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Hugo Berly

Hugo Berly
Personal information
Full name Hugo Nelson Berly Silva
Date of birth (1941-12-31)December 31, 1941
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Date of death December 24, 2009(2009-12-24) (aged 67)
Place of death Washington, D.C., U.S.
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)[1]
Position(s) Right-back
Youth career
Manuel Montt
Picton Lennox
Santiago Wanderers
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1960–1963 Santiago Wanderers
1964–1970 Audax Italiano
1971–1977 Unión Española 118 (3)
International career
1967–1974 Chile 12 (0)
Managerial career
1981–1982 Audax Italiano
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Hugo Nelson Berly Silva (December 31, 1941 – December 24, 2009) was a Chilean footballer who played as a right-back.

Career

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Berly played for Unión Española, Audax Italiano and Santiago Wanderers in the domestic championship of Chile. He also represented the Chile national team[1] making 12 appearances. His international debut was in a 1–0 friendly victory against Argentina on 15 August 1967.[2] He was also part of the Chile squad in the 1966 World Cup, without featuring in the tournament.

On 6 April 1965, Berly was one of the constituent footballers of SIFUP [es], the trade union of professionales footballers in Chile, alongside fellows such as Pedro Araya, Manuel Astorga, Juan Rodríguez Vega, among others.[3]

Personal life

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Berly had a wife and two daughters. He died aged 67 on December 24, 2009 in Washington, D.C., United States.[4][5]

Honours

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Unión Española

References

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  1. ^ a b "Hugo Berly". National Football Teams. Retrieved 17 February 2021.
  2. ^ "Falleció ex mundialista chileno" (in Spanish). La Estrella de Iquique. 26 December 2009. Archived from the original on 28 December 2022. Retrieved 15 July 2015.
  3. ^ "Constitución Sifup". sifup.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.
  4. ^ "Hugo Berly Notice". Washington Post. December 30, 2009.
  5. ^ "Ex mundialista chileno en Inglaterra 66 falleció trágicamente en Nochebuena". El Mercurio (in Spanish). 25 December 2009.
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