Francisco "Pancho" Salvador Osorto Guardado (20 March 1957 – 26 February 2023) was a Salvadoran footballer who played as a defender.

Francisco Osorto
Personal information
Full name Francisco Salvador Osorto Guardado
Date of birth (1957-03-20)20 March 1957
Place of birth Santa Rosa de Lima, El Salvador
Date of death 26 February 2023(2023-02-26) (aged 65)
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
Municipal Limeño
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1972-1976 Municipal Limeño
1976–1977 LA Firpo
1977–1982 Santiagueño
1983–1987 Municipal Limeño
1987-1988 CESSA
International career
1979–1982[1] El Salvador
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Club career

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Osorto won the Nacional Liga B league title in 1983 with his hometown club Municipal Limeño.[2]

International career

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Nicknamed Pancho, Osorto represented his country in five FIFA World Cup qualification matches[3] 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.[4]

Personal life and death

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Osorto was married to Evelyn Rubio and the couple have four sons. His son Heraldo Salvador Osorto was a professional footballer with Atlético Marte[5] and San Salvador.

Osorto died from liver failure on 26 February 2023, at the age of 65.[6]

Honours

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Municipal Limeno

  • Liga B: 1983

Santiagueno

El Salvador

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References

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  1. ^ Francisco Osorto at National-Football-Teams.com
  2. ^ LA FOTOGRAFÍA 14. CD MUNICIPAL LIMEÑO 1983 - El Güiricero (in Spanish)
  3. ^ Francisco OsortoFIFA competition record (archived)
  4. ^ Con la historia a favor Archived 24 March 2012 at the Wayback Machine - El Gráfico (in Spanish)
  5. ^ Con la misma fibra - El Diario de Hoy (in Spanish)
  6. ^ "Fallece Francisco Osorto, ex mundialista con El Salvador en España 1982" (in Spanish). El Gráfico. 26 February 2023. Retrieved 28 February 2023.