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Chilean Footballer Of The Year
Chilean Footballer of the Year is an award that the Circulo de Periodistas de Chile annually grants, to those Chilean soccer players who during the season of Primera División de Chile have obtained the greater number of points, in agreement with the opinion of the editors of the agency. Chilean Footballer of the Year Statistics by Club * Colo-Colo: 9 times * Universidad Católica: 7 times * Universidad de Chile: 6 times * Cobreloa: 5 times * Audax Italiano, Cobresal, Palestino, Real Sociedad, Santiago Wanderers, Unión Española: 1 time See also * Player of the Year of Argentina * Paraguayan Footballer of the Year * Footballer of the Year (other) References External links Chile - Player of the Yearat RSSSF The Rec.Sport.Soccer Statistics Foundation (RSSSF) is an international organization dedicated to collecting statistics about association football. The foundation aims to build an exhaustive archive of football-related information from around th ... ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Primera División , Spain's highest football competition
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Club Universidad De Chile
Club Universidad de Chile () is a professional football club based in Santiago, Chile, that plays in the Primera División. Founded on 24 May 1927, Universidad de Chile is one of the most successful and popular football clubs in Chile, having won the league title 18 times. In the last 10 years, the team has been crowned champion six times, including their undefeated run to the 2011 Copa Sudamericana title. The team has been associated with the colour blue throughout its history, blue is present on the logo, which was officially adopted in 1943. The club rivalries are with Colo-Colo and Universidad Católica, with whom they regularly contest the Santiago derbies known as ''Clásicos''. Despite not owning its stadium, the club usually plays its home games at the Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, in the commune of Ñuñoa in Santiago. Universidad de Chile was the champion of the Copa Sudamericana 2011. In this tournament, the club had an excellent performance: wasn' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Miguel Ramírez
Miguel Mauricio Ramírez Pérez (born 11 June 1970), nicknamed "Cheíto", is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a defender. He is the current manager of Universidad de Concepción in the Primera B de Chile Campeonato Primera B ( en, Chilean First B Division) is the second tier in the Chilean football league system, and is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. It was established in 1952 as ''Segunda División'', and later renam .... Ramírez was capped 62 times and scored 1 goal for the Chile national team between 1991 and 2003, including three games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup. Career Ramírez started his career in 1991 with Colo-Colo, where he was part of two league championship winning campaigns in 1991 and 1993. During his time with the club, it also won the Copa Libertadores in 1991, Copa Interamericana 1991 and Recopa Sudamericana in 1992. Ramírez played in Spain with Real Sociedad and in Mexico with C.F. Monterrey before r ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rodrigo Meléndez
Rodrigo David Meléndez Araya (born 3 October 1977) is Chilean former professional footballer and manager. He played as a defensive midfielder in his years active. During his football career, he has won seven Chilean league titles with Colo-Colo and Cobreloa. International career He has represented Chile at Copa América in 2004 and 2007. International goals Personal life His son, Javier, is a professional footballer from the Colo-Colo youth ranks who made his professional debut playing for Cobreloa in 2021. Honours Player Cobreloa * Primera División: 2003 Clausura Colo-Colo * Primera División (6): 2006-A, 2006-C, 2007-A, 2007-C, 2008-C, 2009-C * Copa Sudamericana: Runner-up 2006 File:2006 Events Collage V1.png, From top left, clockwise: The 2006 Winter Olympics open in Turin; Twitter is founded and launched by Jack Dorsey; The Nintendo Wii is released; Montenegro 2006 Montenegrin independence referendum, votes to declare ... References External links * * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cobreloa
Club de Deportes Cobreloa S.A.D.P. (), commonly referred to as Cobreloa, is a Chilean football professional club based in Calama, Región de Antofagasta, Chile. That competes in the Primera B. The club's home ground is the Estadio Zorros del Desierto. Founded on 7 January 1977, by the initiative of various local groups and the Chilean state-owned enterprise, CODELCO. This club was created starting from the Legal Personality of the local club, Deportes El Loa. On 30 March 2006, the club changed to a ''Limited sports company'' with the unanimous approval of 56 of its ''socios'' (members). According to the 2018 year public report, the capital of the club is $4.534 billion CLP ($6.697.624,8 USD) spread on 1.000.000 shares of stock without nominal value, mostly owned by the ''socios'' (members of club) with 999,999 of them and the chairman of the club with 1 share. In 2018 the first team budget was $100 million CLP. The club's professional debut in Segunda división professiona ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Luis Fuentes (footballer, Born 1971)
Luis Alberto Fuentes Rodríguez (born 14 August 1971) is Chilean former footballer that played as centre back in his years active. His last club was Coquimbo Unido. International career Fuentes made 24 appearances for Chile from 1998 to 2005. In addition, he played for Chile B against England B on 10 February 1998. Chile won by 2-1. As a curiosity, he popularized a striking play what was called ''Culebra'' (Snake) due to the fact he threw himself to the ground to block Ronaldo in the 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification match against Brazil on 6 June 2004. Managerial career While he was a player of Coquimbo Unido, he studied at the INAF (Football National Institute) and graduated as a Football Manager in 2014. So, he has coached the Youth Teams of both Coquimbo Unido and Cobreloa. In April 2021, he also was confirmed as the coach of Cobreloa women's team. Honours Club ;Cobreloa * Primera División de Chile (3): 2003 Apertura, 2003 Clausura, 2004 Clausura ;Deportes Iquique * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Unión Española
