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Efraín Santander

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Efraín Santander
Personal information
Full name Segundo Efraín Santander Cancino
Date of birth (1941-12-07) 7 December 1941 (age 82)
Place of birth Los Andes, Chile
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Colo-Colo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1970 Colo-Colo
1961Deportes La Serena (loan)
1972 Excélsior
1972–1973 Municipal
1973–1974 Juventud Católica
1974 Municipal
International career
1958–1960 Chile U20
1968 Chile 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Segundo Efraín Santander Cancino (born 7 December 1941), known as Efraín Santander, is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a goalkeeper for clubs in Chile and Guatemala.

Club career

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Santander came to Colo-Colo youth system from La Calera.[1] At senior level, he won two national league titles in 1969[2] and 1970,[3] becoming one of the few goalkeepers from the youth system who have won any league.[4] In addition, he won the friendly 1969 Torneo Internacional de Chile [es], where competed Dynamo Moscow, Corinthians, among other clubs.[5] In Chile, he also had a brief step on loan at Deportes La Serena in 1961.[6]

In 1972 he moved to Guatemala and joined Municipal. After a step with Juventud Católica, he returned to Municipal and won the 1974 Liga Nacional de Guatemala [es].[7]

International career

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Since he was 16 years old, he was a Chile youth international footballer.[1] He represented Chile U20 in the 1958 South American Championship alongside players such as José Sulantay, Jorge Venegas, Alberto Fouillioux, among others.[8] In 1960 he took part of the Chile U20 squad with Hernán Carrasco as coach.[9]

At senior level, he made an appearance for the Chile national team in the match against Peru on 21 August 1968.[1]

Personal life

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Santander was nicknamed El Negro (The Black One).[10]

On 6 April 1965, Santander was one of the constituent footballers of SIFUP [es], the trade union of professionales footballers in Chile, alongside fellows such as Misael Escuti, Francisco Valdés, Hugo Lepe, among others.[11]

Honours

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Colo-Colo

Municipal

Chile[1]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Efraín Santander". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  2. ^ "TORNEO NACIONAL 1963". Historia de Colo-Colo (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  3. ^ "ESPECIAL Colo-Colo campeón 1970; de atrás pica el indio". Somos Chile (in Spanish). 23 May 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  4. ^ Salinas, Sebastián (24 August 2010). "Bryan Rabello: Promesa para romper la falta de tiraje | Guioteca.com". Guioteca.com (in Spanish). El Mercurio. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  5. ^ POSTER DEL CAMPEON DE VERANO 1969 Colo-Colo Football Club on Facebook
  6. ^ "ESPECIAL Colo-Colo campeón 1960". Somos Chile (in Spanish). 9 May 2017. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  7. ^ "Arqueros chilenos que ganaron un título en el extranjero" (in Spanish). AS Chile. 29 May 2016. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  8. ^ Salviat, Julio (20 July 2023). "José Sulantay, el juvenil que me deslumbró en mi adolescencia". Diario El Ágora (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 January 2024.
  9. ^ Parker, Matías (13 August 2018). "Rosauro Parra, el Marciano" (in Spanish). La Tercera. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  10. ^ ""A los 13 minutos de mi primer clásico me llevaban 3 goles"". LUN (in Spanish). Las Últimas Noticias. Retrieved 6 September 2022.
  11. ^ "Constitución Sifup". sifup.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 September 2022.
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