Luis Eyzaguirre
Luis Eyzaguirre | ||
Personnel | ||
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Surname | Luis Armando Eyzaguirre Silva | |
birthday | June 22, 1939 | |
place of birth | Santiago de Chile , Chile | |
size | 168 cm | |
position | Defender | |
Men's | ||
Years | station | Games (goals) 1 |
1958-1967 | CF Universidad de Chile | 222 (3) |
1968-1971 | CD Huachipato | |
1972-1973 | CD Ferroviarios | |
National team | ||
Years | selection | Games (goals) |
1959-1966 | Chile | 54 (0) |
1 Only league games are given. |
Luis Armando Eyzaguirre Silva (born June 22, 1939 in Santiago de Chile ) is a former Chilean soccer player who was third in the 1962 World Cup with the national team of his home country and took part in another World Cup in 1966 .
Career
Luis Eyzaguirre began playing football in 1953 at CF Universidad de Chile . At fourteen he made his debut in the club's first team. From then on, the defender was part of the famous Ballet Azul of Universidad de Chile, which won the national championship six times between 1959 and 1969. Important players of this team were besides Eyzaguirre also for example Leonel Sánchez , Jaime Ramírez and Rubén Marcos . The Ballet Azul got its name, based on the team of CD Los Millonarios of the early 1950s, which had the same nickname, after a trip to Europe, like Millonarios, at the Universidad de Chile, including Inter Milan , then Italian champion and winner of the European Champion Clubs' Cup , defeated. Eyzaguirre played for thirteen years from 1953 to 1966 for the club from the capital Santiago, where he was born in 1939. In 1966 he left Universidad de Chile and joined CD Huachipato from Talcahuano . With the then second division side, Eyzaguirre succeeded in 1967 for the club's first leap into the Chilean football club. Huachipato and Eyzaguirre were able to establish themselves in the Primera División and in 1974 the club became the first and so far only Chilean champions. At this time Eyzaguirre was no longer in Talcahuano, he moved in 1972 to the lower class club CD Ferroviarios, where he let his career fade in the following year.
Luis Eyzaguirre played 54 international matches for the Chilean national football team between 1959 and 1966 . With her he took part in the 1962 World Cup in his own country, where the Chilean team surprised positively and advanced to the semi-finals, where they failed, however, at the later world champions Brazil . Luis Eyzaguirre was used in all six games of his team, a goal he failed as in all of his international matches. Four years later, at the 1966 World Cup in England , he was again in the Chilean squad . This time no surprise could be achieved and the Chilean team was eliminated after the preliminary round as bottom of the group behind the Soviet Union , North Korea and Italy . After the world tournament in 1966, in which Luis Eyzaguirre was used only in one game, the 0-2 against Italy in Sunderland , the national team time Eyzaguirre ended after 54 appearances.
Web links
- Luis Eyzaguirre in the database of weltfussball.de
- Luis Eyzaguirre in the database of FIFA (English)
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Eyzaguirre, Luis |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Eyzaguirre Silva, Luis Armando (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Chilean soccer player |
DATE OF BIRTH | June 22, 1939 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Santiago de Chile |