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Luis Rojas made history this Saturday in Italy. The midfielder trained at Universidad de Chile entered in the 87th minute in the 3-1 defeat that Crotone suffered against Sampdoria. And that made him the youngest Chilean to debut in peninsular soccer.
Despite not being able to gravitate to the scoreboard, Rojas managed to make his debut in the Italian football elite, which earned him the thirty-first national player to add minutes in Serie A. The first did 58 years ago.
Jorge Toro, a World Cup player in 1962, arrived at Calcio after his participation with Chile in the planetary event, more precisely at Sampdoria, and began the path of compatriots in the European nation.
However, a few days ago, he met a national representative who was in 1919. A study by the Chilean Football Researchers Association states that Félix Corte was the first Chilean to play in Italy and even played a final against the Inter playing for Livorno.
Corte, the son of an Italian father and a Chilean mother, was born in Valdivia and went to the First World War as a volunteer to defend the country from his father. Hence its proximity to Calcio, where it shone alongside the Tuscan team.
The rest of the players? Meet the list here:
1.- Jorge Toro
2.- Hugo Rubio
3.- Iván Zamorano
4.- Marcelo Salas
5.- David Pizarro
6.- Héctor Tapia
7.- Pasqual De Gregorio
8.- Jorge Vargas
9.- Alejandro Escalona
10.- Jaime Valdés
11.- Julio Gutiérrez
12.- Nicolás Córdova
13.- Mario Salgado
14.- Mauricio Pinilla
15.- Luis Jiménez
16.- Mauritius Island
17.- Carlos Carmona
18.- Alexis Sánchez
19.- Arturo Vidal
20.- Felipe Seymour
21.- Cristóbal Jorquera
22.- Carlos Labrín
23.- Eduardo Vargas
24.- Matías Fernández
25.- Matías Campos Toro
26.- Gary Medel
27.- Erick Pulgar
28.- Manuel Iturra
29.- Nicolas Castillo
30.- Francisco Sierralta
31.- Luis Rojas
* Jaime González and Ignacio Jeraldino are also on the list, but they did not add minutes.
** Félix Corte next to Livorno in 1919.
