Juan Antonio Páez Cepeda (born 13 February 1950) is a Chilean

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and former footballer who played as a

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Playing career

Born 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 country's central valley and is the center of the Santiago Metropolitan Regi ...

, as a child Páez was with Juventud Universitaria and next he moved to Universidad Católica. After playing for Ferroviarios in

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, he played in the Primera División for

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Lota Schwager Lota Schwager Sports Club is a Chilean professional team based in Coronel that currently play in Tercera A (fourth-tier). History The Lota Schwafer Sports Club was founded on 10 May 1966 as a merge between the Federico Schwager Club (named a ...

, Cobreloa,

Regional Atacama Regional Atacama was a Chilean football (soccer), football club based in the city of Copiapó, Atacama Region. The club was founded in 1979, playing a total of six season at the Primera División of Chile, top level of Chilean football during its ...

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 ...

, Green Cross-Temuco and Deportes Concepción. With Palestino, he won the

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, making 6 appearances in the tournament. At league level, he made 71 appearances and scored 4 goals from 1973 to 1975. Lota Schwager, with Páez in the squad, got the best season in its history after reached the sixth place in the 1977 Primera División. At league level, he made 110 appearances and scored 7 goals from 1975 to 1979. He played for Cobreloa in 1980 and 1981, making 47 appearances and scoring 8 goals and winning the league title in 1980. In addition, he took part in the

1981 Copa Libertadores The 1981 Copa Libertadores was won by Flamengo of Brazil, who beat Cobreloa of Chile in the finals, without losing a match in their campaign on the way to win their first title.Flamengo Clube de Regatas do Flamengo (; ), more commonly referred to as simply Flamengo, is a Brazilian multi sports club based in Rio de Janeiro, in the neighborhood of Gávea. It was founded and named after the Flamengo, Rio de Janeiro, Flamengo n ...

. In his last years as footballer, he played in the Segunda División for

Curicó Unido Curicó Unido is a football club based in Curicó, Maule Region, Chile. They currently play in the Primera B de Chile, the second level of the Chilean football system. They are currently managed by Héctor Almandoz. History Curicó Unido was f ...

, Soinca Bata and Coquimbo Unido.

Coaching career

Páez mainly developed his career in Chile at both the

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and the

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divisions. San Antonio Unido was the club what he coached more times: 1998, 2000–01 and 2007. In the Primera División, he led

Deportes Melipilla Deportes Melipilla is a Chilean football club, based on Melipilla, a comune in the Santiago Metropolitan Region. It was founded on January 24, 1992, as a successor of ''Club Deportivo Soinca Bata''. The club has its classic rival, San Antonio Un ...

in 1993. Abroad, Páez had a stint with the Indonesian club

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(2003–04), saving it from the relegation to the lower division. In the club, he coached his compatriots Alejandro Tobar, Claudio Lizama, Julio Lopez and Angelo Espinosa.

Personal life

He is the younger brother of the Chilean former international footballer

Guillermo Páez Guillermo Alejandro Páez Cepeda (born 18 April 1945) is a former Chilean association football, footballer who played for 6 clubs of Chile and in the Chile national football team in the FIFA World Cup Germany 1974. Personal life He is the older ...

Honours

Player

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1975 It was also declared the ''International Women's Year'' by the United Nations and the European Architectural Heritage Year by the Council of Europe. Events January * January 1 – Watergate scandal (United States): John N. Mitchell, H. R. ...

Cobreloa * Primera División:

1980 Events January * January 4 – U.S. President Jimmy Carter proclaims a United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union, grain embargo against the USSR with the support of the European Commission. * January 6 – Global Positioning Sys ...

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Juan Páez
at MemoriaWanderers {{DEFAULTSORT:Paez, Juan 1950 births Living people Footballers from Santiago, Chile Chilean men's footballers Men's association football central defenders Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers Club Deportivo Ferroviarios footballers Club Deportivo Palestino footballers Lota Schwager footballers C.D. Cobreloa footballers C.D. Regional Atacama footballers Santiago Wanderers footballers Deportes Temuco footballers Deportes Concepción (Chile) footballers Curicó Unido footballers Deportes Melipilla footballers Coquimbo Unido footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Chilean football managers Chilean expatriate football managers Deportes Melipilla managers Provincial Osorno managers San Antonio Unido managers Deportes Iquique managers Deportes Linares managers Magallanes managers Persib Bandung managers Chilean Primera División managers Primera B de Chile managers Expatriate football managers in Indonesia Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Indonesia 20th-century Chilean sportsmen