Piero Alejandro Gárate Rojas (born 24 May 1992) is a Chilean professional

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who last played for

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as a

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Club career

A product of

Santiago Wanderers Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers is a football club based in Valparaíso, a founding member of the Chilean Football Federation. Their home ground, Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, is in the north-west of the city. Wanderers have played thei ...

youth system, he played for the team in both Primera B and Chilean Primera División. Then, he played for Deportes Concepción and Trasandino. From 2017 to 2019 he played abroad for both

Miramar Misiones Club Sportivo Miramar Misiones, usually known simply as Miramar Misiones is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. The club was formed from the merger of two clubs: Miramar (founded on October 17, 1915) and Misiones (founded on March 26 ...

in Uruguay and Presidente Hayes in Paraguay. In the 2020 season, he played for

Deportes Puerto Montt Club Deportes Puerto Montt is a Chilean football club based in the city of Puerto Montt, Los Lagos Region. The club was founded on May 6, 1983, and currently plays in the Primera B de Chile, the second division of the country. Their home games ar ...

, with whom Gárate has had legal issues since the club did not take responsibility for a serious injury that he suffered while he was a player of it. In 2021, he played for

San Marcos de Arica Club Deportivo San Marcos de Arica, also known as San Marcos, is a Chilean professional football club based in Arica, that is a current member of the Segunda División. The club was founded on February 14, 1978. Between 1978 and 2005, the club wa ...

. In 2022, he played for the

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club Los Jerrys, winning the national championship. In 2023, he moved to the United States to play for amateur clubs such as Borussia NOLA and Mesoamérica San Carlos FC, also taking part in the

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International career

Gárate represented Chile at under-15 level in the . Then he took part of the Chile U17 squad between 2008 and 2009. In addition, Gárate was a Chile under-20 international

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player, making appearances in the in Colombia.

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at MemoriaWanderers 1992 births Living people Footballers from Valparaíso Chilean men's footballers Chilean expatriate men's footballers Chile men's youth international footballers Santiago Wanderers footballers Deportes Concepción (Chile) footballers Trasandino de Los Andes footballers Miramar Misiones players Club Presidente Hayes footballers Deportes Puerto Montt footballers San Marcos de Arica footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Segunda División Profesional de Chile players Uruguayan Segunda División players Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Uruguay Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Paraguay Chilean expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's footballers in Uruguay Expatriate men's footballers in Paraguay Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Men's association football midfielders Chilean men's futsal players {{Chile-footy-midfielder-stub