Raimundo Tupper
{{short description|Chilean footballer (1969-1995)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}
{{family name hatnote|Tupper|Lyon|lang=Spanish}}
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| name = Raimundo Tupper
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| fullname = Raimundo Tupper Lyon
| birth_date = {{birth date|1969|1|7|df=y}}
| birth_place = Santiago, Chile
| death_date = {{death date and age|1995|7|20|1969|1|7|df=y}}
| death_place = San José, Costa Rica
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| position = Left Back
| youthyears1 = 1980–1985
| youthclubs1 = Universidad Católica
| years1 = 1985–1995
| clubs1 = Universidad Católica
| caps1 = 193
| goals1 = 26
| nationalyears1 = 1987
| nationalteam1 = Chile U20
| nationalteam2 = Chile
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| nationalcaps2 = 7
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Raimundo Tupper Lyon (7 January 1969 – 20 July 1995) was a Chilean professional football player, best known for his years with Universidad Católica. He was a left back.
Club career
Born into a family of five children (four males and one female). He studied at the St. Ignatius El Bosque, and joined the lower divisions of Universidad Católica in 1980, his first coach being former national team player Alberto Fouillioux.
He made his debut with the first team in 1985 against with Cobresal in the city of El Salvador. In 1987, he won the national title with Universidad Católica.
In 1989 Tupper joined Diego Portales University to study Engineering, which he did not finish. That year he won the Liguilla Pre-Libertadores (Chile) against Cobreloa, which enabled Católica to play in the Copa Libertadores.
Between 1989 and 1995 Mumo was a UC player, reaching with them the Copa Libertadores final in 1993, which they lost against Brazilian giants São Paulo. Previously he won the 1991 Copa Chile. He was also champion of the 1993 Copa Interamericana, held in 1994.{{Cite web |last= |first= |date=2020 |title=Con una copa internacional en su palmarés: La década del "Mumo" Tupper en la UC |url=https://www.encancha.cl/futbol-chileno/u-catolica/2020/7/20/con-una-copa-internacional-en-su-palmares-la-decada-del-mumo-tupper-en-la-uc-47519/ |language=es |access-date=11 May 2025 |publisher=Cruzados |archive-date=11 May 2025 |archive-url=https://archive.ph/gUHXW }}
International career
In 1987, he was called up to the Chilean under-20 national team, which won fourth place in the 1987 U-20 World Cup held in Chile, in which he played with his great friend and teammate Lukas Tudor.{{FIFA player|193223}}
Death
Tupper suffered from clinical depression, which led him to commit suicide by jumping off a balcony in the ninth floor of Hotel Centro Colón in San José, Costa Rica[http://www.elobservatodo.cl/admin/render/noticia/14478 Raimundo Tupper, el Mumo: El recuerdo imborrable de un elegido] - El Observatodo {{in lang|es}} on 20 July 1995 in San José, Costa Rica, being only 26 years old. Católica was supposed to play a friendly match against Deportivo Saprissa, but the game was subsequently suspended.[http://www.latercera.com/contenido/695_277674_9.shtml Hoy se cumplen 15 años de la muerte de Raimundo Tupper] - La Tercera {{in lang|es}}
Currently, a white cross was built in the mountains surrounding San Carlos de Apoquindo in memory of "Mumo". Subsequently, his brother Andrés Tupper, became the General Director of Universidad Católica.
Personal life
He was nicknamed Mumo, a hypocoristic of {{ill|Raimundo (name)|lt=Raimundo|es|Raimundo|vertical-align=sup}}.{{cite web |last1=Ortiz |first1=Juan |title=Hipocorístico: cómo se forman, ejemplos |url=https://www.lifeder.com/hipocoristico/ |website=Lifeder |access-date=22 July 2022 |language=es}}
His cousin, Rodrigo Tupper, was the priest who officiated his funeral mass and he is well-known in Chile for having left the priesthood to get married.{{cite web |last1=Vera Valdés |first1=Juan |title=Rodrigo Tupper y el presente de la iglesia: "En muchos sentidos han aprendido poco" |url=https://www.adnradio.cl/nacional/2020/07/20/rodrigo-tupper-y-el-presente-de-la-iglesia-en-muchos-sentidos-han-aprendido-poco.html |publisher=ADN Radio Chile |access-date=22 July 2022 |language=es |date=20 June 2020}}
The former Venezuela international footballer Javier González Tupper, is the son of a Raimundo's female cousin and played for Ñublense in Chile.{{cite web |title=La fugaz historia en Chile del sobrino venezolano de Tupper |url=https://chile.as.com/chile/2017/03/26/futbol/1490536228_332053.html |publisher=AS Chile |access-date=22 July 2022 |language=es |date=26 March 2017}}
References
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External links
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Category:Chilean men's footballers
Category:Chile men's international footballers
Category:Chile men's under-20 international footballers
Category:Chilean Primera División players
Category:Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers
Category:Suicides by jumping in Costa Rica
Category:Diego Portales University alumni
Category:Men's association football fullbacks