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]
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.
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.