Mario Ortiz (Chilean footballer)

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Mario Sergio Ortiz Vallejos (28 January 1936 – 2 May 2006 in Santiago, Chile) was a Chilean footballer who played as a midfielder.

Career

Ortiz played club football for Palestino and Colo-Colo, where he won league titles in 1960 and 1963. He played for the Chile national football team in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, where he played as a midfielder, as Chile achieved a third-place finish.

Personal life

On 6 April 1965, Ortiz was one of the constituent footballers of Sindicato de Futbolistas Profesionales de Chile, the trade union of professionales footballers in Chile, alongside fellows such as Efraín Santander, Francisco Valdés, Hugo Lepe, among others. He died in 2006.

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