Juan Carlos Letelier
Juan Carlos Letelier Pizarro ( born May 20, 1959 in Valparaíso ) is a former Chilean football player and current coach. He was part of the team of CD Cobreloa in series twice reached the final of the Copa Libertadores, continued to play among other things for Santiago Wanderers, Internacional Porto Alegre and the FC Caracas and took the national team of his native country at the World Cup 1982 in Spain part.
Career
Club career
Juan Carlos Letelier, who was born in 1959 in the port city of Valparaíso on the western coast of Chile, began playing football at the local club CD Santiago Wanderers, where he debuted in the first team in 1978. For the Santiago Wanderers played Letelier, who acted on the position of an attacker, the next two years even before he in 1981 for a year Audax Italiano La Florida joined without great to make a splash there.
After 27 league games for Audax Italiano it drew Juan Carlos Letelier for season 1982 CD Cobreloa. The club only a few years after its establishment, from the mining town of Calama had managed in the previous year to penetrate into the final of the Copa Libertadores, but failed there, the Brazilian representative Flamengo Rio de Janeiro. Also in 1982, showed the team of coach Vicente Cantatore, were among the players such as Mario Soto, Oscar Wirth or Enzo Escobar, surprisingly good performance in the Libertadores Cup. In the first group phase one was at the end first before Colo -Colo Santiago and the two Ecuadorian representatives Liga de Quito and Barcelona SC Guayaquil. Also in the second group stage could leave both opponents here, in this case, were the Olimpia Asunción in Paraguay and Deportes Tolima of Colombia, thus any final participation was ensured. My opponent was time CA Peñarol and was favored as in the previous Flamengo. After a goalless draw in Montevideo much to be said for the success of Cobreloa, but in the second leg at the Estadio Nacional in Santiago de Chile defeated Cobreloa by a late goal from Fernando Morena 0-1, the title of the Copa Libertadores winner so went to Uruguay.
At the national level succeeded Juan Carlos Letelier also to win with Cobreloa title. So we reached the profit of the Chilean soccer championship in 1982 and 1985. A year after the last track then parted ways by Juan Carlos Letelier and CD Cobreloa. The striker left his club after six years and went to Colombia to Independiente Medellín. With this station, an odyssey that led Letelier to various clubs of South American football began. So he was in Peru with Universitario de Deportes both (1992 ) and also with Sporting Cristal (1994 ) Masters, but played for both clubs only a year. He was also active for Cruz Azul in Brazil for Internacional Porto Alegre, in Venezuela for FC Caracas or Mexico. Even after Chile Letelier returned and finished there in 1995 at the age of 36 years as a player of his footballing career Deportes La Serena. Later he worked as a coach, but did not occur in the higher-class football.
National
Between 1979 and 1989 it brought Juan Carlos Letelier on a total of 57 missions in the Chilean national soccer team. Here he succeeded in eighteen Torerfolge. From coach Luis Santibáñez he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1982 in Spain. Letelier arrived at the tournament twice used, whereby he was only a substitute on both occasions. In the group match against Germany (1:4) he followed for the second half on Mario Soto, in the final group match against Algeria ( 2:3 ), he appeared as a substitute in the 38th minute for Carlos Caszely after the African Cup newcomer already with 3: had led 0. For the Chilean team this World Cup was disastrous. Without a single point gain would retire in the group stage in a group with Germany, Austria and Algeria.
In addition to the football World Cup Juan Carlos Letelier took part with the Chilean national team in these South America championships in 1983, 1987 and 1989, however, a title win was not possible in this case. After the latter tournament, he ended his international career with thirty years and after 57 missions.
Achievements
- Chilean Championship: 2x
- Peruvian Championship: 2x
- Finals of the Copa Libertadores: 2x