Misael Escuti Rovira (20 December 1926 – 3 January 2005) was a Chilean footballer of Italian ancestry, who played as a goalkeeper. He is remembered for being the key player with the Chile national team that reached third place in the 1962 FIFA World Cup tournament.[1]
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Full name | Misael Escuti Rovira | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 20 December 1926 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Copiapó, Chile | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 3 January 2005 | (aged 78)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | Santiago, Chile | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
1944–1945 | Santiago National | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1945 | Badminton | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1946–1964 | Colo-Colo | 417 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 420 | (0) | |||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1948–1962 | Chile | 40 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Personal life
editOn 6 April 1965, Escuti was one of the constituent footballers of SIFUP [es], the trade union of professionales footballers in Chile, alongside fellows such as Efraín Santander, Francisco Valdés, Hugo Lepe, among others.[2]
References
edit- ^ "Misael Escuti". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
- ^ "Constitución Sifup". sifup.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
External links
edit- Misael Escuti – FIFA competition record (archived)