Patricio Mac Allister

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Patricio Mac Allister
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Full name Carlos Patricio Mac Allister
Date of birth (1966-03-20) 20 March 1966 (age 57)
Place of birth Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina
Position(s) Forward
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1984–1987 Estudiantes de La Plata
1987–1988 Deportivo Maipú
1988–1991 Estudiantes de La Plata
1991–1992 Mitsubishi Motors
1992–1993 Argentinos Juniors
1993–1994 Correcaminos 23 (1)
1995 Aldosivi
1996–1999 General Belgrano de Santa Rosa
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Carlos Patricio Mac Allister (born 20 March 1966) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a forward for clubs in Argentina, Mexico and Japan.

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Career

Born in Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Mac Allister began playing football with local side General Belgrano de Santa Rosa. He made his Primera debut with Estudiantes de la Plata in 1989. He also played in the first team of Argentinos Juniors. [1]

Mac Allister had a spell in Mexico with Correcaminos UAT and then moved to Japan to play for Mitsubishi Motors.

Post-playing career

In 1998, the Mac Allister brothers, Carlos Javier and Carlos Patricio, decided to found their own sports club for youngsters, the MacAllister Sports Club. They acquired a four-hectare piece of land situated 5 km away from the centre of the city of Santa Rosa, La Pampa, where they built their own club to instruct and promote soccer players for their subsequent insertion into professional soccer. [2] Patricio Mac Allister served as coach of the club's youth teams since 1999, and has also coached for General Belgrano de Santa Rosa and the youth teams of Argentinos Juniors. [3]

Personal life

Mac Allister is the older brother of former professional footballer Carlos Mac Allister, [4] and he has three nephews who are also professional footballers: Alexis, Francis and Kevin. [4] Mac Allister is of Irish and Italian descent. [5] Although assumed to be of Scottish heritage, Mac Allister's family origins were instead from the Irish town of Donabate. [6] [7]

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References

  1. "Mac Allister Patricio" (in Spanish). En Una Balosa. 30 May 2005.
  2. MacAllister Sports Club
  3. CV de Carlos Patricio Mac Allister - Club Deportivo Mac Allister
  4. 1 2 "Triple Mac". Olé. 23 September 2017. Retrieved 13 November 2017.
  5. "The Mac Allister family: friends with Maradona to a World Cup with Messi". the Guardian. 12 December 2022. Retrieved 19 December 2022.
  6. Kingston, Samuel (16 December 2022). "Irish Argentines: Foxford to Buenes Aires via Donabate".{{cite journal}}: Cite journal requires |journal= (help)
  7. Culhane, Darragh (18 December 2022). "Alexis Mac Allister's Irish heritage explained as he plays in World Cup final". Irish Mirror. Retrieved 19 December 2022.