Roberto Luco (footballer, born 1907)

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Roberto Luco
Luco with Boca Juniors in 1934
Personal information
Full name Roberto Santiago Luco Belmar
Date of birth (1907-01-09)9 January 1907
Place of birth Antofagasta, Chile
Date of death 16 August 1974(1974-08-16) (aged 67)
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1930–1931 Bádminton
1932–1933 Colo-Colo
1934–1936 Boca Juniors 9 (0)
1936–1939 Colo-Colo
International career
1933 Combinado del Pacífico
1939 Chile 3 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Roberto Santiago Luco Belmar (9 January 1907 – 16 August 1974) was a Chilean footballer.

Club career[edit]

Born in Antofagasta, Luco began his career playing for the amateur team of Curicó at the beginning of the 1930s and then he played for Badminton and Colo-Colo[1] before moving to Argentina and joining Boca Juniors in 1934. The deal was for thirty four thousand Chilean pesos, a lot of money at these time, becoming the first Chilean to play for that club and the second one to play in Argentina after Iván Mayo, who played for Vélez Sarsfield. Along with Boca Juniors, he won two local championships and then he returned Colo-Colo, winning the first professional title for the club in 1937.[2]

International career[edit]

In 1933, he took part of the Combinado del Pacífico (Pacific Ocean Team), a squad made up for both Chilean and Peruvian players,[3] that played friendly matches in both America and Europe[1]

For the Chile national football team, he played in three matches in 1939.[4] He was also part of Chile's squad for the 1939 South American Championship.[5]

Honours[edit]

Boca Juniors
Colo-Colo

References[edit]

  1. ^ a b @MMF_Chile (13 August 2020). "Roberto Luco, otro jugador que merece ser recordado y jamás olvidado en "MMF No te olvida"" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 July 2022 – via Twitter.
  2. ^ "Waldo Ponce: siguiendo la huella que inició Luco". www.larompieron.cl (in Spanish). 6 July 2009. Archived from the original on 18 December 2011. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  3. ^ ""Combinado del Pacífico": el día que Chile y Perú jugaron juntos y formaron una sola Selección". BioBioChile (in Spanish). Radio Bío-Bío. 12 October 2018. Retrieved 30 July 2022.
  4. ^ "Roberto Luco". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 25 June 2021.
  5. ^ "South American Championship 1939". RSSSF. Retrieved 25 June 2021.

External links[edit]

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