Fernando Andrés Cornejo Jiménez (28 January 1969 â 24 January 2009) was a Chilean football midfielder. He died of stomach cancer on 24 January 2009, at age 39.
He played domestically for O'Higgins, Cobreloa and Universidad Católica.
He was capped 33 times and scored 2 goals for the Chile national team between 1991 and 2000, including two games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. In addition, he played for Chile B against England B on 10 February 1998. Chile won by 2-1.
He is the father of the professional footballers Fernando Cornejo Miranda and Lucas Cornejo.
He was nicknamed Corazón de Minero (Miner's Heart) due to the fact that he was a notable player of Cobreloa, a club based in Calama highly related with the copper mining.