Raimundo Tupper Lyon (1 January 1969 – 20 July 1995) was a

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an professional

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player, best known for his years with Universidad Católica. He was a

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Club career

Born into a family of five children (four males and one female). He studied at the St. Ignatius El Bosque, and joined the lower divisions of Universidad Católica in 1980, his first coach being former national team player Alberto Fouillioux. He made his debut with the first team in 1985 against with

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in the city of El Salvador. In 1987, he won the national title with Universidad Católica. In 1989 Tupper joined

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to study Engineering, which he did not finish. That year he won the Liguilla Pre-Libertadores (Chile) against

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, which enabled Católica to play in the

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. Between 1989 and 1995 ''Mumo'' was a UC player, reaching with them the Copa Libertadores final in 1993, which they lost against Brazilian giants

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. Previously he won the 1991 Copa Chile and also Liguilla Pre-Libertadores (Chile) in 1991, 1992 and 1994, the latter scoring a great goal against Colo-Colo.

International career

In 1987, he was called up to the Chilean under-20 national team, which won fourth place in the 1987 U-20 World Cup held in Chile, in which he played with his great friend and teammate Lukas Tudor.

Death

Tupper suffered from

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, which led him to commit suicide by jumping off a balcony in the ninth floor of Hotel Centro Colón in

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on 20 July 1995 in

, being only 26 years old. Católica was supposed to play a friendly match against Deportivo Saprissa, but the game was subsequently suspended. Currently, a white cross was built in the mountains surrounding San Carlos de Apoquindo in memory of "Mumo". Subsequently, his brother Andrés Tupper, became the General Director of Universidad Católica.

Personal life

He was nicknamed ''Mumo'', a hypocoristic of . His cousin, Rodrigo Tupper, was the priest who officiated his funeral mass and he is well-known in Chile for having left the priesthood to get married. The former

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international footballer Javier González Tupper, is the son of a Raimundo's female cousin and played for Ñublense in Chile.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tupper, Raimundo 1969 births 1995 suicides 1995 deaths Chilean men's footballers Chile men's international footballers Chile men's under-20 international footballers Chilean Primera División players Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers Suicides by jumping in Costa Rica Diego Portales University alumni Men's association football fullbacks Footballers from Santiago