Francisco Osorto
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Francisco Salvador Osorto Guardado (born 20 March 1957 in Santa Rosa de Lima) is a former football player from El Salvador
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matches and played at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain
. In 1977 he scored for El Salvador in an 8-0 drubbing of Nicaragua in qualification for the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games
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El Salvador
El Salvador or simply Salvador is the smallest and the most densely populated country in Central America. The country's capital city and largest city is San Salvador; Santa Ana and San Miguel are also important cultural and commercial centers in the country and in all of Central America...
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Club career
Osorto won the Nacional Liga B league title in 1983 with his hometown club Municipal LimeñoC.D. Municipal Limeño
Club Deportivo Municipal Limeño is a Salvadoran football club based in Santa Rosa de Lima, La Union, El Salvador. The club currently participates in the Segunda División de Fútbol Salvadoreño. Their home stadium is Estadio Jose Ramon Flores, with a capacity of 5,000.-History:Municipal Limeño...
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International career
Nicknamed Pancho, Osorto has represented his country in 5 FIFA World Cup qualificationFIFA World Cup qualification
The FIFA World Cup qualification is the process that a national association football team goes through to qualify for the FIFA World Cup Finals. The FIFA World Cup is a global event, so qualification is required to reduce the large field of participants from about 200 to 32.Qualifying tournaments...
matches and played at the 1982 FIFA World Cup in Spain
Spain
Spain , officially the Kingdom of Spain languages]] under the European Charter for Regional or Minority Languages. In each of these, Spain's official name is as follows:;;;;;;), is a country and member state of the European Union located in southwestern Europe on the Iberian Peninsula...
. In 1977 he scored for El Salvador in an 8-0 drubbing of Nicaragua in qualification for the 1978 Central American and Caribbean Games
1978 Central American and Caribbean Games
The 13th Central American and Caribbean Games were held in Medellín, Colombia from July 7 to July 28, 1978 and included 2.605 athletes from eighteen nations.-References:...
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Personal life
Osorto is married to Evelyn Rubio and the couple have four sons. His son Heraldo Salvador Osorto was a professional footballer with Atlético Marte and San Salvador F.C.San Salvador F.C.
San Salvador Futbol Club was a professional football club located in San Salvador, El Salvador that participated in Primera División de Fútbol Profesional from 2002 to 2008...
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