| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Mauricio Geraldiny Morales Olivares | ||
| Date of birth | 7 January 2000 | ||
| Place of birth | Pichidangui, Los Vilos, Chile | ||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position | Central midfielder | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2013–2019 | Universidad de Chile | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019–2025 | Universidad de Chile | 24 | (1) |
| 2023 | → Deportes Antofagasta (loan) | 9 | (0) |
| 2024 | → Unión La Calera (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2025 | → Magallanes (loan) | 19 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2015 | Chile U15 | ||
| 2017 | Chile U17 | 16 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 24 December 2025 | |||
Mauricio Geraldiny Morales Olivares (born 7 January 2000), also known as Mauro Morales, is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder.
Morales made his professional debut in a Copa Chile match against Cobresal on 7 September 2019. [1] On 21 December, he signed his first contract as a professional footballer. [2] Morales made his international club debut in a Copa Libertadores match against San Lorenzo de Almagro on 18 March 2021. [3] In July 2023, Morales joined on loan to Deportes Antofagasta in the Primera B de Chile. [4] The next two years, he was loaned out to Unión La Calera and Magallanes. [5] [6] He ended his contract with Universidad de Chile in December 2025. [7]
At early age, he represented Chile at under-15 level at the 2015 South American U-15 Championship [8] and winning the friendly 2015 Aspire Tri-Series International Tournament in Doha, Qatar. [9] Later, he represented the under-17 team in two friendly matches against the United States, at the 2017 South American U-17 Championship – where Chile finished runners-up – and at the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
He played all the matches for the under-17s at the friendly tournament, the 2017 Lafarge Foot Avenir in France, better known as Tournament Limoges, which Chile won after defeating Belgium and Poland, [10] [11] and drawing to France. [12]