Ramiro Castillo

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Castillo and the second or maternal family name is Salinas.

Ramiro Castillo

Personal information
Full name	Ramiro Castillo Salinas
Date of birth	(1966-03-27)March 27, 1966
Place of birth	Coripata, Bolivia
Date of death
Place of death	La Paz, Bolivia
Height
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1985–1986	The Strongest	108 total	(17)
1987–1988	Instituto	27	(4)
1988–1990	Argentinos Juniors	69	(8)
1990–1991	River Plate	10	(10)
1991–1992	Rosario Central	16	(3)
1992–1994	Platense	23	(1)
1994–1996	The Strongest	(see above)	(5)
1997	Everton	?	(7)
1997	Bolívar	30	(8)
International career
1989–1997	Bolivia	52	(5)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of March 2008

Ramiro Castillo Salinas (March 27, 1966 – October 18, 1997) was a football midfielder who was capped 52 times and scored 5 international goals for Bolivia between 1989 and 1997. He made one substitute appearance at the 1994 FIFA World Cup.

Castillo was born in Coripata, a small town in the sub-tropical Yungas region. His first professional team was The Strongest, club with which he always identified. From there he went to play successfully in the Argentine football, defending the colors of Instituto de Córdoba, Argentinos Juniors, River Plate, Rosario Central and Platense. He set a record for the most appearances in the Argentine league by a Bolivian player with 152 games, he scored 10 goals in Argentina too.

Later in his career he returned to Bolivia where he played for The Strongest and Club Bolívar.

Castillo's nickname was "Chocolatín" by the colour of his skin.

He played at the Copa América 1997, where Bolivia were runners-up after losing 1-3 in the final against Brazil. Castillo missed the final game due to the sudden death of his infant son. Castillo never recovered from this and committed suicide in October of that year. He was 31 years old.

The Bolivian football association announced a month of mourning after his death, and the derby game between his former clubs The Strongest and Bolívar was postponed. In Argentina there was a minutes silence at the game between his former club Platense and Gimnasia de Jujuy where the players wore black armbands.

External links

• Argentine Primera statistics (Spanish)
• Ramiro Castillo at National-Football-Teams.com
• Article on the 10 year anniversary of his death (Spanish)