Jorge Toro
Appearance
![]() Toro with Chile in 1962 | |||||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Jorge Luis Toro Sánchez | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 10 January 1939 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||||||||||||||||
Date of death | 16 February 2024 | (aged 85)||||||||||||||||
Place of death | El Quisco, Chile | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
1959–1962 | Colo-Colo | 61 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
1962–1963 | Sampdoria | 16 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
1963–1969 | Modena | 154 | (19) | ||||||||||||||
1969–1970 | → Hellas Verona (loan) | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
1971 | Colo-Colo | 8 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1972–1973 | Unión Española | 38 | (20) | ||||||||||||||
1974 | Deportes Concepción | 14 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
1975 | Audax Italiano | 12 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
1976 | Deportes La Serena | 7 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
Total | 317 | (69) | |||||||||||||||
International career | |||||||||||||||||
1959–1973 | Chile | 29 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
1978 | Unión La Calera | ||||||||||||||||
1979 | Colchagua | ||||||||||||||||
1981 | Santiago Wanderers | ||||||||||||||||
1981 | San Antonio Unido | ||||||||||||||||
1982–1983 | Deportes Iquique | ||||||||||||||||
1984 | Unión La Calera | ||||||||||||||||
1985–1986 | Cobreloa | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Jorge Luis Toro Sánchez (10 January 1939 – 16 February 2024) was a Chilean footballer who played as a midfielder. He represented his native country at the 1962 FIFA World Cup in Chile. He scored the second goal in Chile's 2-0 win over Italy at that tournament, in a match that is remembered as the Battle of Santiago. Toro died in El Quisco on 16 February 2024, at the age of 85.[1]
Honours
[edit]Colo-Colo
- Chilean Primera División: 1960
Unión Española
- Primera División: 1973
Chile
- FIFA World Cup third place: 1962
References
[edit]- ^ "Fallece Jorge Toro, leyenda del fútbol chileno y parte del equipo del Mundial de 1962". Emol. 16 February 2024. Retrieved 17 February 2024.
External links
[edit]- Jorge Toro at WorldFootball.net
- Jorge Toro at PartidosdeLaRoja (in Spanish)
Categories:
- 1939 births
- 2024 deaths
- Footballers from Santiago
- Chilean men's footballers
- Men's association football midfielders
- Chile men's international footballers
- 1962 FIFA World Cup players
- Chilean Primera División players
- Primera B de Chile players
- Serie A players
- Serie B players
- Colo-Colo footballers
- Unión Española footballers
- Deportes Concepción (Chile) footballers
- Audax Italiano footballers
- Deportes La Serena footballers
- UC Sampdoria players
- Modena FC 2018 players
- Hellas Verona FC players
- Chilean football managers
- Chilean Primera División managers
- Primera B de Chile managers
- Unión La Calera managers
- CD Colchagua managers
- Santiago Wanderers managers
- Deportes Iquique managers
- C.D. Cobreloa managers
- Chilean expatriate men's footballers
- Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Expatriate men's footballers in Italy
- Chilean football biography stubs