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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at PartidosdeLaRoja * * 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 {{Chile-footy-midfielder-stub