Carolina Armijo

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Carolina Armijo
Personal information
Full name Carolina Andrea Armijo Lira
Date of birth (1987-11-28) 28 November 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Height 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in) [1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Chile (women) (goalkeeping coach)
Youth career
Universidad de Chile
Everton  [ es ]
Colo-Colo
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2012–2017 Colo-Colo
2018 Cúcuta Deportivo  [ es ]
2018–2022 Colo-Colo
International career
2018–2020 Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Carolina Andrea Armijo Lira (born 28 November 1987) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. She is currently the goalkeeping coach of the Chile women's national team.

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Playing career

As a youth player, Armijo had stints with Universidad de Chile and Everton  [ es ]. [2] At senior level, she played almost all her career for Colo-Colo, [3] [4] winning her first league title in 2012. [5] In the same year, she won the Copa Libertadores. [6]

Abroad, she had a stint with Colombian club Cúcuta Deportivo  [ es ] in 2018. [7] [8]

At international level, she was a member of the Chile squad that was the runner-up in the 2018 Copa América Femenina. [9] She went on being a member of the team until 2020. [10] [11]

A player of Colo-Colo until 2022, she made official her retirement in 2023. [6]

Coaching career

As a goalkeeping coach, she was a member of the technical staff of Luis Mena in Colo-Colo in 2022 and 2023. She followed him in the Chile national team. [12] [2]

Personal life

At the age of eighteen, she worked in a McDonald's restaurant. She later graduated as a podiatrist. [2]

Honours

Colo-Colo

References

  1. ↑ "CAROLINA ARMIJO". ANFP (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  2. 1 2 3 Valeria, Marco (4 September 2023). "Preparadora de arqueras de la Roja comenzó haciendo hamburguesas". Las Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  3. ↑ "Colo Colo, nueve veces campeonas" (PDF). Memoria 2014 (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: ANFP: 54. 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  4. ↑ "Colo Colo clasifica a la Copa Libertadores tras derrotar de manera agónica a Palestino". Teletrece (in Spanish). Canal 13. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  5. ↑ "COLO COLO ES PENTACAMPEÓN DEL FÚTBOL FEMENINO". ANFP (in Spanish). 23 December 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  6. 1 2 Molina, Geraldine (8 April 2023). "Carolina Armijo es la 4º campeona de Libertadores con Colo-Colo retirada". Contragolpe (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  7. ↑ "Carolina Armijo Migra a Colombia". www.CCDesdeQueNaci.cl (in Spanish). 16 February 2018. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  8. ↑ (DSL Deportes & Noticias) Carolina Armijo, Jugadora del Cúcuta Deportivo on YouTube (in Spanish). 20 February 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  9. ↑ "Todo listo para la Copa América: Estas son las 22 elegidas que representarán a Chile en el torneo". El Desconcierto (in Spanish). 25 March 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  10. ↑ @laroja (22 May 2018). "La Selección Femenina volvió este martes a los trabajos de cara a los dos amistosos ante Costa Rica" (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024– via Instagram.
  11. ↑ "La Roja Femenina trabajará con contingente local en la fecha FIFA de octubre". www.laroja.cl (in Spanish). FFCh. 16 October 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
  12. ↑ Molina, Geraldine (16 May 2023). "Oficial: Luis Mena es confirmado como nuevo DT de La Roja Femenina". RedGol (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.


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