Misael Escuti
Personal information
Full name Misael Escuti Rovira
Date of birth (1926-12-20)20 December 1926
Place of birth Copiapó, Chile
Date of death 3 January 2005(2005-01-03) (aged 78)
Place of death Santiago, Chile
Height 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
1944–1945 Santiago National
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1945 Badminton 3 (0)
1946–1964 Colo-Colo 417 (0)
Total 420 (0)
International career
1948–1962 Chile 40 (0)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Chile
FIFA World Cup
Third place1962 Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Misael Escuti Rovira (20 December 1926 – 3 January 2005) was a Chilean footballer of Italian ancestry, remembered for being the key player with the Chile national team that reached third place in the 1962 FIFA World Cup tournament.[1]

Personal life

On 6 April 1965, Escuti was one of the constituent footballers of SIFUP, the trade union of professionales footballers in Chile, alongside fellows such as Efraín Santander, Francisco Valdés, Hugo Lepe, among others.[2]

References

  1. "Misael Escuti". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 7 July 2021.
  2. "Constitución Sifup". sifup.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2022.


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