Luis Alejandro Peña Sanhueza (born June 30, 1979) is a Chilean former
footballer
A football player or footballer is a sportsperson who plays one of the different types of football. The main types of football are association football, American football, Canadian football, Australian rules football, Gaelic football, rugby le ...
who played as a
midfielder
A midfielder is an outfield position in association football.
Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in that case known as defensive midfielders. As central midfielders often go across boundarie ...
.
Career
Peña joined
Huachipato youth ranks at the age of sixteen and made his professional debut in a match against
Palestino at the age of nineteen thanks to the coach .
After a brief stint with
Santiago Morning in 2008, he joined
Lota Schwager
Lota Schwager is a Chilean professional team based in Coronel that currently play in Tercera A (fourth-tier).
History
Following the merger between Federico Schwager and Minas Lota (teams that competed in Campeonato Regional de Concepción ...
in the same year.
He also played for
Deportes La Serena in second half 2008.
In 2010, he moved to Indonesia thanks to a Chilean colleague and joined
PSM Makassar. After six months with the club, he switched to
Gresik United, where he scored ten goals and became the historical goalscorer for the club at that time.
He also played for
PSMS Medan and
Persib Bandung.
Post-retirement
He has served as coach in the
Huachipato youth ranks.
Saludos Acereros
Huachipato FC on Facebook
References
External links
*
Luis Peña
at playmakerstats.com
*
1979 births
Living people
People from Arauco Province
Footballers from Biobío Region
Chilean men's footballers
Chilean expatriate men's footballers
Huachipato FC footballers
Santiago Morning footballers
Lota Schwager footballers
Deportes La Serena footballers
PSM Makassar players
Gresik United F.C. players
PSMS Medan players
Persib Bandung players
Chilean Primera División players
Primera B de Chile players
Indonesian Premier Division players
Liga 1 (Indonesia) players
Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia
Expatriate men's footballers in Indonesia
Men's association football midfielders
Chilean football managers
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