Enzo Escobar
Enzo Sergio Escobar Olivares ( born November 10, 1951) is a former Chilean football player. At club level, among other things, for Unión Española and CD Cobreloa active, he took with the national team of his native country further also at the Football World Cup 1982 in Spain part.
Career
Club career
Enzo Escobar, born on November 10, 1951, began playing football at the club CD Everton de Viña del Mar in the same city on the Pacific coast. For Everton played the defender to 1975 before joining the club Unión Española to Santiago de Chile. Unión Española had just moved into the final of the Copa Libertadores, the Argentine representative Independiente Avellaneda was beaten there, however. In the following years the team acted continue successfully. Thus, in 1977, succeeded in winning the Chilean soccer championship after in the Primera División first place with two points ahead of Everton de Viña del Mar finished. However, the ensuing participation in the Copa Libertadores went with leaving little success in the first round.
Enzo Escobar played from 1975 to 1979 with Unión Española and brought it at this time on 117 league games for the club from the Estadio Santa Laura, where he scored ten Torerfolge. In 1979 he joined the club and played from then on CD Cobreloa, a company founded only two years before the club from the city of Calama. In the jersey of CD Cobreloa Enzo Escobar had its most successful period as a football player. With the club Escobar won in the 1980 season the first championship ever for the fledgling club. You got the first place in La Liga by three points assigned to CF Universidad de Chile. This Cobreloa was allowed to start for the Copa Libertadores 1981, where it placed in the second group stage against Nacional and Peñarol Montevideo Montevideo and qualified for the final against Brazil's representative Flamengo Rio de Janeiro. There, however Cobreloa defeated by the team led by Zico and Júnior 0-2 decision after game after it had been after return game a draw. Also in the next issue of the Copa Libertadores CD Cobreloa succeeded to reach the final, where this time Peñarol Montevideo waiting for the team of coach Vicente Cantatore. After a goalless draw in Montevideo the sign for the first success of a Chilean team in the Libertadores Cup were actually optimal, but with a goal by Fernando Morena won the Uruguayan team 1-0 in the second leg of Santiago de Chile.
Thus the dream of winning the Copa Libertadores was ended for Cobreloa, in the next few years managed the club does not again to collect the final. Instead, get two more championships while Enzo Escobar's presence in Calama. In the years 1982 and 1985 Cobreloa was at the top of the Primera División. Enzo Escobar ended his footballing career in 1987 at the age of 36 years as a player of CD Cobreloa, a year before the club was champion again.
National
Between 1976 and 1982 it brought Enzo Escobar to a total of 25 missions in the Chilean national soccer team. However, a scoring not succeed here. From coach Luis Santibáñez he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1982 in Spain. Escobar did not come at the tournament are used. For the Chilean team this World Cup was disastrous. Without a single point gain would retire in the group stage in a group with Germany, Austria and Algeria.
Achievements
- Chilean Championship: 4x
- Finalists of the Copa Libertadores: 2x