Mario Chirino
Chilean football manager and player
About Mario Chirino
Mario Chirino was an association football player and association football coach.
Mario Luis Chirino Jiménez,
In 1976, he switched to Universidad de Chile, playing for them for two seasons. In 1978, he played for Rangers de Talca.
In the Chilean Segunda División, he played for Ferroviarios in 1979.
In 1980, he moved abroad and joined LD Estudiantil in the Ecuadorian second level.
At international level, he represented Chile in the 1976 Pre-Olympic Tournament alongside players such as Nelson Sanhueza, Oscar Wirth, Eduardo Bonvallet, among others, where they reached the fifth place.
As coach As a football manager, he has mainly worked for the Coquimbo Unido youth system, taking part of the training of players such as Enzo Guerrero, Carlos Carmona, Alà Manouchehri, among others. He led the first team in 1988. He also assumed as interim coach in 2005 by replacing Raúl Toro in the top level and 2008 by replacing Nelson Cossio in the Primera B. He was released in 2014 and won a work-related lawsuit against the club in the same year.
Honours Player Universidad de Chile
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