Quemel Edgardo Farías Mancilla is a Chilean

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manager and former goalkeeper who played for clubs in Chile and Peru.

Playing career

As a youth player, Farías was with clubs Jesús Herrera and Estudiantes Unidos from La Serena, Chile. At senior level, he began his career with Aviación in the Chilean top division in 1980–81.Quemel Farías Mancilla
at LinkedIn From 1982 to 1987, he played for

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, a successful stint for the club at both national and international level. In 1986, he had a stint on loan at

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, also in the top division. After two seasons with

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 ...

in the second level, he moved to Peru and joined

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in 1990, coinciding with his compatriots Carlos González as teammate and

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as coach. Back in Chile, he played for

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 ...

before joining Deportes La Serena, with whom he spent five seasons between 1992 and 1996. His last club was

Deportes 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 ...

in 1997.

Coaching career

Farías graduated and specialized as a football manager at institutions such as the

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, (National Football Institute),

Catholic University of the North Catholic University of the North (Spanish language, Spanish: ''Universidad Católica del Norte'' (UCN)) is a university in Chile. It is part of the Chilean Traditional Universities. It is located in Antofagasta, Chile. The Catholic University of ...

, ESEFUL Institute in Peru, A.T.F.A. in Argentina, among others. As a coach of academies based in the Norte Grande of Chile and the Taltal city team, he is considered a discoverer of the

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top goalscorer Alexis Sánchez. In the first half of 2010s, he performed as coach of the Club Social y Deportivo Minera Escondida at the same time he worked for the

Minera Escondida Minera Escondida (which means 'hidden' in Spanish) is a mining company that operates two open pit copper mines in the Atacama Desert, 170 km southeast of Antofagasta in northern Chile. It is currently the highest producing copper mine in the ...

, a mining company. The next seasons, he worked as coach at the

Deportes Antofagasta Deportes Antofagasta is a Chilean football club based in the city of Antofagasta currently playing in the Campeonato Nacional. The club's home stadium is the Estadio Bicentenario Calvo y Bascuñán, which has a capacity of 21,178. History The ...

youth ranks and the . In 2022, he assumed as the head of the Deportes Antofagasta youth system.

Personal life

A charismatic goalkeeper, he is remembered by his moustache.

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Farias, Quemel Living people Chilean men's footballers Chilean expatriate men's footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players C.D. Aviación footballers C.D. Cobreloa footballers Audax Italiano footballers Deportes Ovalle footballers C.D. Cobresal footballers Deportes La Serena footballers San Marcos de Arica footballers Peruvian Primera División players Sporting Cristal footballers Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Peru Expatriate men's footballers in Peru Men's association football goalkeepers Chilean football managers Year of birth missing (living people)