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Juan Álvarez
Personal information
Full name Juan Silvestre Álvarez Rubiño
Date of birth (1942-10-30)30 October 1942
Place of birth Mejillones, Chile
Date of death 28 October 2023(2023-10-28) (aged 80)
Place of death Valparaíso, Chile
Height 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Striker
Youth career
Rápido de Mejillones
Viva Chile
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1958–1962 San Luis
1962–1969 Santiago Wanderers 178 (71)
1969–1970 Lota Schwager
1971–1972 Deportes La Serena40 (10)
1972 Palestino
1973 Bolívar
1973–1974 Deportes La Serena11 (4)
1974–1975 Santiago Wanderers52 (13)
1976 Unión La Calera
Managerial career
Santiago Wanderers (youth)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan Silvestre Álvarez Rubiño (30 October 1942 – 28 October 2023) was a Chilean football striker who played for clubs in Chile and Bolivia. A historical player of Santiago Wanderers, he is the top goalscorer in the club history.[1]

Playing career

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A striker, Álvarez was with both Rápido from Mejillones and Viva Chile from Limache in his youth career. He began his professional career with San Luis de Quillota in 1958, winning the league title of the Segunda División and earning promotion to the top division.[2]

In the top division, he played for San Luis, Santiago Wanderers, Lota Schwager[1] and Deportes La Serena.[3] A historical player of Santiago Wanderers, he won the second league title for the club in 1968 alongside well remembered players such as Vicente Cantatore, Reynaldo Hoffmann [es], Juan Olivares, among others, a team known as The Panzers.[4] He also became the top goalscorer in the club history with 84 goals[5] and has been chosen as centre-forward of the all-time team by the club fans.[6]

He coincided with his fellow Ricardo Cabrera[7] in Santiago Wanderers, Lota Schwager and Deportes La Serena, becoming his best attacking partner.[1]

He scored the first goal in the history of the Estadio MonumentalofColo-Colo as a player of Santiago Wanderers, in a match against Santiago Morning on 20 April 1975.[8]

In the second division, he played for Lota Schwager, Palestino and Unión La Calera, his last club.[1] At that division, he also won the league titles in 1969 with Lota Schwager[9] and 1972 with Palestino.[2]

Abroad, he had a stint with Bolivian club Bolívar of the Asociación de Fútbol de La Paz [es] in 1973.[4][2]

Well known for his strong personality, he retired in 1976 as a player of Unión La Calera, due to the fact that he was sanctioned for fifteen matchdays after supposedly assaulting a referee.[1]

Coaching career

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Álvarez worked for many years in the Santiago Wanderers youth ranks, taking part in the training of players such as David Pizarro and Reinaldo Navia.[10]

Personal life

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Born in Mejillones, Chile, Álvarez moved to Limache along with his family in 1955. As a student, he attended the Rafael Ariztía Institute of the Marist Brothers.[1]

Álvarez, nicknamed Tanque (Tank), is the father of another former player of Santiago Wanderers, Claudio Álvarez, who inherited the nickname.[11]

Álvarez died on 28 October 2023, at the age of 80.[12][8]

Legacy

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The municipal sports complex of Mejillones, his city of birth, was given his name, '"Juan Álvarez Rubiño".[13][14]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d e f g Chomsky (15 January 2018). "El Tanque Álvarez" (in Spanish). La Tercera. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  • ^ a b c "Juan ÁLVAREZ". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 July 2023.
  • ^ "Club de Deportes LA SERENA". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 5 December 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  • ^ a b "Panzers del 68 visitaron al emblemático "Tanque" Álvarez". corporacionwanderers.cl (in Spanish). 5 October 2016. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  • ^ (Santiago Wanderers) Reconocimiento a Juan "Tanque" Alvarez 22 octubre 2017onYouTube (in Spanish). 24 October 2017. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  • ^ (Santiago Wanderers de Vaparaíso) Juan "Tanque" Álvarez es el 9 elegido por la Familia Wanderina para el Equipo Histórico de Santiago Wanderers (in Spanish). 8 May 2020. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  • ^ "Ricardo Cabrera". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  • ^ a b Díaz, Matías (29 October 2023). "Fallece Juan Álvarez, autor del primer gol anotado en el Estadio Monumental en el año 1975". Dale Albo (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  • ^ "LOTA SCHWAGER: 47 AÑOS DE FÚTBOL Y PASIÓN MINERA". www.anfp.cl (in Spanish). ANFP. 10 May 2013. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  • ^ Schiappacasse, Aldo (20 January 2017). "EyN: Los "tanques" no pasan de moda". www.economiaynegocios.cl (in Spanish). El Mercurio. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  • ^ "Es un orgullo trabajar en un modelo deportivo tan exitoso como el de Viña". Historia Deportiva (in Spanish). 21 January 2016. Retrieved 12 March 2023.
  • ^ "Falleció Juan "Tanque" Álvarez Rubiño: histórico goleador de Santiago Wanderers". SoyChile (in Spanish). 29 October 2023. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  • ^ "Juan 'El Tanque' Álvarez se llamará el nuevo polideportivo de Mejillones". SoyChile (in Spanish). 7 January 2014. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
  • ^ "Tocopilla se quedó con el cuadrangular de básquetbol que se disputó en Mejillones". SoyChile (in Spanish). 19 October 2015. Retrieved 22 July 2023.
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