Eduardo Gordon | |
Office: | Ambassador of Chile to Nicaragua |
Appointer: | Augusto Pinochet |
Term Start: | 1979 |
Term End: | 1981 |
Predecessor: | Manuel Stagno |
Successor: | Alfredo Labbé Villa |
Office1: | President of the ACF |
Term Start1: | 1975 |
Term End1: | 1979 |
Predecessor1: | Francisco Fluxá |
Successor1: | Abel Alonso |
Birth Date: | 1 January 1918 |
Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
Death Place: | Santiago, Chile |
Known For: | Former president of Chilean Football Association |
Occupation: | Football leader |
Profession: | Police officer |
Relatives: | Humberto Gordon (cousin)[1] |
Eduardo Gordon Cañas (1918 − 8 November 2001) was a Chilean police officer and football leader[2] who served as president of the Chilean Football Association,[3] then called Asociación Central del Fútbol (ACF).
During his period as president of the ACF, it was created many clubs in bordering zones of Chile for geopolitical reasons, with the goal to generate a sense of belonging, especially in front of Peru and Bolivia. On that way, it was established Cobreloa (1978), Deportes Iquique (1979) or Cobresal (1979).
In 1979, after a signature forgery scandal related to the Chile U-20 team, Gordon lost the ANFP elections to Abel Alonso, and, immediately afterward, Augusto Pinochet appointed him ambassador to Nicaragua.[4]