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Antonio Atilio Aguirre (died before March 2003) was a Bolivian
footballer A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby lea ...
. He was part of Bolivia's squad that won the
1963 South American Championship The 1963 Copa América, South American Championship was held in Bolivia between 10 and 31 March 1963. It was won by Bolivian Football Federation, Bolivia with Paraguayan Football Association, Paraguay second. This is, so far, Bolivia's only Copa ...
on home soil.


International career

Aguirre was part of
Bolivia Bolivia, officially the Plurinational State of Bolivia, is a landlocked country located in central South America. The country features diverse geography, including vast Amazonian plains, tropical lowlands, mountains, the Gran Chaco Province, w ...
's
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for the 1959 South American Championship in Argentina. He played four games in the tournament, against
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,
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,
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and
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as Bolivia finished last of the tournament. Aguirre was again in Bolivia's
squad In military terminology, a squad is among the smallest of Military organization, military organizations and is led by a non-commissioned officer. NATO and United States, U.S. doctrine define a squad as an organization "larger than a fireteam, ...
for the
1963 South American Championship The 1963 Copa América, South American Championship was held in Bolivia between 10 and 31 March 1963. It was won by Bolivian Football Federation, Bolivia with Paraguayan Football Association, Paraguay second. This is, so far, Bolivia's only Copa ...
held on home soil. He only played one game in the tournament, against
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, as Bolivia won the competition, its only title to date.


References

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