Luis Eyzaguirre

Luis Armando Eyzaguirre Silva ( born June 22, 1939 in Santiago ) is a retired Chilean football player who was third in the FIFA World Cup 1962 with the national team of his native country and in 1966 took part in another World Cup.

Career

Luis Eyzaguirre began playing football in 1953 in CF Universidad de Chile. At fourteen he made his debut in the first team of the club. From then on, the defender part of the famous Ballet Azul by Universidad de Chile, the six times won the national championship 1959-1969. Major players of this team were next Eyzaguirre also, for example, Leonel Sánchez, Jaime Ramírez and Rubén Marcos. His name got the Ballet Azul ajar, to the team of CD Los Millonarios the early 1950s, which had the same nickname, after a trip to Europe, as well as Millonarios, to the Universidad de Chile, among other Inter Milan, at that time Italian champion and winner in European Cup champion, defeated. Eyzaguirre played from 1953 to 1966 for thirteen years 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 to. With the then second division succeeded Eyzaguirre 1967, the first for the club jump into the Chilean football House of Lords. Huachipato and Eyzaguirre were established themselves in La Liga and in 1974 the club became the first and so far only time Chilean champion. At this time stayed Eyzaguirre no longer in Talcahuano, he moved in 1972 unterklassigen Club CD Ferroviarios, where he end his career the following year.

Luis Eyzaguirre played 1959-1966 39 caps for the Chilean national soccer team. With her he participated in the Football World Cup 1962 in part in their own country, where the Chilean team positively surprised and penetrated to the semifinals, but where you failed at eventual champions Brazil. Luis Eyzaguirre was employed here for all six games of his team, a goal he achieved not, as in all his internationals. Four years later at the World Cup in England in 1966 he was again in the squad of Chileans. This time was no surprise to be achieved and the Chilean team dropped out after the first round as a group Last behind the Soviet Union, North Korea and Italy. After the World tournament in 1966, in which Luis Eyzaguirre only in a game that was 0-2 against Italy, used in Sunderland, the national time Eyzaguirres ended after 39 missions.