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Juan Carreño (Chilean footballer)

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Juan Carreño
Personal information
Full name Juan Enrique Carreño López
Date of birth (1968-11-16) November 16, 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth San Fernando, Chile
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Colo-Colo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1987–1989 Colo-Colo 3 (0)
1987Unión San Felipe (loan)
1987Deportes Linares (loan)
1988Colchagua (loan)
1989Ñublense (loan)
1990 Naval
1991 Cobresal
1991 Coquimbo Unido
1992–1993 Everton
1994 Unión Española 8 (5)
1994 UNAM
1995 Cobreloa 1 (1)
1996–1997 Deportes Concepción 24 (9)
1998 Huachipato
1999 Deportes Iquique
1999 Everton
2000 Santiago Morning
2003 Deportes Concepción
International career
1987 Chile U20 2 (0)
1993–1998 Chile 10 (1)
Managerial career
2009–2011 Colchagua
2013 General Velásquez
2015 General Velásquez
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan Enrique Carreño López (born September 16, 1968) is a retired Chilean football forward. He was nicknamed Candonga.

Player career

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Club career

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A product of Colo-Colo youth system,[1] Carreño played mostly of his career in Chilean clubs, but in 1994 he had short spell in Mexican team Pumas de la UNAM.[2] He was known for his hard temper, which was noted in a match between Huachipato and Provincial Osorno in September 1998, where he punched the rival goalkeeper Hernán Caputto.[3]

National team

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Carreño was part of the Chile national under-20 football team that finished fourth in the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship, played in Chile.[4]

For the adult team, Carreño made 10 appearances between 1993 and 1998.[5] Carreño scored a goal against Bolivia in the 1998 World Cup qualifiers that qualified Chile for the 1998 World Cup.[6] However, he was not selected for the final squad that went to France.

Coaching career

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From 2009 to 2011, he was the head coach of Colchagua in the Chilean Tercera A.[7] In 2012 he assumed as the coach of General Velásquez and returned to the club in 2015, when he had to leave the charge because of health issues.[8]

Personal life

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He is well-known by his nickname Candonga, due to his liking for parties and nocturnal life.[9]

References

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  1. ^ Reyes, Luis (18 April 2019). "El récord histórico del fútbol chileno que acecha Vidangossy" (in Spanish). AS Chile. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  2. ^ "Los nueve chilenos que han jugado en Pumas UNAM" (in Spanish). AS Chile. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  3. ^ YouTube - Candonga Carreño - repartiendo combos en Osorno
  4. ^ "El cuarto lugar de la selección Sub 20 en el Mundial de 1987". El Tipógrafo (in Spanish). 27 July 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Juan Carreño". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 August 2022.
  6. ^ @LaRoja (16 November 2020). "Con los goles de Rodrigo Barrera, Marcelo Salas y Juan Carreño" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 August 2022 – via Twitter.
  7. ^ "Juan Carreño renunció como técnico de Deportes Colchagua". El Tipógrafo (in Spanish). 16 May 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  8. ^ Salas, Cristian (24 October 2015). "El abrupto final de la aventura como DT de Candonga Carreño" (in Spanish). AS Chile. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
  9. ^ "Los archivos secretos del "Candonga" Carreño: "yo no sirvo para ser Zamorano"". The Clinic (in Spanish). 3 July 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
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