Jaime Augusto Pizarro Herrera (born 2 March 1964) is a football manager and former

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player who played 53 times for the Chile national team between 1987 and 1993. He currently serves as Sub-secretary of the National Institute of Sports of the government of

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. At club level, he played as a

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, principally for the Chilean club

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, the team where he was crowned champion both as a player and as a coach. A teacher of

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of profession, he has served director of the same career in the Central University of Chile.

Club career

As a Player

He began his career in

making his professional debut in March 1982 in a friendly game against Olimpia. He played for

until 1993. For this team he won 6 national championships, 5 Apertura cups and 3 international titles, including the

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. Later on his career he played for

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and

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, he came back for a brief period to

in 1994 to later play for

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where he played for the entire year

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. Finally he returned to

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to play for

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and Universidad Católica, where he won a seventh league championship in 1997.

As a Coach

He began his career as a coach in

where he won a championship and two runner-up trophies, with the club in bankruptcy. After he left the "cacique" team, he has coached teams like

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and

, achieving with the later one to keep the category of a first division team after a terrible start of the competition in 2006.

As Sub-secretary

On July 30 of 2007 The

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named Jaime Pizarro Sub-secretary of the National Institute of Sports (''Chiledeportes''), after the resignation of Ricardo Vorpahl.

International career

Pizarro made his debut for the national senior squad on May 6, 1986, against

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. He obtained 53 caps, and played the

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final. His last international game was against the national team from

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. His only goal came on June 19, 1989, in a

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against Uruguay (2-2) in

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Managerial career

He assumed as the coach of

for the 2002 season after being the Sport Manager of Universidad Católica and the assistant coach of Pedro García in the Chile national team. In 2005, he moved to

and, in 2007, he joined

. Next, he performed as Sport Manager and Director of

(2011–2012) and

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(2018). In 2021, he returned to coaching and joined Barnechea in the

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until July of the same year.

Personal life

He is the father of the professional footballer Vicente Pizarro.

Honours

Club

;Colo-Colo *

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1986 The year 1986 was designated as the International Year of Peace by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** Aruba gains increased autonomy from the Netherlands by separating from the Netherlands Antilles. **Spain and Portugal ente ...

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1990 File:1990 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The 1990 FIFA World Cup is played in Italy; The Human Genome Project is launched; Voyager I takes the famous Pale Blue Dot image- speaking on the fragility of Humankind, humanity on Earth, Astroph ...

1991 File:1991 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: Boris Yeltsin, elected as Russia's first president, waves the new flag of Russia after the 1991 Soviet coup d'état attempt, orchestrated by Soviet hardliners; Mount Pinatubo erupts in the Phil ...

1993 File:1993 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The Oslo I Accord is signed in an attempt to resolve the Israeli–Palestinian conflict; The Russian White House is shelled during the 1993 Russian constitutional crisis; Czechoslovakia is peace ...

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1982 Events January * January 1 – In Malaysia and Singapore, clocks are adjusted to the same time zone, UTC+8 (GMT+8.00). * January 13 – Air Florida Flight 90 crashes shortly after takeoff into the 14th Street bridges, 14th Street Bridge in ...

1985 The year 1985 was designated as the International Youth Year by the United Nations. Events January * January 1 ** The Internet's Domain Name System is created. ** Greenland withdraws from the European Economic Community as a result of a ...

1988 File:1988 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The oil platform Piper Alpha explodes and collapses in the North Sea, killing 165 workers; The USS Vincennes (CG-49) mistakenly shoots down Iran Air Flight 655; Australia celebrates its Australian ...

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;Universidad Católica *

(1): 1997 Apertura

Individual

* Best defensive midfielder in the world for the magazine

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in 1987-1988 * Best Chilean professional footballer for circle of Chilean Sports Journalists in 1991-1992 * Award for outstanding football career by the

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References

External links

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Argentine Primera statistics
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