Personal information | |||
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Full name | Juan Agustín Toro Ramírez | ||
Date of birth | 23 July 1930 | ||
Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||
Date of death | 13 June 2007 | (aged 76)||
Place of death | Santiago, Chile | ||
Position(s) | Left-half | ||
Youth career | |||
Estrella Blanca | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
1952 | Audax Italiano | ||
1953–1964 | Palestino | ||
Coquimbo Unido | |||
International career | |||
1957 | Chile | 2 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Juan Agustín Toro Ramírez (23 July 1930 – 13 June 2007) was a Chilean football player who played as a left-half.
A defensive left-half, [1] Toro played for Club Estrella Blanca from Yarur neighbourhood, Santiago, alongside his four brothers in his early years. [2]
At professional level, he began his career with Audax Italiano in 1952. [3] The next year, he switched to Palestino and played for them from 1953 to 1964, always in the top division, [4] [5] winning the league title in the 1955 season. [6]
His last club was Coquimbo Unido. [3]
As a player of Palestino, he made two appearances for the Chile national team in the 1958 World Cup qualifiers against Bolivia (away, 3–0 loss) [7] and Argentina (home, 0–2 loss) [8] in 1957. [9] [2] [10]
Toro was the grandfather of the former footballer Hugo Bravo Toro, whom he reared, [11] and his three half-brothers: Luis, who was in the Palestino youth ranks, Jorge, a well-known Chile international [12] and Claudio Valdivia Toro, who played for Audax Italiano and Palmeiras B. [13]
He had a friendship with the former Chile international Jorge Toro. [1]
He died after being run over near his work in a hotel in Santiago. [3]
His name, and that of his teammates who won the 1955 league title with Palestino, were included in the lyrics of the club's anthem. [14]
On 6 April 1965, Toro was one of the constituent footballers of SIFUP [ es], the trade union of professionales footballers in Chile, alongside fellows such as Misael Escuti, Francisco Valdés, Hugo Lepe, among others. [15]