Luis Alberto Pérez Franco (born 27 January 1969) is a Chilean former

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who played as a

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and current manager.

Playing career

Pérez joined

Colo-Colo Colo-Colo (), officially Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo, is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano, it competes in the Chilean Primera División, from which the club has never been ...

youth system in the late 1970s thanks to the former player Bernardo Bello, who met him playing in the Tabancura neighborhood in

Las Condes Las Condes is a commune of Chile located in Santiago Province, Santiago Metropolitan Region. The area is inhabited primarily by upper middle- to high-income families and is known in the Chilean collective consciousness as home to the country's e ...

, Santiago. After having little chance to play for the first team, he played on loan at

Deportes Valdivia Deportes Valdivia is a Chilean football club in the town of Valdivia, Chile. It currently plays in Segunda División, the third level of Chilean football. The club was founded on June 5, 1983, and re-founded on December 19, 2003. Honours *Chile ...

Deportes Linares Deportes Linares is a Chilean Football club, their home town is Linares in Chile and play in the 3rd tier of Chilean football, the Segunda División. The club was founded on November 19, 1955 as ''Lister Rossel'' (a famous local pediatrician and ...

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and

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. In his homeland, Pérez also played for

Coquimbo Unido Coquimbo Unido is a Chilean football club based in the city of Coquimbo. The club was founded in 1958 and has played in the Chilean Primera División since being promoted in 2022. Their home games are played at the Estadio Municipal Francisco Sán ...

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and

Unión San Felipe Unión San Felipe is a Chilean football club, their hometown is San Felipe in the V Región of Valparaíso. They play in the second level of the Chilean football league, the Primera B. The club was founded on October 16, 1956 with the merger ...

. Abroad, he played for the French clubs

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, AS Dompierroise and US Chanay. In the United States, he played for

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Coaching career

After graduating as

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at the (National Football Institute), he started a football academy with the Caja de Compensación (compensation fund) Gabriela Mistral what turned into a Colo-Colo Academy. Pérez worked at the

youth system for eight years, taking part of the training of players such as Vicente Pizarro, Luciano Arriagada, Luis Rojas, Alexander Oroz, among others. In 2017, he joined thanks to the former footballers Leonel Herrera and his son of the same name, winning the league title of the

Tercera B Tercera División B de Chile (Third Division B of Chile), is the fifth tier of Chilean football (soccer) in the Liga Chilena de Fútbol, and is organized by the Federación de Fútbol de Chile and the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Amateur de Ch ...

. Since then, he also won league titles of the Tercera A with

(2019, 2022) and Trasandino in 2021. Pérez was confirmed as coach of Deportes Linares for the 2023 season. In May 2023, he switched to

Provincial Ovalle Provincial Ovalle is a Chilean football club based in the city of Ovalle, Chile. They currently play in the Segunda División Profesional and have played in Copa Chile. Players Current squad '. Former players * ...

, becoming the Tercera A champions.

Honours

As manager

Municipal Santiago *

: 2017 Deportes Linares * Tercera A: * Tercera A: Trasandino * Tercera A: Provincial Ovalle * Tercera A:

References

External links

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Luis Pérez
EnElCamarín.cl * {{DEFAULTSORT:Perez, Luis 1969 births Living people Chilean men's footballers Footballers from Santiago, Chile Chilean expatriate men's footballers Colo-Colo footballers Deportes Valdivia footballers Deportes Linares footballers San Marcos de Arica footballers Deportes Magallanes footballers FC Lorient players Coquimbo Unido footballers Santiago Morning footballers Unión San Felipe footballers Western Mass Pioneers players Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Championnat National players USL Second Division players Chilean expatriate sportspeople in France Chilean expatriate sportspeople in the United States Expatriate men's footballers in France Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States Men's association football midfielders Chilean football managers Trasandino de Los Andes managers Provincial Ovalle managers Santiago City managers Segunda División Profesional de Chile managers People from Santiago Province, Chile 20th-century Chilean sportsmen