Cup games, the left winger was also one of the six top scorer in this tournament; He scored two goals in the preliminary round against the Swiss , one each in the quarter (against the USSR ) and one in the semifinals.
However, it also provided one of the inglorious highlights of this final round. In the “ Battle of Santiago ” against Italy , which was referred to as a “turf war”, “mourning” and “scandalous game”, Sánchez broke the Italian Mario David's nose with a targeted blow, but was neither from the referee nor subsequently from the FIFA held accountable.

In 1966 he added three more to the six World Cup appearances in 1962 . However, in England - like the Chilean team as a whole - he lagged far behind what he had done four years earlier to delight his compatriots and the professional world.

Palmarès

  • Chilean football champions : 1959, 1962, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1969 (with Universidad de Chile), 1970 (with Colo Colo)
  • 86 senior internationals (record national team from Chile), 24 goals; World championship participant 1962 and 1966 (9 finals, 4 goals)
  • World Cup third and top scorer in 1962

literature

  • Friedrich Hack, Richard Kirn: VII. Soccer World Cup Chile 1962. Bertelsmann, Gütersloh 1962.
  • Dietrich Schulze-Marmeling, Hubert Dahlkamp: The history of the soccer world championships. The workshop, Göttingen 2001, ISBN 3-89533-336-0 .
  • SZ WM library: England 1966. Munich 2005, ISBN 3-86615-155-1 .
  • Matthias Voigt: Soccer World Cup 1962 Chile. AGON, Kassel 2002, ISBN 3-89784-200-9 .

References and comments

  1. ↑ Name after Hack / Kirn, p. 181, who also speak of "grotesque incidents and excesses" (p. 10)
  2. ↑ Voigt, pp. 8, 50 and 103

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personal data
SURNAME Sánchez, Leonel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Sánchez, Leonel Guillermo
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1936
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile