Jaime Pizarro

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Jaime Pizarro
Pizarro in 2023
Minister of Sports
Assumed office
10 March 2023
PresidentGabriel Boric
Preceded byAlexandra Benado
Undersecretary of Sports
In office
30 July 2007 – 17 November 2009
PresidentMichelle Bachelet
Preceded byRicardo Vorpahl
Succeeded byMarcela González
Personal details
Born (1964-03-02) 2 March 1964 (age 60)
Santiago, Chile

Association football career
Position(s) Midfielder
Youth career
1977–1983 Colo-Colo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1983–1993 Colo-Colo 236 (25)
1993 Argentinos Juniors 13 (1)
1994
Barcelona SC
9 (0)
1995 Tigres UANL 18 (0)
1996 Palestino 29 (2)
1997–1999
Universidad Católica
63 (5)
International career
1986–1993 Chile 53 (1)
Managerial career
2001 Chile (assistant)
2002–2004 Colo-Colo
2005 Audax Italiano
2006–2007 Palestino
2021 Barnechea
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Jaime Augusto Pizarro Herrera (born 2 March 1964) is a Chilean politician, teacher, and former football player and coach who played 53 times for the Chile national team between 1986 and 1993.[1] He serves as Minister of sports in Gabriel Boric's government.[2] He formerly served as sub-secretary of the National Institute of Sports of the government of Michelle Bachelet. At club level, he played as a midfielder, principally for the Chilean club Colo-Colo, the team where he was crowned champion both as a player and as a coach.

A teacher of

Central University of Chile.[3]

Club career

As a Player

He began his career in

Copa Libertadores de América
.

Later on his career he played for

Universidad Católica
, where he won a seventh league championship in 1997.

As a Coach

He began his career as a coach in Colo-Colo where he won a championship and two runner-up trophies, with the club in bankruptcy.

After he left the "cacique" team, he has coached teams like Audax Italiano and Palestino, achieving with the later one to keep the category of a first division team after a terrible start of the competition in 2006.

As Sub-secretary

On 30 July 2007 The President of Chile Michelle Bachelet named Jaime Pizarro Sub-secretary of the National Institute of Sports (Chiledeportes), after the resignation of Ricardo Vorpahl.

International career

Pizarro made his debut for the national senior squad on 6 May 1986, against

friendly match against Uruguay (2-2) in Montevideo
.

Managerial career

He assumed as the coach of

Sport Manager of Universidad Católica and the assistant coach of Pedro García in the Chile national team.[4] In 2005, he moved to Audax Italiano and, in 2007, he joined Palestino.[5]

Next, he performed as

Sport Manager and Director of Colo-Colo (2011–2012) and Santiago Wanderers (2018).[6] In 2021, he returned to coaching and joined Barnechea in the Primera B de Chile until July of the same year.[7]

Personal life

He is the father of the professional footballer Vicente Pizarro.[8]

Honours

Club

Colo-Colo
Universidad Católica

Individual

References

  1. ^ rsssf: Chile record international footballers
  2. ^ Lucay, Carlos González (10 March 2023). "El Káiser regresa a la política: Jaime Pizarro asume el Ministerio del Deporte". La Tercera. Retrieved 10 March 2023.
  3. Central University of Chile
    . 18 December 2017. Retrieved 19 April 2022.
  4. ^ "Jaime Pizarro, nuevo entrenador de Colo Colo". AS.com (in Spanish). Diario AS. 18 December 2001. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  5. ^ "Jaime Pizarro cumple su primera práctica en Audax". Emol (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 22 February 2005. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  6. ^ "Jaime Pizarro asumió como gerente deportivo de Santiago Wanderers y trabaja en la búsqueda de refuerzos". SoyChile (in Spanish). 18 June 2018. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  7. ^ "Jaime Pizarro deja la banca de Barnechea y asume puesto directivo". Prensafútbol (in Spanish). 27 July 2021. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  8. ^ "Hijo de Pizarro firma su primer contrato profesional en Colo Colo" (in Spanish). AS Chile. 19 June 2019. Retrieved 6 August 2022.
  9. ^ "Jaime Pizarro". Archived from the original on 11 December 2011. Retrieved 30 November 2011.
  10. ^ http://www.mercuriovalpo.cl/prontus4_noticias/site/artic/20090127/pags/20090127000501.html
  11. ^ "Conmebol premiará a Elías Figueroa, Carlos Caszely y Jaime Pizarro". 26 January 2009.

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