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Fernando Cornejo (footballer, born 1969)

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Fernando Cornejo
Personal information
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)
International career
1991–2000 Chile 33 (2)
1998 Chile B 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Fernando Andrés Cornejo Jiménez (January 28, 1969 – January 24, 2009) was a Chilean football midfielder. He died of stomach cancer on January 24, 2009, at age 39.[1]

Club career

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

International career

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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]

Career statistics

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International goals

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# Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 15 December 1996 Estadio Monumental Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina  Argentina 1–1 Draw 1998 World Cup qualification
2. 4 January 1997 Estadio Sausalito, Viña del Mar, Chile  Armenia 7–0 Win Friendly
Correct as of 7 October 2015[4][5][6]

Personal life

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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]

Honours

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Club

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Cobreloa

References

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  1. ^ FIFA.com
  2. ^ "Fernando Cornejo". PartidosdelaRoja (in Spanish). Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  3. ^ "Inglaterra 1 – Chile 2: Cuando la (otra) Selección venció a Inglaterra". Guioteca.com (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 13 April 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2021.
  4. ^ 2000 MATCHES INTERCONTINENTAL (January - March)
  5. ^ 1997 MATCHES INTERCONTINENTAL
  6. ^ 1996 MATCHES SOUTH AMERICA
  7. ^ "La explicación de Fernando Cornejo para nunca usar la camiseta de Colo Colo". El Periscopio (in Spanish). 25 January 2017. Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  8. ^ Quijada, Vicente (28 January 2021). "Fernando Cornejo: El 'corazón de minero' de La Roja". www.laroja.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 7 October 2021.
  9. ^ "Fernando Cornejo, la historia del "corazón de minero"". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Cooperativa. Retrieved 7 October 2021. 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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