Fernando Andrés Cornejo Jiménez (January 28, 1969 – January 24, 2009) was a Chilean football midfielder. He died of stomach cancer on January 24, 2009, four days before his 40th birthday.[1]
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Fernando Andrés Cornejo Jiménez | ||
Date of birth | (1969-01-28)28 January 1969 | ||
Place of birth | Rengo, Chile | ||
Date of death | 24 January 2009(2009-01-24) (aged 39) | ||
Place of death | Santiago, Chile | ||
Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
O'Higgins | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1990–1991 | O'Higgins | ||
1992–1997 | Cobreloa | 82 | (13) |
1998–1999 | Universidad Católica | 36 | (1) |
2000–2004 | Cobreloa | 116 | (21) |
National team | |||
1991–2000 | Chile | 33 | (2) |
1998 | Chile B | 1 | (0) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
He played domestically for O'Higgins, Cobreloa and Universidad Católica.
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.[2] In addition, he played for Chile B against England B on February 10, 1998. Chile won by 2-1.[3]
# | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition | ||||||||
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1. | 15 December 1996 | Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ![]() | 1–1 | Draw | 1998 World Cup qualification | ||||||||
2. | 4 January 1997 | Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile | ![]() | 7–0 | Win | Friendly | ||||||||
Correct as of 7 October 2015[4][5][6] | ||||||||||||||
He is the father of the professional footballer Fernando Cornejo Miranda.[7]
He was nicknamed Corazón de Minero (Miner's Heart)[8] due to the fact that he was a notable player of Cobreloa, a club based in Calama highly related with the copper mining.[9]
la historia de amor eterno entre Cornejo y el equipo de Calama tuvo un nuevo episodio, en el cual se ganó el apodo de "corazón de minero".
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