Eulogio Vargas (21 March 1931 – 26 August 2020) was an Argentine-born Bolivian
footballer
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.
He played in five matches for the
Bolivia national football team
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in 1963. He was also part of Bolivia's squad that won the
1963 South American Championship
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.
Vargas died in
La Paz
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, Bolivia, on 26 August 2020, at the age of 89.
International career
Born in
Argentina
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, he obtained Bolivian citizenship at the beginning of the 1960s.
Vargas was selected in
Bolivia
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's
squad
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for the
1963 South American Championship
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on home soil.
Vargas played 5 games during the competition, getting his first cap on 10 March against
Ecuador
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.
The game against
Brazil
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on 31 March was his fifth and last cap,
as Bolivia won the
competition
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, its first and only
Copa America
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References
1931 births
2020 deaths
Bolivian men's footballers
20th-century Bolivian sportsmen
Bolivia men's international footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Club Bolívar players
Copa América–winning players
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