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Fernando Cornejo

Fernando Cornejo

Footballer

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Career & Clubs

Club career

He played domestically for O'Higgins, Cobreloa and Universidad Católica.

International career

He was capped 33 times and scored 2 goals for the Chile national team between 1991 and 2000, including two games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. In addition, he played for Chile B against England B on 10 February 1998. Chile won by 2-1.

Career statistics

International goals

Club
Club Deportivo Universidad Católica (1998–1999)
Club
O'Higgins F.C. (1990–1991)
Club
Cobreloa (1992–1997)
Club
Cobreloa (2000–2004)
Club
Chile men's national football team (1991–2000)
National team
Chile

Personal

Personal life

He is the father of the professional footballers Fernando Cornejo Miranda and Lucas Cornejo. He was nicknamed Corazón de Minero (Miner's Heart) due to the fact that he was a notable player of Cobreloa, a club based in Calama highly related with the copper mining.

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Identifiers & aliases
Description

Chilean footballer (1969-2009)

Position

midfielder

Extract from Wikipedia

Fernando Andrés Cornejo Jiménez was a Chilean football midfielder. He died of stomach cancer on 24 January 2009, at age 39.

▸ Source: Wikipedia
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