Miguel Augusto Riffo Garay (born 21 June 1981) is a Chilean former professional football player and the current

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Club career

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

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, Luis Mena and Fernando Meneses, 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 also has represented the

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on several occasions. He played in one game during the

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

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for Chile. Riffo started the first four games receiving a yellow card against Argentina. However, he was not recalled after the fourth match for the rest 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 2006

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 Chilean footballers Association football defenders Chilean Primera División players Colo-Colo footballers University of the Americas (Chile) alumni Santiago Morning footballers Chile international footballers 2007 Copa América players Chilean football managers Unión La Calera managers Deportes Iquique managers Chilean Primera División managers People from Santiago People from Santiago Province, Chile People from Santiago Metropolitan Region