Paulo Cézar Magalhães Lobos (born 14 December 1989) is a Chilean

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who plays as a full-back for

Deportes Rengo Club de Deportes Rengo is a Chilean professional football club based in the city of Rengo, O'Higgins Region. It was founded on March 18, 1984, and currently plays in the Segunda División Profesional de Chile. It plays its home games at the Guille ...

in the

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Early life

Magalhães was born in

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, Brazil to a Brazilian father, former footballer Osmar Magalhães, who had previously played in Chile for

Deportes Antofagasta Deportes Antofagasta is a Chilean football club based in the city of Antofagasta currently playing in the Primera B Of Chile. The club's home stadium is the Estadio Bicentenario Calvo y Bascuñán, which has a capacity of 21,178. History The c ...

where met his mother, Ximena Lobos, who is Chilean.

Club career

Deportes Antofagasta

Magalhães began in the youth system of Chilean club

. He played on the under 17 and under 19 sides in 2006 and 2007 respectively. In 2006, he made his debut with the adult side under coach Fernando Diaz.

Cobreloa

Magalhães signed for

Cobreloa Club de Deportes Cobreloa S.A.D.P. (), commonly referred to as Cobreloa, is a professional Chilean football league system, Chilean football club based in Calama, Chile, Calama, Región de Antofagasta, Chile. They compete in the Primera B de Ch ...

on a one-year contract in June 2008. He scored his first professional goal on May 2, 2009, against the next club he would sign with,

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 ...

Colo-Colo

Before the 2009 Clausura Tournament, Colo-Colo lost starting defender

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. In order to fill the void, Colo-Colo signed Magalhães to a one-year contract. He played regularly in his first tournament with the team and scored two goals and the team went on to win the 2009 Clausura Championship.

Returned to Antofagasta

In March 2021, Magalhães returned to Deportes Antofagasta by third time.

Deportes Rengo

After a year as a

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, Magalhães signed with

in the

for the 2025 season.

National team

Magalhães has participated on several different levels with the Chile national team. In 2008, he was part of the Chile Sub-18 side that won the

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tournament which was held in

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. After showing good form in Antofagasta in 2007 and with Cobreloa at the beginning of 2008, Magalhães was named to the Sub-23 national side coached by

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. The

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which took place in

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, saw he scored one goal against

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. The same year Magalhaes participated in the

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, in which Chile took a sub-19 team. Chile made it to the final losing to

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2–1. In 2009, Magalhães was part of the sub-20 Chile team in the

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held in

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, which was unable to surpass the group stage. In the same year, he again participated in an international tournament with the Sub-21 Chilean side in the

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. Finally Magalhães won an international tournament when the team was crowned champions. His good performance in the tournament caused him to sign with Chilean side Colo-Colo.

Personal life

From his paternal line – son of the Brazilian former professional footballer Osmar Magalhães and grandson of the goalkeeper of the same name – he is the nephew of Paulo César, a former footballer who won both the

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and the

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along with Grêmio and that worked as his agent. Also, he is the cousin of Rafael Magalhães and

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Honours

;Colo-Colo *

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(1): 2009 Clausura ;Universidad de Chile *

(3): 2011 Clausura, 2012 Apertura, 2014 Apertura *

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(2):

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(1):

;Internacional *

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(1):

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

;Chile U18 * João Havelange Tournament (1): 2008 ;Chile U21 *

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(1):

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Magalhaes, Paulo 1989 births Living people Footballers from Porto Alegre Sportspeople of Chilean descent Brazilian emigrants to Chile Naturalized citizens of Chile Chilean people of Brazilian descent Chilean men's footballers 21st-century Chilean sportsmen Chilean expatriate men's footballers Chile men's international footballers Chile men's under-20 international footballers Chile men's youth international footballers C.D. Antofagasta footballers FC Locarno players C.D. Cobreloa footballers Colo-Colo footballers Club Universidad de Chile footballers SC Internacional players Criciúma Esporte Clube players O'Higgins F.C. footballers Deportes Iquique footballers Deportes Rengo footballers Chilean Primera División players Swiss Challenge League players Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Primera B de Chile players Segunda División Profesional de Chile players Copa Sudamericana–winning players Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Men's association football fullbacks