Antonio Arias (footballer)
Antonio Arias Mujica ( born October 9, 1944 in Santiago ) is a retired Chilean football player. At club level, most of the time for Unión Española active, he also took part in the Football World Cup 1974 in Germany with the national team of his native country.
Career
Club career
Antonio Arias, who was born on 9 October 1944 in the Chilean capital Santiago, started playing football at the resident club CD Magallanes, once in the thirties first Chilean football champions. In Magallanes, far from among the top clubs in the Primera División disappeared, Arias acted for four years from 1965 to 1968 as a defensive player who signed him before the top club Unión Española.
In Unión Española Antonio Arias eventually played from 1969 to 1979 in 300 league games, in which the defender get five Torerfolge. Here, in three years, succeeded in winning the Chilean soccer championship, the first time in 1973. This year they finished at the end of all game day in first place in the Primera División with eight points ahead of CSD Colo -Colo. A second championship celebrated in the 1975 season with Antonio Arias Unión Española, as you positioned itself in the table to the end of season two points ahead of Deportes Concepción in the first place. 1975 was generally the most successful year in the career of Antonio Arias and also in the club's history of Unión Española. The team coached by Luis Santibáñez, were among the players such as Sergio Ahumada, Mario Soto and Leonardo Véliz, reached the final of the Copa Libertadores after they prevail in the second group phase before Universitario de Deportes of Peru and Liga de Quito from Ecuador could. In the subsequent final they met the Argentine club Independiente Avellaneda, who was promoted in previous years to a kind of series champion in the Copa Libertadores. And against Independiente had to Antonio Arias with Unión Española then ultimately defeat plug, even if it was extremely tight. After return game was a draw, making a play for the Copa Libertadores winners in 1975 had to decide. This playoff Independiente won 2-0 then.
After reaching the final of the Copa Libertadores in 1975 went with the services of Unión Española slightly downhill. As a result, you could only win once the Chilean championship, namely 1977. During that season they finished in the end with two points ahead of CD Everton de Viña del Mar on one rank in the Primera División. By 2005 should be the last championship for Unión Española. Antonio Arias himself ended his playing career after the 1979 season in the jersey of Unión Española, having previously been in 300 league games for the club on the pitch.
National
Between 1968 and 1976 it brought Antonio Arias on a total of 30 missions in the Chilean national soccer team. Here, no goal is scored he succeeded. From coach Luis Alamos he was appointed to the South American squad for the World Cup 1974 in Germany. Arias came at the tournament in all three games over the full time employed and was an integral part of the Chilean defense in this tournament. The team ended with two draws and a defeat in the group stage third place in Group 1 behind the Federal Republic of Germany and the German Democratic Republic and ahead of Australia and retired.
Achievements
- Chilean Championship: 3x
- Finals of the Copa Libertadores: 1x