Miguel Augusto Riffo Garay (born 21 June 1981) is a former Chilean professional

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player and the current

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's youth categories.

Club career

Product of Colo-Colo youth ranks, he won eight titles in his career with that club. In the 2000s, alongside his teammates

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, Luis Mena and

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, he also studied a technical-professional career in physical activity at the University of the Americas. His most successful moment with the coach Claudio Borghi, when he also was named during the 2007 season at the Chilean Primera División Best Eleven. Although Riffo was born with a

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, that complicated him very much, because he had to make several operations in his foot. In the 2010 season, he abandoned the club, because the

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coach

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not considered him for the next season and in January 2011, he signed for

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. In March 2012, he announced his retirement from

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, because Morning was relegated to the

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and also Riffo was titled as football coach at the ANFP, the last season that he played.

International career

He has appeared in the Chile national team. He played in one game at the

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versus Brazil when he committed a penalty. Later in the match Riffo was injured. Riffo played in the first four games of the

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. Riffo started the first four games receiving a yellow card against Argentina; he did not appear in the remainder of the qualification process.Riffo Statistics
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Honours

Club

Colo-Colo * Primera División (7): 2002–C, 2006–A, 2006–C, 2007–A, 2007–C, 2008–C, 2009–C *

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: Runner-up

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Individual

* Primera División de Chile Team Of The Season:

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Riffo, Miguel 1981 births Living people Chilean people of Italian descent Footballers from Santiago, Chile Chilean men's footballers 21st-century Chilean sportsmen Men's association football defenders Chilean Primera División players Colo-Colo footballers University of the Americas (Chile) alumni Santiago Morning footballers Chile men's international footballers 2007 Copa América players Chilean football managers Unión La Calera managers Deportes Iquique managers Curicó Unido managers Chilean Primera División managers People from Santiago Province, Chile Footballers from Santiago Metropolitan Region