Telésforo Báez
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Telésforo Segundo Báez Astudillo | ||
| Date of birth | 16 August 1897 | ||
| Place of birth | Valparaíso, Chile | ||
| Date of death | 3 March 1946 (aged 48) | ||
| Place of death | Valparaíso, Chile | ||
| Position(s) | Forward | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| –1915 | Santiago Wanderers II | ||
| 1915–1916 | Limache National | ||
| 1916–1920 | Santiago Wanderers | ||
| International career | |||
| 1919 | Chile | 2 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Telésforo Segundo Báez Astudillo (16 August 1897 – 3 March 1946) was a Chilean footballer who played as a forward.
Career
[edit]Born in Valparaíso, Báez stood out as a player of Santiago Wanderers in the 1910s.[1][2]
As a player of the second team, Santiago Wanderers II, he was suspended by both the club and the football league of Valparaíso in 1916 as he refused to play an official match against club La Cruz II in October 1915, switching to club Limache National with no licence. He went on playing for Limache National with no licence in 1916 despite belonging to Santiago Wanderers, he was finally suspended for three years.[3]
At international level, Báez made two appearances for the Chile national team in the 1919 South American Championship. He entered in the 0–6 loss against Brazil and the 0–2 loss against Uruguay.[3][4]
Controversy about Ángel Báez
[edit]Telésforo is frequently and wrongly listed in the Chile squad at the 1916 South American Championship and, consequently, named as the scorer of the first goal for Chile in the history of the South American Championship/Copa América. Ángel Báez, a player from club Thunder from Coquimbo,[5] was really the player in the 1916 squad. Telésforo was probably confused with Ángel by the journals of Valparaíso at the time, according to the research of ASIFUCH, the association of Chilean football researchers. In addition, Telésforo was suspended for three years between 1916 and 1918.[3][6][7]
Personal life
[edit]His younger brother, Guillermo, was also a footballer who played for Santiago Wanderers, Unión Española, among others clubs.[8]
References
[edit]- ^ "Telésforo BÁEZ". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "Aniversario 129: Homenajes a próceres del club". corporacionwanderers.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ a b c Núñez Mardones, Sebastián (20 September 2021). "De Coquimbo a Buenos Aires, el primer gol de Chile en Copa América". ASIFUCH (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ Aguilera, Nicolás (24 December 2020). "La selección chilena de 1919". ASIFUCH (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "Ángel Báez". livefutbol.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ Rivera Valencia, Carlos (21 September 2021). "De Coquimbo a Buenos Aires, el primer gol de Chile en Copa América". www.diarioeldia.cl (in Spanish). Diario El Día. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "Telésforo Báez ¿autor el primer gol chileno en Copa América?". Por la Pelota (in Spanish). 9 October 2023. Retrieved 25 January 2024.
- ^ "Guillermo BÁEZ". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2024.
External links
[edit]- Telésforo Báez at MemoriaWanderers.cl (in Spanish)
