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)
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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 as of 28 April 2015 | |||||||||||||||||
Alberto Armijo Pujol[a] (27 September 1926 – 9 August 2021) was a Costa Rican football striker.
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
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
Armijo also was a basketball player, playing for Seminario E. L. and Orión.[3]
