Carlos Manuel Cortés Barreiro (born 17 September 2001) is a Colombian footballer who plays as a striker for Internacional Palmira.

Club career

A striker from the

América de Cali América de Cali S. A., best known as América de Cali or América, is a Colombian professional football club based in Cali. It competes in the Categoría Primera A, the top-flight league of Colombian football. The team plays its home games at ...

youth system, Cortés made his professional debut with them in a 1–0 loss against

Deportes Tolima Club Deportes Tolima S.A., commonly known as Deportes Tolima, or simply as Tolima, is a Colombian professional football club based in Ibagué, Tolima Department, that competes in the Categoría Primera A. Founded in 1954, the club has won the C ...

on 26 September 2020. Later, he was loaned out to Fortaleza CEIF (2022) and

Cortuluá Cortuluá, officially named Cortuluá Fútbol Club S. A. and previously known as Corporación Club Deportivo Tuluá for short, was a Colombian football club from Tuluá, Valle del Cauca Department. It was founded in 1967 and last played in Categ ...

(2023) in his homeland and

Santiago Wanderers Club de Deportes Santiago Wanderers is a football club based in Valparaíso, a founding member of the Chilean Football Federation. Their home ground, Estadio Elías Figueroa Brander, is in the north-west of the city. Wanderers have played their ...

in the

Primera B de Chile Campeonato Primera B () is the second tier in the Chilean football league system, and is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional. It was established in 1952 as ''Segunda División'', and later renamed in 1996 to the current n ...

. In 2024, Cortés signed with Internacional Palmira, the club that replaced Cortulúa in the Colombian football, and subsequently he was loaned out to

in the top level .

International career

Cortés represented Colombia at under-23 level in the

2023 Pan American Games The 2023 Pan American Games (), officially the XIX Pan American Games () and commonly known as Santiago 2023, were an international multi-sport event governed by the Panam Sports Organization, held in Santiago, Chile from 20 October to 5 Novem ...

, friendlies against

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and the 2024 Pre-Olympic Tournament.

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