Jorge Contreras

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Jorge Contreras
Personal information
Full name Jorge Alejandro Contreras Lira
Date of birth (1960-07-03) 3 July 1960 (age 64)
Place of birth Lo Barnechea, Santiago, Chile
Height1.72 m (5 ft 7+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Attacking midfielder, Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1978–1980 Palestino
1981–1982 Regional Atacama
1983 Palestino
1983–1989 Las Palmas 144 (46)
1989–1992 Universidad Catolica
1993–1994 Colo-Colo
1994–1995 Tampico Madero 10 (1)
1995–1996 Deportes Concepción
1997 Santiago Wanderers
1998 Palestino
International career
1983–1997 Chile 25 (2)
Managerial career
2008–2009 Unión La Calera
2010 Cobreloa (assistant)
2011 Deportes Puerto Montt
2012–2016 Barnechea (youth)
2016–2017 Barnechea
2017–2018 Barnechea (youth)
2019 Deportes Melipilla
2019–2020 Deportes Iberia
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jorge Alejandro Contreras Lira (born 3 July 1960 in Lo Barnechea), usually known by his nickname Coke Contreras, [1] is a former Chilean football forward.

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Career

He made his international debut in the 1983 Copa del Pacífico  [ es ], a friendly match versus Peru, where Chile won by 2–0. [2] He earned 25 caps for the Chile national team during his career, scoring two goals. [3] Contreras retired in 1998. [4]

Personal life

Contreras is the uncle of the footballer Diego Corral. [5]

Honours

Player

Universidad Católica
Colo-Colo
Chile [3]

Manager

Barnechea

References

  1. ↑ "Lanzan libro sobre la carrera de Jorge "Coke" Contreras". AdPrensa (in Spanish). 6 July 2022. Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  2. ↑ Quijada, Vicente (3 July 2022). "Jorge Contreras: El volante de Chile en el subcampeonato de América de 1987". laroja.cl (in Spanish). FFCh . Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  3. 1 2 "Jorge Contreras". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 August 2022.
  4. ↑ "Jorge Contreras". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 17 August 2021.
  5. ↑ Ortiz, Matías (17 February 2025). ""Tiene las mismas características que Pablo Solari; ojalá juegue en Las Palmas y me supere"". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 17 February 2025.


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