Raúl Isaac González San Vicente (born 2 December 1955) is a Chilean former

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Career

González played for clubs in both Chile and South Africa. In Chile, he 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 ...

and

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. In South Africa, he played for

Moroka Swallows Moroka Swallows Football Club (often referred to as Swallows or The Birds) is a South African professional football club based in Soweto, Johannesburg, in the Gauteng province. Founded in 1947, Swallows are one of the original two Soweto clubs ...

Bush Bucks Bush Bucks is a South African soccer club. The club was founded in 1957 and originally based in Mthatha in the Eastern Cape. In 2001, the team moved to East London. It was nicknamed ''Imbabala (The Bucks)''. History The club was formed by a fo ...

and

AmaZulu Zulu people (; ) are a native people of Southern Africa of the Nguni people, Nguni. The Zulu people are the largest Ethnic groups in South Africa, ethnic group and nation in South Africa, living mainly in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. They o ...

between 1984 and 1987. His last club was Moroka Swallows in 1987. At international level, he represented Chile U20 in the 1975 South American Championship. At senior level, he played in four matches for the Chile national team in 1979. He was also part of Chile's squad for the

1979 Copa América The 1979 edition of the Copa América association football tournament was played between 18 July and 12 December. It was not held in a particular country, all matches were played on a home and away basis. Defending champions Peru were given a bye ...

tournament, where Chile was the runner-up. In 1999, he worked as the assistant coach of Mario Tuane, who promoted his signing with Moroka Swallows in 1983, in the South African club

African Wanderers African Wanderers is a South African professional football club, based in the Chatsworth township, a suburb of Durban Durban ( ; , from meaning "bay, lagoon") is the third-most populous city in South Africa, after Johannesburg and Cape To ...

Personal life

He is the father of both the former Chile international footballer

Mark González Mark Dennis González Hoffmann (born 10 July 1984) is a Chileans, Chilean former professional association football, footballer who played as a midfielder. He played top flight football in Chile, Russia, Spain, Brazil and England. He was descr ...

and the actor and football agent Raúl Hoffmann. His wife, Lorena Hoffmann, is the niece of the former Chile international footballers Carlos Hoffmann and , as well as the cousin of the also former footballers Reinaldo and Alejandro, sons of Reynaldo.

Honours

Santiago Wanderers * Segunda División de Chile (1):

1978 Events January * January 1 – Air India Flight 855, a Boeing 747 passenger jet, crashes off the coast of Bombay, killing 213. * January 5 – Bülent Ecevit, of Republican People's Party, CHP, forms the new government of Turkey (42nd ...

Moroka Swallows * Mainstay Cup (1):

1983 1983 saw both the official beginning of the Internet and the first mobile cellular telephone call. Events January * January 1 – The migration of the ARPANET to TCP/IP is officially completed (this is considered to be the beginning of the ...

Bush Bucks *

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(1):

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a n ...

Chile * (1):

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Raúl González
at MemoriaWanderers * 1955 births Living people Footballers from Valparaíso Chilean men's footballers Chilean expatriate men's footballers Chile men's international footballers Chile men's under-20 international footballers Santiago Wanderers footballers Club Deportivo Palestino footballers Moroka Swallows F.C. players Bush Bucks F.C. players AmaZulu F.C. players Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Chilean expatriate sportspeople in South Africa Expatriate men's soccer players in South Africa Men's association football defenders Chilean football managers Chilean expatriate football managers Expatriate soccer managers in South Africa 20th-century Chilean sportsmen {{Chile-footy-defender-stub