Moisés Fermín Villarroel Ayala (born 12 February 1976) is a Chilean

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and former player who played as a

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Career

He played for Colo-Colo, where he was part of the 2006 apertura, 2006 clausura, 2007 apertura, 2007 clausura, 2008 clausura championship teams. Now he is the captain of

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club where he started his football

career. Villarroel's international debut came in a match against

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, which Chile won 6–0 on April 29, 1997. He has capped 34 times and scored 1 goal for the Chile national team between 1997 and 2005, including four games at the

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. He has also represented his country in four

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tournaments. Villaroel has mainly played as a right sided defender and defensive midfielder. He has been described as a tough defensive minded player with a high work-rate.

Coaching career

Santiago Wanderers

Short after retiring in 2014, Villarroel started coaching the youth teams at Santiago Wanderers. On 21 March 2018, Villarroel was appointed as the new manager of

. Until December 2021, he was the manager of

' youth setup.

Personal life

He is the father of the professional footballer Martín Villarroel who is a product of the

youth system.

Honours

Club

;Santiago Wanderers * Segunda División de Chile (1):

1995 1995 was designated as: * United Nations Year for Tolerance * World Year of Peoples' Commemoration of the Victims of the Second World War This was the first year that the Internet was entirely privatized, with the United States government ...

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(1):

2001 The year's most prominent event was the September 11 attacks against the United States by al-Qaeda, which Casualties of the September 11 attacks, killed 2,977 people and instigated the global war on terror. The United States led a Participan ...

;Colo-Colo *

(5): 2006-A, 2006-C, 2007-A, 2007-C, 2008-C

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* 1976 births Living people People from Viña del Mar Chilean men's footballers Chile men's international footballers Men's association football midfielders Santiago Wanderers footballers Colo-Colo footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players 1997 Copa América players 1998 FIFA World Cup players 1999 Copa América players 2001 Copa América players 2004 Copa América players Chilean football managers Santiago Wanderers managers Primera B de Chile managers 20th-century Chilean sportsmen {{Chile-footy-midfielder-stub