Francisco Osorto

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

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Osorto and the second or maternal family name is Guardado.

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

Club career

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

International career

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

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

Municipal Limeno

• Liga B: 1983

Santiagueno

• Primera División de Fútbol de El Salvador: 1979-1980

El Salvador

• Central American and Caribbean Games: 1978

External links

• [1]

References

1. Francisco Osorto at National-Football-Teams.com
2. LA FOTOGRAFÍA 14. CD MUNICIPAL LIMEÑO 1983 - El Güiricero (in Spanish)
3. Francisco Osorto – FIFA 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.