Nelson Antonio Tapia Ríos (born 22 September 1966) is a former Chilean

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and current

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of Ecuadorian club Olmedo.

International career

He made his debut for the Chile national team in 1994 against

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. After his last match thus far, a 0–5 loss against Brazil in 2005, the tally is at 73

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. He played all four games for Chile at the

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, and he also won an Olympic bronze medal with Chile at the

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Managerial career

While he was studying at the

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(National Football Institute) to become a football manager, he worked as a goalkeeping coach of C.D. Universidad Católica at under-10 level and as the coach of the Molina football team, in his birthplace. In addition to this, he worked as coach at school and university level and as the Technical Director of both

Unión Temuco Club Deportivo Unión Temuco was a Chilean professional football club based in Temuco, La Araucanía Region. The club played at the Chilean Primera División B, Primera B, the second tier of the Chilean football, until 2013 when it was folded. The ...

and Colchagua. In 2015, he worked as a goalkeeping coach of Chile U17 and next he became the manager of

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in the third category of the Chilean football. After a time as an assistant coach in

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, in 2019 he moved to

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and joined

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as a goalkeeping coach. Next he joined Guayaquil Sport as manager, winning the 2020 Segunda Categoría. In 2021 season, he won again the same title along with Libertad FC Tapia was sacked by Libertad on 22 September 2022. In December 2022, he signed with in the Ecuadorian third division. In February 2023, he switched to Olmedo in the

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Personal life

He is nicknamed ''Simpson'' because during his career he wore a hair style similar to cartoon character

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Honours

Player

Club

;Universidad Católica *

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(1): 1994 Copa Interamericana *

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(1): 1995 Copa Chile ;Cobreloa *

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(2): 2003 Apertura, 2003 Clausura ;Santos *

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(1): 2004

International

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: in

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Manager

;Guayaquil Sport *

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(1):

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;Libertad *

(1):

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