Mario Soto

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Mario Soto
Personnel
Surname Mario Soto Benavides
birthday July 10, 1950
place of birth Santiago de Chile ,  Chile
size 177 cm
position defense
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1969-1973 CD Magallanes 85 0(0)
1974-1977 Unión Española 105 0(2)
1977-1988 Palmeiras São Paulo
1978-1985 CD Cobreloa 235 (11)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1975-1985 Chile 47 0(1)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2004-2005 Unión San Felipe
2005-2007 Santiago Wanderers
2010 CD Cobreloa
2012 Arturo Fernández Vial
1 Only league games are given.

Mario Soto Benavides (born July 10, 1950 in Santiago de Chile ) is a former Chilean football player and current coach. As a player, he reached the final of the Copa Libertadores twice with CD Cobreloa and once with Unión Española , but lost each time. He also took part in the 1982 World Cup in Spain with the national team of his home country .

Soto later became a coach and worked in this role for Unión San Felipe , the Santiago Wanderers and his old club CD Cobreloa, among others .

Player career

Club career

Mario Soto, born in 1950 in Santiago , Chile's capital , began playing football at CD Magallanes club . Today's second division team was an integral part of Chilean football's top division at the time. Soto signed his first contract with the men's team at Magallanes in 1969 and stayed with the club until 1973. During this time, the defender played a total of 85 league games in the jersey of the four-time Chilean football champions, but he was denied a goal.

For the 1974 season, Mario Soto changed clubs and joined Unión Española . With Unión Española, Soto twice won the championship of the thin country on the South American Pacific coast. In the Primera División 1975 they finished first in the table with two points ahead of Deportes Concepción at the end of all game days . Two years later, in 1977, it was once again at the top of the table of La Liga , this time by a margin of two points at Everton de Viña del Mar . In addition, the 1975 Copa Libertadores made it into the final. In the first group phase, two CD Huachipato and the two Bolivian representatives The Strongest La Paz and Club Jorge Wilstermann were relegated to the places in the group, in the second group phase the same was achieved with Universitario de Deportes from Peru and LDU Quito from Ecuador . Unión Española was thus qualified for the first time in the club's history for the final of the most important football competition for club teams in South America and met the Argentinian series winner Independiente Avellaneda in this . Unión Española won the first leg in Santiago de Chile with a goal from Sergio Ahumada three minutes before the end of the game 1-0, but had to admit defeat in the second leg in Avellaneda 1: 3, so a playoff had to decide the winner. Independiente won it 2-0 and won the Copa Libertadores for the fourth time in a row.

Mario Soto left Unión Española in 1977 and moved to Brazil to Palmeiras São Paulo . However, he stayed there only for a year and returned to Chile in 1978.

There Mario Soto joined the CD Cobreloa club, which had only been founded a year earlier, and where he spent the rest of his career. With Cobreloa, Soto won the Chilean championship three times in 1980, 1982 and 1985. Coach Vicente Cantatore's team was also very successful on the international stage . In the Copa Libertadores 1981 , Cobreloa’s first participation in this competition, they defeated Universidad de Chile and the two Peruvian representatives Sporting Cristal and Atlético Torino in the first group stage in Group 5 . The second group stage was also successful when the underdog from Calama qualified for the final in front of the two Uruguayan teams from Nacional Montevideo and CA Peñarol . There they met Flamengo Rio de Janeiro from Brazil and had to admit defeat to the team around Zico and Júnior in the first leg at the Maracanã Stadium with 1: 2. After a 1-0 win in the return leg in Santiago de Chile, a play-off was necessary to determine the winner, in which Flamengo finally prevailed 2-0 with two Zico goals. A year later Cobreloa was a second time in the final of the Copa Libertadores, this time the opponent was CA Peñarol from Uruguay . After a goalless draw in the first leg in Montevideo, Cobreloa lost 1-0 in the second leg with a goal in the penultimate minute and also lost the second Copa Libertadores final in a row. To date, the club from the Chilean province has not been able to qualify for a final in this competition.

Mario Soto stayed with CD Cobreloa until 1985. In total, he completed 235 league games for the club, in which he scored eleven goals.

National team

Between 1975 and 1985 Mario Soto made a total of 47 appearances in the Chilean national football team . He got a hit. By national coach Luis Santibáñez he was appointed to the South American squad for the 1982 World Cup in Spain. Escobar was used in the tournament in two of the three games of his team, with a use only came about by substitution. 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 .

Coaching career

After the end of his active career as a football player, Mario Soto became a coach, but has not yet been able to build on the successes of the old days as an active player. He had his first coaching position from 2004 to 2005 at Unión San Felipe , after which he worked for the Santiago Wanderers until 2007 . In 2010 Soto coached his old club CD Cobreloa for a short time, but was released after a few weeks. The former defender had his last job as a football coach in 2012 for a short time at the lower-class club CD Arturo Fernández Vial in Concepción .

successes

1975 and 1977 with Unión Española
1980, 1982 and 1985 with CD Cobreloa
1975 with Unión Española
1981 and 1982 with CD Cobreloa
  • Chilean Footballer of the Year : 1 ×
1982 as a CD Cobreloa player

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personal data
SURNAME Soto, Mario
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Soto Benavides, Mario (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Chilean soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH July 10, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH Santiago de Chile , Chile