Club Unión Española S.A.D.P. is a professional association football, football club based in the Independencia, Chile, Independencia neighborhood, commune of Santiago, Chile. They currently participate in the Chilean Primera Division, Primera División de Chile. It has a branch of women's football, and competes in national tournaments with its lower categories. Acclaimed as one of the ''four great'' of Chilean football, it is one of the longest-lived teams in the country. Unión Española has won Primera División de Chile, Primera División seven times, behind Colo-Colo (31), Club Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Chile (18), Club Deportivo Universidad Católica, Universidad Católica (14) and Cobreloa (8), as well as winning two Copa Chile titles. On the South American stage Unión has participated nine times in Copa Libertadores, one time in Copa Sudamericana and one time in the Copa Ganadores de Copa. Unión also was runner-up in the Copa Libertadores of Copa Libertadores ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Luis Sierra (footballer, Born 1968)
José Luis "Coto" Sierra Pando (born 5 December 1968) is a Chilean football coach and former player. He is the manager of Al-Wehda. Playing in the midfield, he retired in 2009, and one year later he became the coach of his long-time team Unión Española. He studied in the ''Colegio Hispano Americano'', which belongs to Spanish residents in Chile. In 2015, he became the new coach of Colo-Colo. Club career Unión Española Sierra made his debut in professional soccer with Unión Española on November 1988 against the Universidad de Chile. After two solid campaigns with Unión Española, Sierra was transferred to Real Valladolid in Spain. However, during Sierra's short time in Spain, the team had economic problems which caused him to return to Unión Española. After more success he made his debut with the Chile national team. Sierra won the Copa Chile with Unión Española in 1992 and 1993. Colo-Colo After an unsuccessful stint in Brazil playing for São Paulo, he went on to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matías Fernández (footballer, Born 1986)
Matías Ariel Fernández Fernández (, born 15 May 1986) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays for Deportes La Serena as an attacking midfielder. He is known for his dribbling skills, also being a free kick specialist. After starting out at Colo-Colo, he spent several seasons with Villarreal, Sporting CP and Fiorentina, having moved to Europe in 2006. He also played professionally in Mexico and Colombia. Fernández was elected South American Footballer of the Year in 2006, and also appeared for the Chile national team in the 2010 World Cup and three Copa América tournaments, winning the 2015 edition of the latter tournament. Early life Fernández was born in the Caballito neighbourhood in Buenos Aires to Argentine mother Mirtha and Chilean father Humberto. He moved to La Calera, Chile, at the age of 4. Club career Colo-Colo Fernández began with the youth squads of Colo-Colo at the age of 12. His debut in the Primera División came on 1 August 2004 against Club U ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Audax Italiano
Audax Club Sportivo Italiano () is a Chilean football club based in La Florida. Founded in 1910, it plays in the Campeonato Nacional and has spent most of its history in the top tier of Chilean football. Audax has been national champions four times, joint sixth alongside Magallanes. The club also achieved two Copa Chile runners-up in 1981 and 1988. The club had their first major success in 1936, when they won the league tournament. During the 1940s, Audax won two leagues in 1946 and 1948, reaching a fourth in 1957. History The club was founded by Italian residents in Santiago, on November 30, 1910, as Audax Club Ciclista Italiano in the Alberto Caffi's hat store, and was originally focused in cycling. As football developed quickly in Santiago, in 1917 the club begun participating in that sport, and in 1922, when the popularity of football increased within Audax's supporters, the club changed its name to Audax Club Sportivo Italiano. In January 2007, the club was transformed i ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carlos Villanueva (footballer)
Carlos Andrés Villanueva Rolland (born 5 February 1986) is a Chilean football player who is currently playing for Magallanes in the Primera B de Chile. Club career Audax Italiano In the Copa Libertadores 2007, the left-footed playmaker was the hub of Audax Italiano. The team was not able to qualify for the knockout phase due to goal differential. Villanueva was rewarded with a call-up to Chile's Copa América 2007 squad. Blackburn Rovers On 17 July 2008, it was confirmed by Villanueva's agents and also former club that Villanueva would play for the Blackburn Rovers of the Premier League in England. He also confirmed this on 29 July, pending a work permit being issued. On 2 August, Villanueva completed his season-long loan move to Blackburn. The club had the option to make the deal permanent, at a pre-agreed fee. Villanueva also agreed terms to extend his contract for a further three years, if the option is exercised. On 27 August, Villanueva made his debut for Blackburn in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gary Medel
Gary Alexis Medel Soto (; born 3 August 1987) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays for Italian club Bologna and the Chile national team as a centre-back and a defensive midfielder. Medel has played club football with several teams in numerous countries, starting out with Chilean side Universidad Católica, and later playing for Argentine side Boca Juniors, Spanish side Sevilla, Premier League side Cardiff City, and Italian side Inter Milan, before moving to Beşiktaş in Turkey in 2017. He then moved back to Italy and joined Bologna in 2019. A full Chilean international with over 150 caps since 2007, Medel has represented the nation at two FIFA World Cups, five Copa América tournaments, and one edition of the FIFA Confederations Cup. He was part of the squad that won the 2015 Copa América (where he was named in the Team of the tournament) and the Copa América Centenario. He was also included in the squads that finished fourth at the 2019 Copa América, and w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
