Bryan Alfonso Cortés Carvajal (born 19 August 1991), known as Bryan Cortés, is a Chilean former footballer who played as a

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Career

A product of

Cobreloa Club de Deportes Cobreloa S.A.D.P. (), commonly referred to as Cobreloa, is a professional Chilean football league system, Chilean football club based in Calama, Chile, Calama, Región de Antofagasta, Chile. They compete in the Primera B de Ch ...

youth system, he signed with

Universidad de Chile The University of Chile () is a public research university in Santiago Santiago (, ; ), also known as Santiago de Chile (), is the capital and largest city of Chile and one of the largest cities in the Americas. It is located in the co ...

in 2013, being compared to the Chile international

Charles Aránguiz Charles Mariano Aránguiz Sandoval (; born 17 April 1989) is a Chilean professional Association football, footballer who plays as a midfielder for Club Universidad de Chile, Universidad de Chile. With his former club Club Universidad de Chile, ...

due to his playing style. After playing for

Deportes Recoleta Club Deportes Recoleta is an association football club of Chile of the commune of Recoleta, situated in the town of Santiago. It was the champion of the Tercera División B in 2015 and the champion of the Segunda Division of Chile in 2021 pla ...

in the 2022 season and having no offers, he retired at the beginning of 2023. However, he joined club Eléctrico Refinería from Calama for the 2023 Copa Chile alongside the former professional footballers and Nicolás Dávila.

Post-retirement

Subsequently, his retirement from playing, Cortés began to study

Industrial engineering Industrial engineering (IE) is concerned with the design, improvement and installation of integrated systems of people, materials, information, equipment and energy. It draws upon specialized knowledge and skill in the mathematical, physical, an ...

. He is also a Heavy vehicle and mobile equipment Technician and began to work at

Radomiro Tomic mine The Radomiro Tomic mine is an open pit mine that extracts copper oxide minerals at above sea level in the Andes mountains near to Chuquicamata mine and Calama in northern Chile's Antofagasta Region. Although this deposit was discovered in the 19 ...

Honours

Universidad de Chile *

Chilean Primera División The Chilean Primera División () is a professional association football league in Chile and the highest level of the Chilean football league system. Founded in 1933, it is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP). The l ...

: 2014 Apertura

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* * 1991 births Living people People from El Loa Province Footballers from Antofagasta Region Chilean men's footballers 21st-century Chilean sportsmen C.D. Cobreloa footballers Club Universidad de Chile footballers Santiago Wanderers footballers Deportes La Serena footballers Unión San Felipe footballers Deportes Melipilla footballers Deportes Recoleta footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Men's association football midfielders {{Chile-footy-midfielder-stub