Miguel Augusto Riffo Garay (born 21 June 1981) is a Chilean former professional
football player and the current
assistant manager of
Coquimbo Unido
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.
Club career
Product of Colo-Colo youth ranks, he won eight titles in his career with that club. In the 2000s, algonside his teammates
Claudio Bravo
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,
Luis Mena and
Fernando Meneses, he also studied a technical-professional career in physical activity at the
University of the Americas.
His most successful moment with the coach
Claudio Borghi, when he also was named during the
2007 season at the
Chilean Primera División Best Eleven. Although Riffo was born with a
club foot
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, that complicated him very much, because he had to make several operations in his foot. In the
2010 season, he abandoned the club, because the
Argentine coach
Diego Cagna not considered him for the next season and in January 2011, he signed for
Santiago Morning
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.
In March 2012, he announced his retirement from
professional football
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, because Morning was relegated to the
Primera B and also Riffo was titled as
football coach at the
ANFP, the last season that he played.
International career
He also has represented the
Chile national team on several occasions. He played in one game during the
Copa América 2007
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versus Brazil in which he committed a penalty. Later in the match Riffo was injured for the tournament. Riffo played in the first four games of the
2010 FIFA World Cup qualification for Chile. Riffo started the first four games receiving a yellow card against Argentina. However, he was not recalled after the fourth match for the rest of the qualification process.
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Honours
Club
Colo-Colo
* Primera División (7): 2002–C, 2006–A, 2006–C, 2007–A, 2007–C, 2008–C, 2009–C
* Copa Sudamericana: Runner-up 2006
Individual
* Primera División de Chile Team Of The Season: 2007
References
External links
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1981 births
Living people
Chilean people of Italian descent
Footballers from Santiago
Chilean footballers
Association football defenders
Chilean Primera División players
Colo-Colo footballers
University of the Americas (Chile) alumni
Santiago Morning footballers
Chile international footballers
2007 Copa América players
Chilean football managers
Unión La Calera managers
Deportes Iquique managers
Chilean Primera División managers
People from Santiago
People from Santiago Province, Chile
People from Santiago Metropolitan Region