Juan Gonzalo Lorca Donoso (born 15 January 1985) is a

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an former footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

Lorca began his career with Colo-Colo's youth squad when he turned twelve years old. He began as an attacking midfielder, but soon made the switch to forward. On July 7, 2004, Lorca made his professional debut against Universidad Católica in a Copa Sudamericana match, which ended in a 1–1 tie. However his first goal would not come until the following month against Cobreloa. In 2006, Lorca was loaned to Chilean club

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for both the apertura and clausura tournaments. He was capped 34 times and scored 11 times before returning to Colo-Colo for the 2007 Apertura tournament. After his return, he has only been a fringe player because the team already has prominent forwards. Lorca left Colo-Colo once again after the 2007 Apertura, this time to go to Europe to play for Dutch team Vitesse Arnhem, he then returned to Colo-Colo in mid-2008. Lorca signed in O'Higgins because he didn't have many chances to play in

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. In January 2010,

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signed the

an forward from

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for around 400,000 Euros on a three-and-a-half year deal. He returned for 6 months on loan from

to O'Higgins.

International career

Lorca has represented the Chile national team at the U-20, U-23, and senior levels. He took part in the 2005

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, which qualified for the

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in the

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. However, he did not make the trip to Europe due to injury. In 2006, he started to appear in friendly games with the adult squad and went on to be included by Nelson Acosta in the squad for 2007 Copa América despite not being a regular in his team at the time, Colo-Colo. He then got call ups from

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during the 2010 World Cup qualifying stage but remained an unused substitute in official games. However, he did play all the games in the 2008 Toulon Tournament, where he scored one goal. His only adult National Team goal to date was scored against Jamaica in a 2007 friendly which Chile won 1–0.

Personal life

Lorca does not like to be called Juan, and says his family and friends call him ''Gonzalo'' or ''Chalo''. He is the nephew of former Audax Italiano defender Benjamín Lorca, who also represented Chile at under-20 level in 1977.

Honours

Club

;Colo-Colo *

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: 2007 Apertura, 2008 Clausura

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Lorca, Juan Gonzalo 1985 births Living people Footballers from Santiago Chilean footballers Chilean expatriate footballers Chile international footballers Chile under-20 international footballers Association football forwards Colo-Colo footballers C.D. Huachipato footballers SBV Vitesse players O'Higgins F.C. footballers US Boulogne players Santiago Wanderers footballers S.D. Quito footballers Rangers de Talca footballers C.D. Antofagasta footballers Ñublense footballers Deportes Magallanes footballers Magallanes footballers Chilean Primera División players Eredivisie players Ecuadorian Serie A players Ligue 1 players Ligue 2 players Primera B de Chile players Chilean expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Chilean expatriate sportspeople in France Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands Expatriate footballers in France Expatriate footballers in Ecuador 2007 Copa América players