Miguel Riffo
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Miguel Augusto Riffo Garay | ||
Date of birth | 21 June 1981 | ||
Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||
Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Defender | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Deportes Iquique (manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
1992–2001 | Colo-Colo | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2001–2010 | Colo-Colo | 212 | (10) |
2011 | Santiago Morning | 30 | (4) |
International career‡ | |||
2007 | Chile | 9 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2013–2015 | Colo-Colo (assistant) | ||
2015 | Unión La Calera | ||
2018– | Deportes Iquique | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 November 2015 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 August 2007 |
Miguel Augusto Riffo Garay (born 21 June 1981) is a Chilean retired footballer and current manager of Deportes Iquique.
Club career
Product of Colo-Colo youth ranks, he won eight titles in his career with that club, being his most successful moment with the coach Claudio Borghi, when he also was named during the 2007 season at the Chilean Primera División Best Eleven. Although Riffo was born with a club foot, that complicated him very much, because he had to make several operations in his foot.[1] In the 2010 season, he abandoned the club, because the Argentine coach Diego Cagna not considered him for the next season and in January 2011, he signed for Santiago Morning.
In March 2012, he announced his retirement from professional football, because Morning was relegated to the Primera B and also Riffo was titled as football coach at the ANFP, the last season that he played.
International career
He also has represented the Chilean national team on several occasions. He played in one game during the Copa América 2007 versus Brazil in which he committed a penalty. Later in the match Riffo was injured for the tournament. Riffo played in the first four games of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification for Chile. Riffo started the first four games receiving a yellow card against Argentina. However, he was not recalled after the fourth match for the rest of the qualification process.[2]
Honours
Club
- Colo-Colo
- Copa Sudamericana (1): Runner-up 2006
Individual
References
External links
- Riffo's Profile at DaleAlbo.cl at the Wayback Machine (archived December 12, 2009)
- Miguel Riffo at National-Football-Teams.com
- 1981 births
- Living people
- Chilean people of Italian descent
- Sportspeople from Santiago
- Chilean footballers
- Association football defenders
- Chilean Primera División players
- Colo-Colo footballers
- Santiago Morning footballers
- Chile international footballers
- 2007 Copa América players
- Unión La Calera managers
- Chilean football managers