Jaime Zapata (footballer)

Jaime Sebastián Zapata Rodríguez (born 20 June 1959) is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper.

Jaime Zapata
Personal information
Full name Jaime Sebastián Zapata Rodríguez
Date of birth (1959-06-20) 20 June 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth Talcahuano, Chile
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Orompello
1977 Valparaíso (city team)
1977–1979 Everton
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1979–1985 Everton 83 (0)
1981Coquimbo Unido (loan)
1981Santiago Wanderers (loan)
1986 San Luis
1986 Audax Italiano 16 (0)
1987 Cobreandino
1988–1989 Deportes La Serena 14 (0)
1990 Deportes Antofagasta
1991–1992 Santiago Wanderers 27 (0)
1992 Everton 20 (0)
1993 Santiago Wanderers
1995 Unión La Calera
Managerial career
1999 San Luis
2000 Al-Arabi (assistant)
2001 Everton
2004 Lota Schwager
2008–2019 Santiago Wanderers (youth women)
2008–2019 Santiago Wanderers (women)
2009 Valparaíso Region (women)
2019 Colo-Colo (women)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

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Born in Talcahuano, Chile, Zapata was with Club Orompello from Valparaíso as a youth player.[1] In 1977, he took part in the 1977 Amateur Youth National Championship in Pedro de Valdivia nitrate works [es] representing the Valparaíso city team alongside fellows such as Juan Carlos Letelier, later a Chile international, and Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, later the commander of the political-military organization Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front,[2] before joining the Everton de Viña del Mar youth system.[1]

Better known for having represented both Everton[3] and Santiago Wanderers,[4][5] classic rivals, in the first and the second divisions, he had an extensive career in his homeland. In the Primera División, he also played for Audax Italiano[6] and Deportes La Serena.[7] In the second level, he also played for Cobreandino,[1] Deportes Antofagasta[8] and Unión La Calera.[9] In addition, he represented Coquimbo Unido and San Luis de Quillota in the Copa Polla Gol in 1981 and 1986, respectively.[1]

With Everton, he won the 1984 Copa Polla Gol with Fernando Riera as coach.[10]

Coaching career

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As coach of men's teams, Zapata has led San Luis de Quillota,[11] Everton[12] and Lota Schwager.[13]

He also served as the assistant coach of Luis Santibáñez in Qatari club Al-Arabi in 2000.[14]

As coach of women's teams, Zapata is considered the driving force of the women's football for Santiago Wanderers [es] since 2008 and worked for over ten years at youth and senior level in the club.[15][16][17] In 2019, he assumed as coach of Colo-Colo.[18]

In addition, he led the women's team of the Valparaíso Region in the 2009 Binational Games.[19]

References

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  1. ^ a b c d "Jaime ZAPATA". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  2. ^ "FPMR Fútbol Club". Revista Qué Pasa (in Spanish). 31 March 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  3. ^ @evertonsadp (20 June 2020). "¡Feliz cumpleaños, Jaime! 🎂🎈" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023 – via Twitter.
  4. ^ "Wanderers en Campeonato de Primera División 1991". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  5. ^ "Wanderers en Campeonato de Segunda División 1981". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  6. ^ "Audax Italiano 1986 - Campeonato Nacional". www.solofutbol.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  7. ^ "Pedro Carrizo, la excepción en el pórtico granate". www.diarioeldia.cl (in Spanish). Diario El Día. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  8. ^ "Copa Chile-Digeder 1991". eseaene.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  9. ^ "Club de Deportes UNIÓN LA CALERA". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 31 December 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  10. ^ "Los artífices de una hazaña olvidada confían en el Everton de "Vitamina"". Everforever.cl (in Spanish). 17 April 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  11. ^ Olivares, Brian (3 August 2019). "Jaime Zapata asume en Colo Colo: "No porque el fútbol femenino no sea tan lucrativo, lo vamos a dejar de lado"". Dale Albo (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  12. ^ "El arco cambia de dueño" (in Spanish). El Mercurio de Valparaíso. 23 November 2001. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  13. ^ "¡ QUE NO SE REPITA !". AGUANTELOTA (in Spanish). 10 January 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  14. ^ Reyes, Luis (19 November 2022). "Fue el primer chileno en Qatar y hoy pocos se acuerdan de él". Diario AS (in Spanish). AS Chile. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  15. ^ "Documental DECANAS: Mujeres de Wanderers". Catapulta.me (in Spanish). 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  16. ^ "Nuevo triunfo en el Fútbol Femenino". eseaene.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  17. ^ alarcón, José (14 September 2014). "Wanderers femenino comenzó su participación en el Clausura sin saber de derrotas". eseaene.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  18. ^ "Jaime Zapata Rodríguez, Colo-Colo, Colo-Colo Femenino,". mi.csdcolocolo.cl (in Spanish). 2 August 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
  19. ^ Herrera, Gabriel (6 November 2009). "Juegos Binacionales". Deportes Quillota (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
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