Miguel Ángel Neira Pincheira (born October 9, 1952) is a retired football

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 ...

from

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

, who represented his native country at the 1982 FIFA World Cup, wearing the number twenty jersey. He played club football for O'Higgins,

Unión Española Club Unión Española S.A.D.P. is a professional football club based in the Independencia neighborhood, commune of Santiago, Chile. They currently participate in the Primera División de Chile. It has a branch of women's football, and competes ...

and Club Deportivo Universidad Católica in Chile. For his native country he was capped 45 times, scoring 4 goals between 1976 and 1985, and making his debut on October 6, 1976 in a

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against Uruguay.

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Weltfussball profile
1952 births Chilean men's footballers Unión Española footballers Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers Men's association football midfielders Chile men's international footballers 1982 FIFA World Cup players 1979 Copa América players Living people O'Higgins F.C. footballers People from Concepción Province, Chile Footballers from Biobío Region {{Chile-footy-midfielder-stub