Mario Sergio Ortiz Vallejos (28 January 1936 – 2 May 2006 in

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) was a

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Career

Ortiz played club football for

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and

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, where he won league titles in 1960 and 1963. He played for the

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in the

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, where he played as a midfielder, as Chile achieved a third-place finish.

Personal life

On 6 April 1965, Ortiz was one of the constituent footballers of , the

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of professionales footballers in Chile, alongside fellows such as

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, among others. He died in 2006.

References

1936 births 2006 deaths Footballers from Santiago Chilean men's footballers Chile men's international footballers 1962 FIFA World Cup players Club de Deportes Green Cross footballers Club Deportivo Palestino footballers Colo-Colo footballers Club Deportivo Luis Cruz Martínez footballers Chilean Primera División players Men's association football midfielders 20th-century Chilean people {{Chile-footy-midfielder-stub