Arturo Díaz

Arturo del Carmen Díaz Muñoz (4 November 1940 – 13 November 1985), more popularly known as Canilla Díaz (Shin Díaz), was a Chilean football player and manager who played as a forward.

Early years Díaz was born in Coquimbo, a port city in Chile, to Floridor Segundo Díaz Navea, a ship stevedore and amateur water polo player, and Clementina Alicia Muñoz Ávalos, a food peddler. He grew up alongside his five siblings (Jery, Mario, Carlos, Lilian and Magaly) and his two nephews (Alicia and Tito) who were officially adopted as Floridor and Clementina's children.

As a child, Díaz played for both Independiente Vicuña, a club based in the street where he lived, and Unión Farola, before joining Coquimbo Unido. Along with Coquimbo Unido, he got promotion to the Primera División, the first title for the club, after winning the 1962 Segunda División, scoring the winning goal in the last matchday versus Universidad Técnica del Estado.

He stayed with Coquimbo Unido in Primera División, even making an appearance in the cover of the renowned Chilean sports magazine , until 1965, when the club was relegated to the second category. So, he switched to Unión Española for the 1966 season on a deal for 43,000 Chilean escudos, being loaned to Colo-Colo for a summer tournament. The next year, he played for Ferroviarios, his last club in Chile. becoming the team goalscorer en 1976 with eight goals. He retired at the end of the 1970s according to the former merchant sailor from Coquimbo, Luis Rivera, with whom Díaz met in Tegucigalpa. due to the fact that Díaz's granddaughter, Julieth Diaz, accidentally discovered an article on the internet about his grandfather and made contact with the author, Felipe Fernández.