Álvaro Salvadores
Cartagena de Indias, Bolívar, Colombia | |
Nationality | Spanish / Chilean |
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Listed height | 6 ft 1.25 in (1.86 m) |
Listed weight | 185 lb (84 kg) |
Position | Small forward |
Career highlights and awards | |
As player: | |
Álvaro Salvadores Salvi (born 12 October 1928 in
Spain national team, and at the 1952 Summer Olympics, in the Chile.[2] Salvadores was also Chile's ambassador to Colombia, from 1986 to 1988. One of his younger brothers, Luis Salvadores
, was a basketball player.
Early life
As a young boy, Salvadores' family immigrated from
Universidad de Concepción
, but gave it up a couple of years later.
Basketball career
Salvadores played basketball from a young age. He played professional basketball for many years in Chile. He took part in the first
All-Tournament Team
.
In 1952, Salvadores was a member of the senior
Chilean basketball team, which finished in fifth place at the 1952 Summer Olympics Olympic Games. He played in all eight of Chile's games during the tournament, despite fracturing his femur during the dying minutes of the seventh game, after colliding with the goal post when he botched a layup
attempt. He played the last game on large amounts of pain medication, which would later be described as, "a mixture that could very nearly have killed him."
Personal life
Álvaro Salvadores went to
Cartagena de Indias, Colombia for a basketball competition. There, he met his future wife, Elsa de la Espriella, with whom he fell in love, and he decided to stay in Colombia. He was known for his handsome looks, which granted him a role as an extra in the film, "The Adventurers", in 1970. He had four children, Álvaro, Mónica, Elsa, and María Angélica Salvadores. After being Chile's ambassador to Colombia, he continued to live there, until his death in 2002, from lung cancer
.
References
- ^ "Falleció el destacado basquetbolista temuquense Luis Salvadores". soychile.cl (in Spanish). 2014-02-01. Retrieved 2020-06-17.
- ^ Evans, Hilary; Gjerde, Arild; Heijmans, Jeroen; Mallon, Bill; et al. "Álvaro Salvadores Olympic Results". Olympics at Sports-Reference.com. Sports Reference LLC. Archived from the original on 18 April 2020. Retrieved 15 June 2018.
- ^ hemeroteca.mundodeportivo Repaso al Mundial 1950 (in Spanish)
- ^ "1950 World Championship for Men:". archive.fiba.com.