Alberto Armijo
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| Full name | Alberto Armijo Pujol | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 27 September 1926 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Nicoya, Costa Rica | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 9 August 2021 (aged 94) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | San Jose, Costa Rica | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1937–1939 | Saprissa | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1944 | Orión | ||||||||||||||||
| 1945–1951 | UCR | ||||||||||||||||
| Gimnástica Española | |||||||||||||||||
| La Libertad | |||||||||||||||||
| –1962 | Cartaginés | ||||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 1948–1960 | Costa Rica | 16 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 28 April 2015 | |||||||||||||||||
Alberto Armijo Pujol[a] (27 September 1926 – 9 August 2021) was a Costa Rican football striker.
Club career
[edit]Nicknamed El Gallego, Armijo was born in Nicoya, Guanacaste Province, but moved to San José when he was young and played in the junior leagues with Saprissa.[1] He made his senior debut for Orión and was the league's top goalscorer twice, in 1950 with 25 goals for Universidad and in 1961 with 16 goals for Cartaginés.[2]
International career
[edit]He also played for Costa Rica at three CCCF Championships, the 1950 Central American and Caribbean Games and the 1951 Pan American Games.[1] He earned a total of 16 caps, scoring 6 goals.[3]
Basketball
[edit]Armijo also was a basketball player, playing for Seminario E. L. and Orión.[3]
Personal life
[edit]Armijo was married and had 4 children. After his football career he worked at the Banco Nacional and Banco Central de Costa Rica.[1]
He died on 9 August 2021, aged 94.[4]
Notes
[edit]- ^ In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Armijo and the second or maternal family name is Pujol.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c Figuras del ayer: Alberto Armijo Pujol - Nación (in Spanish)
- ^ Goleadores de Campeonato Nacional Archived 26 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine - UNAFUT (in Spanish)
- ^ a b El "Gallego" Armijo - Nación (in Spanish)
- ^ "Historial de Alberto "Gallego" Armijo". Diario Extra. 14 August 2021. Retrieved 19 September 2022.
External links
[edit]- Alberto Armijo Pujol at InterSportStats
- Alberto Armijo Pujol (Bio) - Nación (in Spanish)
- Alberto Armijo Pujol (GALLEGO) - Salon de la Fama del Deporte Costarricense (Costa Rican Sports Hall of Fame) at the Wayback Machine (archived 6 March 2016) (in Spanish)
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- 1926 births
- 2021 deaths
- Footballers from Guanacaste Province
- Men's association football forwards
- Costa Rican men's footballers
- Costa Rica men's international footballers
- La U Universitarios footballers
- C.S. Cartaginés players
- Liga FPD players
- Costa Rican men's basketball players
- Pan American Games silver medalists for Costa Rica
- Pan American Games silver medalists in football
- Competitors at the 1950 Central American and Caribbean Games
- Footballers at the 1951 Pan American Games
- Medalists at the 1951 Pan American Games
- Costa Rican football biography stubs