Gustavo Ernesto Huerta Araya (born 15 October 1957) is a Chilean former

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and

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. He is currently the head coach of

Cobresal Club de Deportes Cobresal or simply Cobresal, is a Chilean football club based in El Salvador, Atacama, a Chilean mining camp, and participates in Campeonato Nacional. The team was founded on 5 May 1979, and the name of the club comes from the l ...

Managerial career

Before the

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, Huerta was the assistant of the Head Coach of

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

Nelson Acosta Nelson Bonifacio Acosta López, nicknamed ''Pelado Acosta'' (''Bald'' Acosta), (born 12 June 1944 in Paso de los Toros, Uruguay) is a former Uruguayan-born Chilean football manager and footballer. He became a naturalized Chilean citizen in 1984 ...

. He managed Chile B in a

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against England B on February 10, 1998. Chile won by 2–1.

Personal life

Both his father, Gustavo Sr., and his younger brothers, Fernando and Carlos, were professional footballers. All of them played for

Deportes Ovalle Club Deportes Ovalle is a Chilean football club who currently play in the fourth level of Chilean football, the Segunda División Profesional de Chile. The club's stadium is the Estadio Municipal de Ovalle. Their main rivals are Deportes La Se ...

among other clubs. Also, his son Gustavo is a sport journalist who has worked for

Televisión Nacional de Chile Televisión Nacional de Chile (TVN) is a Chilean public service broadcaster. It was founded by order of President Eduardo Frei Montalva and it was launched nationwide on 18 September 1969. Since then, the company has been reorganized on several ...

and ESPN Chile.

Honours

Player

;Cobresal *

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: 1987

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* 1957 births Living people People from Ovalle Chilean footballers Chile international footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Deportes Ovalle footballers Ferroviarios footballers C.D. Antofagasta footballers Cobresal footballers Association football midfielders Chilean football managers Chilean Primera División managers Primera B de Chile managers Bolivian Primera División managers Cobresal managers Deportes La Serena managers Chile national football team managers Club Bolívar managers Universidad de Chile managers Cobreloa managers Santiago Wanderers managers Coquimbo Unido managers Deportes Iquique managers Deportes Antofagasta managers Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Bolivia Expatriate football managers in Bolivia {{chile-footy-bio-stub