Honorino Landa
Honorino Landa Vera (1 June 1942, in Puerto Natales - 30 May 1987, in Santiago) was a Chilean football player.[1]
He was the youngest player of the Chilean team that won third place in the 1962 FIFA World Cup, and was one of the disgraced players directly involved in the Battle of Santiago incident during the Group 2 match between Chile and Italy. Once he received his high-school diploma in 1959, he went to play for the Unión Española (Spanish Union) team. In 1961, he scored 24 goals in the national championship; thanks to this, he was called up for the national team of his country. He stopped playing soccer in 1975.
Landa Vera died of cancer in a hospital in Santiago one day before his 45th birthday.
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