Personal information | |||
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Full name | Braulio Antonio Leal Salvo | ||
Date of birth | 22 November 1981 | ||
Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||
Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Magallanes (youth manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
Colo-Colo | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2000–2006 | Colo-Colo | 145 | (10) |
2004 | → Vitória S.C. (loan) | 25 | (4) |
2006 | Everton | 15 | (4) |
2007–2009 | Audax Italiano | 79 | (15) |
2009–2012 | Unión Española | 108 | (15) |
2013–2016 | O'Higgins | 104 | (9) |
2016–2018 | San Luis | 45 | (2) |
2019 | Deportes Iquique | 12 | (0) |
2019–2021 | Magallanes | 50 | (7) |
Total | 583 | (66) | |
International career | |||
2004 | Chile U23 | 6 | (1) |
2009–2014 | Chile | 7 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2022– | Magallanes (youth) | ||
2023 | Magallanes (interim) | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Braulio Antonio Leal Salvo (born 22 November 1981) is a Chilean football coach and former player who played as a midfielder. He is the current manager of Magallanes' youth sides.
Fuentes started his career at Primera División de Chile club Colo-Colo. He progressed from the under categories club all the way to the senior team.
He began his professional career in 2000 with Colo-Colo where he stayed until 2006. In the club he achieved two tournaments, the Clausura 2002 and the Apertura 2006. As an anecdote, in 2005 he took part of the reality TV show Adidas Selection Team from Fox Sports Chile, where a squad made up by youth players from professional teams faced players from schools, standing out future professional footballers such as Felipe Seymour, Nelson Saavedra, Eduardo Vargas, among others. [1]
In 2004, he had a short stint with Portuguese club Vitória Sport Clube. In 2007, he signed for Audax Italiano, where he has become a fixture in the starting eleven. But in 2009 Unión Española signed this defensive midfielder, then became the captain of the team.
Leal in 2013 signed for O'Higgins along with teammate Gonzalo Barriga. On December 10, 2013, he won the Apertura 2013-14 with O'Higgins and was the captain of team. In the tournament, he played in 13 of 18 matches. [2] In 2014, he won the Supercopa de Chile against Deportes Iquique. [3]
He participated with the club in the 2014 Copa Libertadores where they faced Deportivo Cali, Cerro Porteño and Lanús, being third and being eliminated in the group stage. [4]
On 5 June 2019, Leal joined Deportes Magallanes. [5]
In November 2021, he announced his retirement from the football activity after a 22-year career. [6] However, he and the also former professional footballer, Andrés Reyes, joined amateur club Gol y Gol from Vivanco, Río Bueno, for the 2023 South Zone Inter Regional Championship. [7]
Following his retirement, Leal assumed as the Technical Head of the Magallanes youth system, at the same he performs as coach. [8]
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