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Key facts
- 2005
- → Deportes Ovalle (loan)
- 2007
- → Provincial Osorno (loan)
- 2024
- Deportes Limache
- 2025
- Montijo
- Full name
- Francisco Andrés Silva Gajardo
- Date of birth
- ( 1986-02-11 ) 11 February 1986 (age 40)
- Place of birth
- Quillota , Chile
- Height
- 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
- Position
- Defensive midfielder
- 1998 1999
- Colo-Colo
- 2000 2005
- Universidad Católica
- Years
- Team
- 2005 2013
- Universidad Católica
- 2013 2015
- Osasuna
- 2014 2015
- → Club Brugge (loan)
- 2015 2016
- Chiapas
- 2016 2018
- Cruz Azul
- 2018 2019
- Independiente
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Francisco
- Family name
- Silva
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Chile
- Place of birth
- Quillota
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 2014 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Chile men's national football team
- Position played
- midfielder
- Country for sport
- Chile
- Mass
- 75
- Image
- Spain - Chile - 10-09-2013 - Geneva - Francisco Silva and Andres Iniesta (cropped).jpg
- Height
- 178
Show 4 more facts
- Commons category
- Francisco Silva
- date of birth
- 1986-02-11
- sport number
- 5
- start of work period
- 2005-00-00
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 31 December 2024
Francisco Andrés 'Gato' Silva Gajardo (born 11 February 1986), known as Francisco Silva, is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a defensive midfielder. He is considered one of the greatest Chilean defensive midfielders of all time. His winning penalty in Copa America Centenario gave Chile their second consecutive Copa America title.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Francisco Silva” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.