Players
Main page: :Category:Club Deportivo O'Higgins playersSince the club's establishment in April 1955, more than of one thousand of the players on the team have been Chilean. Aníbal González and the former 1990s defender Gabriel Mendoza for example, were very important footballers during club's history. González is the historic top−scorer of the club with more than 100 goals and is current member of the Chilean political party: UDI, and Mendoza, who was part of the 1991 Copa Libertadores winning squad of Colo-Colo. An important fact in the history of Chilean football was selected by the Trinchera Celeste at the 20th century ideal team of the club, and is current linked to show business, specifically on the reality shows of Canal 13.
Foreign players like Federico Vairo and Mario Desiderio of Argentina, have also been important players in the history of club. During the mid–1960s, the first footballer named was a former River Plate player, earning three consecutive Primera División titles, alongside players like the keeper Amadeo Carrizo, the midfielder Omar Sívori, among others, whilst the second at Calcio Catania and Estudiantes de La Plata, he had his most successful spells of his career, added to the club of Rancagua and Deportivo Cali. Another important player of the club is Enzo Gutiérrez, also Argentine, that is Universidad de Chile current player, who was part of the historic squad led by Eduardo Berizzo that earned the Torneo de Apertura runner–up, being the most important player of the team, alongside Ramón Fernández and the left midfielder Luis Pedro Figueroa.
The team has been several Argentine footballers in majority, but also players of Paraguay, Brazil and Venezuela have been in minority. The most recent players of that nationalities are Richard Blanco and Rodrigo Rojas. In 2006, under the orders of the manager Jorge Garcés, arrived Giancarlo Maldonado, striker of the Venezuelan football team, who was the first footballer of that nationality, and Aílton da Silva, seasons later, was the first player of Brazilian nationality in 2008, when the coach Jorge Sampaoli was in the bench.
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