Gerardo Enrique Silva Díaz (born 11 January 1962) is a Chilean football

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, currently in charge of

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Career

Born in

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, Chile, Silva is a former amateur football player and current football manager who began his career in amateur clubs at the second half 1980s. He has coached at all categories of the Chilean football, but he is better known for getting promotion to

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with O'Higgins in the 2005 season and coached them again in the 2009 Clausura of the top level, replacing the Argentine coach

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. At amateur level, he won the Campeonato Nacional de Selecciones in 1996. He also won the Campeonato Nacional de Novatos, a youth championship, with in 2010. In addition to O'Higgins, he has led many teams in Chilean football, such as Colchagua, (also Rengo Unido),

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, among others. He has won league titles of the

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, getting promotion to the Primera B, with both Colchagua in and Deportes Copiapó in . He also got promotion to the 2013 Primera B with Deportes Copiapó in 2012 and to the with Chimbarongo FC. In 2018, he had a stint in Bolivia with

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of the becoming the runner-up and getting promotion to the

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. After this season, he has been sounded out to led another Bolivian teams such as San José. In 2022, he assumed as coach of Colchagua.

Other works

In 2006 he assumed the management of amateur football integration for the

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of O'Higgins FC. As an author, he published an autobiographical book called ''Bendita Pasión'' (Blessed Passion) in November 2018. In 2020, he served as an motivational instructor for the education department of the Municipality of Rengo, with support of psychologists, in the context of

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. Silva works as a columnist for both digital sports media ''El Ágora'' and ''Primera B Chile'', where he also performs as a commentator.

Personal life

He is nicknamed ''Yayo Silva'', an affective form of Eduardo.

Honours

Rengo (city team) * Campeonato Nacional de Selecciones: 1996 Colchagua *

: Deportes Copiapó *

: Rengo Unido (youth) * Campeonato Nacional Novatos: 2010

References

External links

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