Rodrigo Antonio Pérez Albornoz (born 19 August 1973) is a former Chilean

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who played as

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. His last professional club was

Deportes Iquique Club de Deportes Iquique S.A.D.P. is a Chilean professional football club based in Iquique, currently playing in the Chilean Primera División. Founded in 1978, the club's home stadium is the Estadio Tierra de Campeones, which has a 13,171 capac ...

Club career

Pérez began his football career at his professional hometown club O'Higgins, making his professional debut aged 19, being promoted to the first adult team by the coach

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in the 1993 season, then moving to

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in 1997, after three successful seasons at

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. He has spent the most time in

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playing for

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, where he was capped in 137 matches and scored 15 goals. He also spent time with the Peruvian club

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International career

He made his debut for the Chilean national squad in 1995.

Coaching career

He began his career as the coach of the team of (National Football Institute) and then he became the manager of

in 2018 in the

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. He arrived to the mining club along with the former players Nelson Tapia and Eduardo Fournier. Next, he coached C.D. Rancagua Sur in the Tercera A, the fourth level of the Chilean football system league, from 2019 to 2020. In 2025, he was appointed the manager of Deportes Rancagua in the Chilean Tercera B.

Honours

Player

;Cobreloa *

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(3): 2003 Apertura, 2003 Clausura, 2004 Clausura ;Alianza Lima *

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: 2006 Descentralizado ;Deportes Iquique *

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2010 The year saw a multitude of natural and environmental disasters such as the 2010 Haiti earthquake, the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and the 2010 Chile earthquake. The 2009 swine flu pandemic, swine flu pandemic which began the previous year ...

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;Chile *

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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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Rodrigo Pérez
at Football-Lineups * 1973 births Living people Footballers from Rancagua Chilean men's footballers Chile men's international footballers Chilean expatriate men's footballers O'Higgins F.C. footballers Santiago Wanderers footballers C.D. Cobreloa footballers C.F. Pachuca players Club Alianza Lima footballers Unión Española footballers Deportes Concepción (Chile) footballers Deportes Iquique footballers Chilean Primera División players Liga MX players Peruvian Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Peru Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Peru 1995 Copa América players 2004 Copa América players Men's association football defenders Chilean football managers C.D. Cobreloa managers Primera B de Chile managers 20th-century Chilean sportsmen {{Chile-footy-defender-stub