Hugo Sotil
Peruvian footballer (1949–2024)
Hugo Alejandro Sotil Yerén (18 May 1949 – 30 December 2024) was a Peruvian professional football player.[1][2] He was nicknamed El Cholo. He played as a striker or midfielder. He was one of Peru's most well known football players of the 1970s.[3] He played for the Peru national football team from 1970 to 1978. He also played for FC Barcelona from 1973 to 1977.
 Sotil with FC Barcelona | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Hugo Alejandro Sotil Yerén | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 18 May 1949 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Ica, Peru | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of death | 30 December 2024 (aged 75) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of death | Lima, Peru | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Club Gaillard | |||||||||||||||||
| Deportivo Municipal | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1968–1973 | Deportivo Municipal | 121 | (57) | ||||||||||||||
| 1973–1977 | Barcelona | 65 | (21) | ||||||||||||||
| 1977–1978 | Alianza Lima | 54 | (30) | ||||||||||||||
| 1979–1980 | Independiente Medellín | 32 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 1981–1982 | Deportivo Municipal | 23 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| 1984 | Los Espartanos | 8 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 1986 | Deportivo Junin | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 304 | (125) | |||||||||||||||
| National team | |||||||||||||||||
| 1970–1978 | Peru | 62 | (18) | ||||||||||||||
| Teams managed | |||||||||||||||||
| 1985 | Los Espartanos | ||||||||||||||||
| 1986 | Deportivo Junin | ||||||||||||||||
| 1999 | Deportivo Municipal | ||||||||||||||||
Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only | |||||||||||||||||
On 20 December 2024, Sotil was hospitalized in Lima, Peru under critical condition after having septic shock due to multiple organ failure.[4] He died ten days later on 30 December 2024 from kidney and liver failure at the age of 75.[5][6][7]
References
change- ↑ "FIFA Tournaments". FIFA. Archived from the original on 7 October 2008.
- ↑ (in Spanish) FPF profile Archived 24 September 2017 at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ 35 anniversary of the film "Cholo" Retrieved on 17 January 2009
- ↑ "FC Barcelona Legend Admitted To Intensive Care Unit". Forbes. 20 December 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ↑ "Muere Hugo Sotil, leyenda del Barça y del fútbol peruano" (in Spanish). Mundodeportivo. 30 December 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ↑ "FC Barcelona Legend Dies On Cusp Of 2025". Forbes. 30 December 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
- ↑ "Hugo Sotil, former Peru and Barcelona forward, dies at 75". The Washington Post. 30 December 2024. Retrieved 30 December 2024.
Other websites
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Media related to Hugo Sotil at Wikimedia Commons
- Some of the Maximum Figures of World Soccer www.terra.com
- The 4 greats of Barcelona www.terra.com
- Hugo "Cholo" Sotil, a great one for all time www.conmmebol.com
- History of world soccer
- Hugo Sotil, Biography
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