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Mario Ortiz (Chilean footballer)

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Mario Ortiz
Personal information
Full name Mario Sergio Ortiz Vallejos
Date of birth (1936-01-28)January 28, 1936
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Date of death May 2, 2006(2006-05-02) (aged 70)
Place of death Santiago, Chile
Position(s) Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1949–1953 Green Cross
1954–1957 Palestino
1958–1965 Colo-Colo
1966 Luis Cruz Martínez
International career
Chile
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Chile
FIFA World Cup
Third place 1962 Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mario Sergio Ortiz Vallejos (28 January 1936 – 2 May 2006 in Santiago, Chile) was a Chilean footballer who played as a midfielder.[1]

Career

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Ortiz played club football for Palestino and Colo-Colo, where he won league titles in 1960 and 1963.[1]

He played for the Chile national football team in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where he played as a midfielder, as Chile achieved a third-place finish.[2]

Personal life

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On 6 April 1965, Ortiz was one of the constituent footballers of SIFUP [es], the trade union of professionales footballers in Chile, alongside fellows such as Efraín Santander, Francisco Valdés, Hugo Lepe, among others.[3]

He died in 2006.[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c "Falleció Mario Ortiz, ex mundialista chileno del '62". El Mercurio. 2006-05-02. Retrieved 2009-03-31.
  2. ^ Mario OrtizFIFA competition record (archived)
  3. ^ "Constitución Sifup". sifup.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.