Yanara Katherine Nicole Aedo Muñoz (born 5 August 1993) is a Chilean professional

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who plays as a

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for Spanish Campeonato Nacional Fútbol Femenino club

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and the Chile women's national team.

Club career

Aedo left

for American

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team

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in January 2015. She helped the club's reserve team win the 2015 USL W-League season championship, scoring twice in the 2–1 final win over Colorado Pride. In September 2016, Aedo transferred to Spain's Primera División club

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. On 27 June 2017, the Washington Spirit announced that they had re-signed Aedo. She was placed on waivers by the Spirit on 21 June 2018. On 13 July 2018 it was announced that Aedo was returning to

, the club she had played with from 2016 to 2017. She left the Spanish club at the end of the season. After stints with

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and

Rayo Vallecano Rayo Vallecano de Madrid, S.A.D. (), often abbreviated to Rayo (Spanish for "thunderbolt"), is a Spanish professional football club based in Madrid, in the neighbourhood of Vallecas. Rayo was founded on 29 May 1924, and currently compete in La Lig ...

, Aedo returned to Chile to rejoin Colo-Colo, with Chilean outlets confirming the news on 6 September 2022.

International career

In early September 2010, seventeen-year-old Aedo represented Chile at the

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. Later that month, she was named in

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's 20-player senior squad for the

2010 South American Women's Football Championship The 2010 South American Women's Football Championship ( es, Campeonato Sudamericano Femenino – Copa América de Selecciones) was the sixth edition of the South American Women's Football Championship, and acted as a qualifier for the 2011 FIFA Wom ...

in Ecuador. She scored the opening goal in Chile's 3–1 win over

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. Aedo scored three goals at the

2018 Copa América Femenina The 2018 Copa América Femenina was the eighth edition of the CONMEBOL Copa América Femenina (also referred to as the ''Copa América Femenina''), the quadrennial international football competition for women's national teams in South America af ...

, where Chile qualified to a FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time in its history.

International goals

''Scores and results list Chile's goal tally first''

References

External links

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Washington Spirit player profile

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Yanara Aedo
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at Txapeldunak.com 1993 births Living people People from Temuco Chilean women's footballers Women's association football forwards Colo-Colo (women) footballers Washington Spirit players Valencia CF Femenino players Sevilla FC (women) players Rayo Vallecano Femenino players USL W-League (1995–2015) players Primera División (women) players Chile women's international footballers 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup players Pan American Games competitors for Chile Footballers at the 2011 Pan American Games South American Games silver medalists for Chile South American Games medalists in football Competitors at the 2014 South American Games Chilean expatriate women's footballers Chilean expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate women's soccer players in the United States Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate women's footballers in Spain Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Olympic footballers of Chile {{Chile-women-footy-bio-stub