Aurelio Vásquez

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Aurelio Vásquez
Personal information
Full name Aurelio Enrique Vásquez Valenzuela
Date of birth (1942-11-21)21 November 1942
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Date of death 3 August 2019(2019-08-03) (aged 76)
Place of death Recoleta, Santiago, Chile
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s) Left winger
Youth career
Thunder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Deportes La Serena
Fatucen
1961–1965 Audax Italiano 85 (24)
1966 Santiago Wanderers 11 (3)
1967–1969 Santiago Morning 37 (10)
1974 31 de Octubre
1974 Ingenieros de Oruro
1975 Blooming
International career
1965 Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Aurelio Enrique Vásquez Valenzuela (21 November 1942 – 3 August 2019) was a Chilean footballer who played as a forward. Besides Chile, he played in Bolivia.

Career[edit]

A right-footed player, Vásquez used to play on the attacking left side. As a youth player, Vásquez was with Club Thunder from Quinta Normal, Santiago.[2] After, he played for both Deportes La Serena in the second division and Fatucen, a previous club to Iberia-Puente Alto,[3] in the Central Regional Championship.[4]

He spent nine seasons at the Chilean top division between 1961 and 1969 playing for three clubs: Audax Italiano (1961–65),[5][6][7][8][9] Santiago Wanderers (1966), reaching the third place in the league,[10][11][12] and Santiago Morning (1967–69).[13] He made his debut at the division in September 1961 against Unión Española wearing the number 11.[2]

As an anecdote, he played as a goalkeeper for Santiago Wanderers in a 1–2 win against Everton, the classic rival, due to the fact that Omar Aránguiz[14] injured.[2][15]

After Santiago Morning were relegated to the second division in 1969, he and Leopoldo Vallejos tried to play in Mexico thanks to Carlos Reinoso, but finally his teammate Aurelio Valenzuela went to that country. Later, he moved to Bolivia and played for 31 de Octubre (1974), Ingenieros de Oruro (1974) and Blooming (1975) in the top division.[2][4]

At international level, he was a member of the Chile national team in 1965 with the coach Francisco Hormazábal.[2]

Personal life[edit]

Vásquez was nicknamed Toscano (Tuscan) like the Argentine actor Toscanito [es] (Little Tuscan), who performed a goalkeeper in the 1948 film Pelota de trapo [es] (Rag ball) what he had seen alongside his friend, Valentín Beperet.[2]

After leaving Santiago Morning in 1969 and before moving to Bolivia, he worked as a driver in La Vega market for four years.[2]

Vásquez made his home in El Salto neighborhood [es], Recoleta commune. In his last years, he suffered the Berger's disease and hearing loss.[2]

References[edit]

  1. ^ "Aurelio Vásquez". livefutbol.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  2. ^ a b c d e f g h Chomsky (6 August 2018). "Aurelio Vásquez, el Toscano". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  3. ^ Pumarino, Felipe (14 November 2013). "Iberia de Puente Alto, un club odioso". Futuro Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  4. ^ a b "Aurelio VÁSQUEZ". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 13 November 2023.
  5. ^ "AUDAX ITALIANO La Florida". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 2 April 2021. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  6. ^ "AUDAX, EL MEJOR" (PDF). Revista Estadio (in Spanish). 1067. Santiago, Chile: 8–9. 4 November 1963. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  7. ^ "FUTBOLERÍAS: Propondrán modificar sistema de elección de los árbitros" (PDF). La Nación (in Spanish). 16964. Santiago, Chile: 17. 16 May 1964. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  8. ^ "Falleció Leonardo Salas, exfutbolista chileno y leyenda del Alianza F.C." elsalvador.com (in Spanish). 31 March 2020. Retrieved 14 November 2023. Delantera del Audax Italiano 1964, desde la Izq.: Luis Vargas, Ismael Pérez, Abraham Zamora, Leonardo Salas y Aurelio Vásquez.
  9. ^ Arévalo Contreras, Víctor (18 January 2016). "Deportistas famosos de la época". Los Inolvidables Años '60 (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  10. ^ "Campeonato Nacional 1966 Primera División". eseaene.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  11. ^ "Wanderers en Campeonato de Primera División 1966". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  12. ^ Marambio Torres, Luis (June 2010). "5. El Mundial de Juanito y los años del Ruiseñor". Valparaíso y Wanderers: Cosmopolitas y pioneros (PDF) (in Spanish). Valparaíso, Chile: Valparaiso University. p. 126. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  13. ^ "Club de Deportes SANTIAGO MORNING". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 1 December 2015. Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  14. ^ "Omar ARÁNGUIZ". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 November 2023.
  15. ^ "Historias de 100 años de Clásicos Porteños - 1966: WANDERERS Y LA HAZAÑA DE JUGAR SIN ARQUERO". S. Wanderers Patrimonial (in Spanish). 13 October 2016. Retrieved 14 November 2023.

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