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Mariano Puyol

Mariano Puyol

Chilean footballer (born 1960)


Mariano Patricio Puyol Correa (born 3 June 1960) is a Chilean football manager and former professional footballer who played as a left winger or attacking midfielder for clubs in Chile and Mexico.

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Club career

A product of Universidad de Chile youth system, he played for the club in four steps, making 281 and scoring 75 goals in total.[1] In his last step he performed as team captain.[2] Along with the club he won the 1979 Copa Polla Gol.[3]

In Chile, he also played for Deportes Concepción,[4] Ñublense, Unión San Felipe, Deportes La Serena and Rangers de Talca.[3]

In Mexico, he played for Cruz Azul and Tampico Madero, where the coach was the Chilean Carlos Reinoso.[5] In Tampico Madero, he coincided with his compatriot Carlos Soto.[6]

International career

Puyol made an appearance for the Chile national team in a friendly match versus Brazil on 7 May 1986, scoring a goal.[7]

Coaching career

Following his retirement, Puyol worked for the Universidad de Chile youth system for 13 years between 1997 and 2010.[8] From 2011 to 2013, he was in charge of coaching Chile at under-15 level. In 2013 he also assumed as coach of Chile at under-17 level, being released in April.[9]

In 2014 he had an experience in the Chilean Tercera B by coaching club Gendarmería de Chile.[10]

In 2019 he returned to Universidad de Chile, coaching at under-12 level until July 2021.[11]

Personal life

His father, Pablo, was a footballer who played for Santiago Morning in the 1940s.[12]

Strongly bound to Club Universidad de Chile, he has been a member of Más Allá del Horizonte (Beyond The Horizon), the association of former players.[13] He has also taken part in friendly matches of historical players of Universidad de Chile alongside former players such as Sergio Vargas, Cristián Castañeda, Mauricio Aros, Víctor Bascuñán, among others.[14]

Honours

Player

Universidad de Chile


References

  1. "¿Quién heredará la jineta en 2022? Los siete capitanes que tuvo la U desde Luis Musrri". www.encancha.cl (in Spanish). 5 January 2022. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  2. Cavieres, Cristián Alejandro (21 April 2020). "Mariano Puyol recordó la sorpresa que le hizo el plantel de Universidad de Chile en 1994". ADN (in Spanish). ADN Radio Chile. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  3. Mariano Puyol y Fernando Cavalleri (QEPD) RetrofutbolChile on Facebook (in Spanish)
  4. "El pie de Mariano Puyol". HISTORIAS DEL FÚTBOL (in Spanish). 18 September 2016. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  5. "Club Deportivo TAMPICO". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 7 May 2019. Retrieved 26 October 2022.
  6. "Mariano Puyol". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  7. "Mariano Puyol fue despedido tras eliminación de la Roja Sub-17 de Sudamericano". EL DÍNAMO (in Spanish). 12 April 2013. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  8. Torres, Juan Antonio (4 May 2014). "Gendarmería consiguió el primer triunfo oficial de su historia". deportereyydereyes.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  9. Madariaga, Carlos (6 July 2021). "Mariano Puyol dejó de dirigir a la sub 12 de Universidad de Chile y criticó a Azul Azul". ADN (in Spanish). ADN Radio Chile. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  10. ""POR EL CAMBIO DE COACH HA PERDIDO EL SANTIAGO MORNING"" (PDF). La Nación (in Spanish): 3–4. 9 August 1943. Retrieved 8 September 2022.
  11. Cordero, Bruno (26 August 2022). "Una más de Azul Azul: rompen compromiso con jugadores históricos de la U". Diario El Ágora (in Spanish). Retrieved 31 January 2024.
  12. "Históricos de Colo Colo ganaron a la "U" en cierre de aniversario regional". Soy Chile (in Spanish). 28 October 2018. Retrieved 31 January 2024.



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