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Ballet Azul, the Glossary

The Ballet Azul (Blue Ballet) is a term coined in Colombia in the 1950s to describe the Millonarios football team, during its successful period from 1949–1964, because the blue color of their uniform, the large number of titles who had won the team, and the quality of its game.^[1]

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Club Universidad de Chile
Football in Chile
Football in Colombia
Football in Costa Rica
Football in Ecuador
Millonarios F.C.

Adolfo Pedernera

Adolfo Alfredo Pedernera (15 November 1918 – 12 May 1995) was an Argentine football player and coach.

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Alberto Quintano

Alberto Fernando Quintano Ralph (born 26 April 1946), commonly known as El Mariscal, is a Chilean former professional footballer.

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Alfredo Di Stéfano

Alfredo Stéfano Di Stéfano Laulhé (4 July 1926 – 7 July 2014) was a professional footballer and coach who played as a forward, regarded as one of the greatest footballers of all time.

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Braulio Musso

Braulio Enrique Musso Reyes (born March 8, 1930) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a left winger for Universidad de Chile from 1951 to 1968, and was a member of the Chile national football team at the FIFA World Cup Chile 1962, but did not play in any games.

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C.S. Cartaginés

Club Sport Cartaginés Deportiva S.A., also known as Cartaginés, is a Costa Rican football club, that currently plays in the Liga de Fútbol de Primera División, the top division of Costa Rican football league system.

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C.S. Emelec

Club Sport Emelec is an Ecuadorian sports club based in Guayaquil that is best known for their professional football team.

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Carlos Aldabe

Carlos Roberto Aldabe (January 1, 1919 – October 16, 1998) was an Argentine association football player and coach.

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Carlos Héctor Campos Silva (14 February 1937 – 11 November 2020) was a Chilean footballer.

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Carlos Raúl Contreras Guillén (7 October 1938 – 17 April 2020) was a Chilean football defender who played for Chile in the 1962 FIFA World Cup.

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Categoría Primera A

The Categoría Primera A, commonly referred to as Liga BetPlay Dimayor due to sponsorship by online betting company BetPlay, is a Colombian professional league for association football clubs.

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Chile

Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America.

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The Chile national football team (Selección de fútbol de Chile), nicknamed La Roja, represents Chile in men's international football competitions and is controlled by the Federación de Fútbol de Chile which was established in 1895. Ballet Azul and Chile national football team are football in Chile.

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Chilean Primera División

The Chilean Primera División (First Division of Chile) is a professional football league, being the highest division of Chilean football league system.

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Club Atlético River Plate

Club Atlético River Plate, commonly known as River Plate, is an Argentine professional sports club based in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires.

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Club Universidad de Chile

Club Universidad de Chile is a professional football club based in Santiago, Chile, that plays in the Primera División.

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Colombia

Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia, is a country primarily located in South America with insular regions in North America.

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Costa Rica

Costa Rica (literally "Rich Coast"), officially the Republic of Costa Rica, is a country in the Central American region of North America.

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Ecuador

Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and the Pacific Ocean on the west.

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Ernesto Álvarez

Ernesto Bernardo Álvarez Terojín (August 10, 1928 in Fuentes – September 27, 2010 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine and Chilean football striker.

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FIFA

The Fédération Internationale de Football Association, more commonly known by its acronym FIFA, is the international self-regulatory governing body of association football, beach soccer, and futsal.

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Francisco Zuluaga

Francisco "Cobo" Zuluaga Rodríguez (4 February 1929 in Medellín, Colombia – 8 November 1993) was a Colombian footballer.

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Gabriel Ochoa Uribe

Gabriel Ochoa Uribe (November 20, 1929 – August 8, 2020) was a Colombian football player and manager.

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Inter Milan

Football Club Internazionale Milano, commonly referred to as Internazionale or simply Inter, and colloquially known as Inter Milan in English-speaking countries, is an Italian professional football club based in Milan, Lombardy.

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Jaime Caupolicán Ramírez Banda (14 August 1931 – 26 February 2003) was a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a right winger.

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Julio Cozzi

Julio Adolfo Cozzi (14 July 1922 – 25 September 2011) was an Argentine football goalkeeper who won the Copa América 1947 with the Argentina national team.

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Julio César Ramírez (born 30 April 1974) is a Uruguayan former footballer who played the majority of his career in Uruguay for Montevideo Wanderers, Miramar Misiones and Progreso.

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La Máquina

La Máquina (the Machine) is a nickname given to the River Plate football team from 1941 to 1947, commonly referred by the media as the best Argentine team of its era and one of the best teams worldwide.

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Leonel Sánchez

Leonel Guillermo Sánchez Lineros (25 April 1936 – 2 April 2022) was a Chilean professional footballer who played as a striker or on the left wing.

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Luis Álamos

Luis "El Zorro" Álamos Luque (25 December 1923 – 26 June 1983) was a football manager from Chile.

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Luis Eyzaguirre

Luis Armando Eyzaguirre Silva (born 22 June 1939), also known as Fifo, is a former Chilean football player.

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Manuel Astorga

Manuel Miguel Astorga Carreño (born 15 May 1937) is a Chilean kinesiologist and former footballer who played as a goalkeeper.

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Millonarios F.C.

Millonarios Fútbol Club, known simply as Millonarios, is a Colombian professional football club based in Bogotá, that competes in the Categoría Primera A, top flight of football in Colombia.

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Néstor Rossi

Néstor Raúl "Pipo" Rossi (Buenos Aires, 10 May 1925 – 13 June 2007) was an Argentine footballer who played as a midfielder.

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Raúl Pini

Raúl Hermenegildo Pini Giovio (2 June 1923 – 2 October 1998) was a Uruguayan footballer.

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Ramón Alberto Villaverde

Ramón Alberto Villaverde Vázquez (March 16, 1930 – September 15, 1986) was an Uruguayan footballer who played for FC Barcelona in Spain, among other clubs.

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Real Madrid CF

Real Madrid Club de Fútbol, commonly referred to as Real Madrid, is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid.

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Rubén Marcos

Héctor Rubén Marcos Peralta (6 December 1942, at Osorno, Chile – 14 August 2006, at Osorno), known as Rubén Marcos, was a Chilean football player who played as a midfielder.

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Sergio Raúl Navarro Rodríguez (born February 20, 1936, in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean former football player and manager who played as a left-back.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ballet_Azul

Ballet Azul, the Glossary

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See also

Club Universidad de Chile

Football in Chile

Football in Colombia

Football in Costa Rica

Football in Ecuador

Millonarios F.C.

References