Miguel Ángel Estay Peña (born 2 May 1991) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a

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for clubs in Chile and Tahiti.

Football career

A left-footed

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from the

Deportes La Serena Club de Deportes La Serena S.A.D.P., is a Chilean football club based in the city of La Serena, Coquimbo Region. The club was founded 9 December 1955 and plays in the second division of the Chilean football league. Their home games are play ...

youth system, where he came at the age of 14, Estay played on loan at Deportes Linares in the 2012 Chilean Tercera A. He permanently played for Deportes La Serena between 2013 and 2014. From 2014 to 2016, he played for

Deportes Ovalle Club Deportes Ovalle is a Chilean football club who currently play in the fourth level of Chilean football, the Segunda División Profesional de Chile. The club's stadium is the Estadio Municipal de Ovalle. Their main rivals are Deportes La Se ...

in the Segunda División Profesional. In the second half of 2016, he switched to

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in the same city, winning the Tercera B league title and earning promotion. In 2017, he emigrated to French Polynesia and signed with

AS Central Sport Association Sportive Central Sport, is a association football, football club from Papeete, Tahiti, French Polynesia. Honours *Tahiti Ligue 1 **Champions (21): 1955, 1958, 1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1966, 1967, 1972, 1973, 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 197 ...

in the

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alongside César Castillo, after they were spotted by the President and the assistant coach and player of the team, Efraín Araneda, in

Ovalle Ovalle is a city in the Coquimbo Region of Chile, founded in 1831 as a settlement. It has a population of more than 113,000 people. The name Ovalle was chosen to honor to Chile's vice-president, José Tomás Ovalle. Ovalle is the capital of th ...

, Chile. In the squad, they coincided with his compatriots Sergio Sandoval and Diego Cifuentes, in addition to Araneda. All of them took part in the 2017 OFC Champions League, with Estay scoring against both

Madang FC Madang Football Club, formerly known as Madang Flying Fox, Madang Niupetro Fox or simply Madang Fox, was a Papua New Guinea soccer club, based in Madang. The club was one of the founding members of the Papua New Guinea National Soccer League in 20 ...

and

Lupe o le Soaga Lupe o le Soaga Soccer Club is a Samoan professional football club based in Tuanaimato. It currently plays in the Samoa National League. History Lupe o le Soaga was founded in 2011. The team played in the First Division, the second tier of the ...

. Back in Chile, he played for Colchagua in the Segunda División Profesional, his last club.

Personal life

Estay is a relative of the Chilean-Tahitian footballers Efraín Araneda Estay and Diego Araneda, father and son. He went on playing football at amateur level for clubs such as Fedenort from

Coquimbo Coquimbo is a port List of cities in Chile, city, Communes of Chile, commune and capital of the Elqui Province, located on the Pan-American Highway, in the Coquimbo Region of Chile. Coquimbo is situated in a valley south of La Serena, Chile, La S ...

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at Football-Lineups {{DEFAULTSORT:Estay, Miguel Angel 1991 births Living people Footballers from Santiago, Chile Chilean men's footballers Chilean expatriate men's footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Deportes La Serena footballers Tercera División de Chile players Deportes Linares footballers Provincial Ovalle footballers Segunda División Profesional de Chile players Deportes Ovalle footballers CD Colchagua footballers Expatriate men's footballers in French Polynesia Men's association football midfielders