José Antonio Quintanilla Escobar (29 October 1947 – 1977) was a former

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from

El Salvador El Salvador, officially the Republic of El Salvador, is a country in Central America. It is bordered on the northeast by Honduras, on the northwest by Guatemala, and on the south by the Pacific Ocean. El Salvador's capital and largest city is S ...

who played as a

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Club career

Quintanilla was a member of the 1966 and 1967 league championship winning side of Alianza. He also played for Atlético Marte and

Once Municipal Club Deportivo Once Municipal was a Salvadoran football team from Ahuachapán that last competed in the Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador, Primera División, the premier division of Football in El Salvador, in 2018. It was nicknamed "' ...

. He died in a road accident when on his way for a training at Once Municipal.

International career

Nicknamed ''el Ruso'', Quintanilla represented

at the

1968 Summer Olympics The 1968 Summer Olympics (), officially known as the Games of the XIX Olympiad () and officially branded as Mexico 1968 (), were an international multi-sport event held from 12 to 27 October 1968, in Mexico City, Mexico. These were the first Ol ...

, in 10

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matches and at the

1970 FIFA World Cup The 1970 FIFA World Cup was the 9th edition of the FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial international Association football, football championship for List of men's national association football teams, men's senior national teams. Held from 31 May to ...

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. He earned 22 caps.La historia de la clasificacion a la Copa Mundo 1970
– El Balon Cuscatleco

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1947 births 1977 deaths People from Sonsonate Department Men's association football midfielders Salvadoran men's footballers El Salvador men's international footballers Olympic footballers for El Salvador Footballers at the 1968 Summer Olympics 1970 FIFA World Cup players C.D. Atlético Marte footballers C.D. Once Municipal footballers Alianza F.C. (El Salvador) footballers Road incident deaths in El Salvador {{ElSalvador-footy-bio-stub