Mario Ortiz (Chilean footballer) explained

Mario Ortiz
Fullname:Mario Sergio Ortiz Vallejos
Birth Date:28 January 1936
Birth Place:Santiago, Chile
Death Place:Santiago, Chile
Position:Midfielder
Years1:1949–1953
Clubs1:Green Cross
Years2:1954–1957
Clubs2:Palestino
Years3:1958–1965
Clubs3:Colo-Colo
Years4:1966
Clubs4:Luis Cruz Martínez
Nationalteam1:Chile

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

Career

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

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.

Personal life

On 6 April 1965, Ortiz was one of the constituent footballers of, the trade union of professionales footballers in Chile, alongside fellows such as Efraín Santander, Francisco Valdés, Hugo Lepe, among others.[2]

He died in 2006.

Notes and References

  1. Web site: El Mercurio. Falleció Mario Ortiz, ex mundialista chileno del '62. 2006-05-02. 2009-03-31.
  2. Web site: Constitución Sifup . sifup.cl . 14 September 2022 . es.