Ismael Fuentes

Ismael Ignacio Fuentes Castro (born 4 August 1981) is a Chilean football player. Since the 2010 season, the central defender for CD Universidad Católica under contract.

Career

Association

Fuentes, whose nickname El Chupalla goes back to a traditional Chilean sombrero playing football learned at third division CD Linares. At the beginning of his career, he moved in 2001 to the first division CSD Rangers Talca, with whom he could earn the 2002 runner-up title of the Apertura. Only gradually did the defensive player developed for service providers. In 2004 he decided to change to a Chilean giants Colo -Colo. But this commitment remained only a short time and soon he left the Chilean top club again to hire abroad for Jaguares de Chiapas. When Mexican club Fuentes remained five years. Only in the 2009 season he was loaned to league rival CF Atlas. In 2006, he was with the Jaguares the league (Clausura) dominate: Then you missed then but a success in the play- off matches. 2010, drew the defender back into the home, where he joined on loan CD Universidad Católica.

National

Fuentes debut in the national team, he was in 2003, when he was nominated by then-coach Juvenal Olmos for the discharged in Chile qualifying tournament for the Olympic football tournament in Athens in 2004. Some time later brought him the new coach Nelson Acosta in the senior national team, took him to the Copa America 2007 in Venezuela, where the center-back was used in all games. In May 2010, Fuentes coach Marcelo Bielsa from the squad of the Chilean national team at the World Cup 2010 in South Africa. Although he had a regular place under Bielsa during qualifying for the World Cup, he was during the World Cup tournament in the second row behind Waldo Ponce and Gary Medel.