Julián Israel Alfaro Gaete (born 2 September 2001) is a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

an footballer who plays as a

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for

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side

Everton de Viña del Mar Everton de Viña del Mar is a Football in Chile, Chilean football club based in the city of Viña del Mar. The club was founded 24 June 1909 after a group of British Chilean, Anglo-Chilean teenagers formed a football club and named it after th ...

on loan from

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Club career

Born in

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, Alfaro was with the football academy of his hometown, Escuela de Fútbol Municipal de Quinta Normal, since he was four years old before joining the

youth system. The top goalscorer of the under-19 team, he was on the bench in the

match against

Unión La Calera Unión La Calera is a Chilean football club based in La Calera, Chile. The club competes in the Primera División de Chile. It was founded as Club de Deportes La Calera on 26 January 1954, after the merger of three teams from the city: ''Condor' ...

on 29 September 2018. Since 2019, he was loaned to

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until the end of the 2021 season, being finally transferred in the 2022 season. He has taken part of a successful stint of Magallanes, winning three consecutive titles: the 2022 Primera B, getting the promotion to the Chilean top division, the

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, qualifying for the

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, and the

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versus

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. In 2023, he became the

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in place of

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. Alfaro returned to Universidad de Chile for the 2025 season. He was loaned out to

for the second half of the year.

International career

Alfaro has taken part of training microcycles of the Chile senior team with the coaches

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and

Martín Lasarte Martín Bernardo Lasarte Arróspide (born 20 March 1961) is a Uruguayan former footballer who played as a defender, and recently the manager of Nacional Montevideo. He represented five teams in his country, and also had a three-and-a-half-yea ...

. He also has been with the national team at both the under-20 and the under-23 level. He received his first call up for the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against

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and

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in September 2023. He was included in the final squad for the

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, where Chile won the silver medal. In 2024, he took part in the Pre-Olympic Tournament.

Honours

Magallanes *

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 ...

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Supercopa de Chile The Supercopa de Chile (''Supercup of Chile'') is an annual one-match football official competition in Chile organised by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP). This competition serves as the season opener and is played between t ...

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Chile U23 *

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Silver Medal:

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Alfaro, Julian 2001 births Living people Footballers from Santiago, Chile Chilean men's footballers 21st-century Chilean sportsmen Club Universidad de Chile footballers Deportes Magallanes footballers Everton de Viña del Mar footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Men's association football forwards People from Santiago Province, Chile Chile men's youth international footballers Footballers at the 2023 Pan American Games Medalists at the 2023 Pan American Games Pan American Games silver medalists in football Pan American Games silver medalists for Chile Pan American Games footballers for Chile