Manuel Horacio Díaz Luco (13 July 1950 – 26 May 2025), known as Horacio Díaz Luco, was a Chilean professional

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who played as a

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for clubs in Chile, Costa Rica and El Salvador.

Career

Born in

Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Regi ...

, Chile, Díaz played for

Santiago Wanderers Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers is a football club based in Valparaíso, a founding member of the Chilean Football Federation. Their home ground, Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, is in the north-west of the city. Wanderers have played their ...

in 1970. Then he moved to Costa Rica, where he played for Herediano, Limón Sprite, Cartaginés, Municipal Turrialba and Limonense, with whom he was the runner-up in the 1981 season. At the same time he was player of Limón Sprite, he performed as coach.1980 HORACIO DÍAZ LUCO
Fotos antiguas de Costa Rica on Facebook He also had a stint in El Salvador with Águila from 1975 to 1977, with whom he won the league title in 1975–76.

Death

Díaz Luco died in

Curacaví Curacaví () is a city and commune in the Melipilla Province of central Chile's Santiago Metropolitan Region. Its climate is temperate Mediterranean with a long dry season, experiencing high temperatures in summer and low temperatures in winter ...

, Chile on 26 May 2025, at the age of 74.Murió Horacio Díaz Luco

Honours

Águila *

Salvadoran Primera División Salvadorans (), also known as Salvadorians, are citizens of El Salvador, a country in Central America. Most Salvadorans live in El Salvador, although there is also a significant Salvadoran diaspora, particularly Salvadoran Americans, in the Unite ...

: , 1976–77

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