Casimiro Torres Saavedra (4 March 1905 – 17 November 1977) was a Chilean football player who played as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Career
He played for
Everton de Viña del Mar
Everton de Viña del Mar is a Chilean football club based in the city of Viña del Mar.
The club was founded 24 June 1909 after a group of Anglo-Chilean teenagers formed a football club and named it after the English team Everton who had re ...
from 1928 in the Asociación de Football de Valparaíso, becoming the
team captain
In team sport, captain is a title given to a member of the team. The title is frequently honorary, but in some cases the captain may have significant responsibility for strategy and teamwork while the game is in progress on the field. In eithe ...
.
At international level, he represented Chile in the
1930 FIFA World Cup
The 1930 FIFA World Cup was the inaugural FIFA World Cup, the world championship for men's national football teams. It took place in Uruguay from 13 to 30 July 1930. FIFA, football's international governing body, selected Uruguay as host nation ...
.
El ÁLBUM que faltaba. Los mundialistas chilenos de 1930.
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References
External links
at PartidosdeLaRoja
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1905 births
1977 deaths
Chilean men's footballers
Chile men's international footballers
Everton de Viña del Mar footballers
1930 FIFA World Cup players
Men's association football midfielders
Place of birth missing
Place of death missing
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