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Jaime Zapata (footballer)
Chilean footballer (born 1959) From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Jaime Sebastián Zapata Rodríguez (born 20 June 1959) is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper.
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Playing career
Born in Talcahuano, Chile, Zapata was with Club Orompello from Valparaíso as a youth player.[1] In 1977, he took part in the 1977 Amateur Youth National Championship in Pedro de Valdivia nitrate works [es] representing the Valparaíso city team alongside fellows such as Juan Carlos Letelier, later a Chile international, and Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, later the commander of the political-military organization Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front,[2] before joining the Everton de Viña del Mar youth system.[1]
Better known for having represented both Everton[3] and Santiago Wanderers,[4][5] classic rivals, in the first and the second divisions, he had an extensive career in his homeland. In the Primera División, he also played for Audax Italiano[6] and Deportes La Serena.[7] In the second level, he also played for Cobreandino,[1] Deportes Antofagasta[8] and Unión La Calera.[9] In addition, he represented Coquimbo Unido and San Luis de Quillota in the Copa Polla Gol in 1981 and 1986, respectively.[1]
With Everton, he won the 1984 Copa Polla Gol with Fernando Riera as coach.[10]
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Coaching career
As coach of men's teams, Zapata has led San Luis de Quillota,[11] Everton[12] and Lota Schwager.[13]
He also served as the assistant coach of Luis Santibáñez in Qatari club Al-Arabi in 2000.[14]
As coach of women's teams, Zapata is considered the driving force of the women's football for Santiago Wanderers [es] since 2008 and worked for over ten years at youth and senior level in the club.[15][16][17] In 2019, he assumed as coach of Colo-Colo.[18]
In addition, he led the women's team of the Valparaíso Region in the 2009 Binational Games.[19]
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