Alberto Armijo
Costa Rican footballer (1926-2021)
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Alberto Armijo Pujol[a] (27 September 1926 – 9 August 2021) was a Costa Rican football striker.
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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 | 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 | |||||||||||||||||
Club career
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]
Personal life
Notes
- In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Armijo and the second or maternal family name is Pujol.
