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José Luis Sierra (footballer, born 1997)

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José Luis Sierra
Personal information
Full name José Luis Sierra Cabrera
Date of birth (1997-06-24) 24 June 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Forward
Youth career
Unión Española
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014–2019 Unión Española 43 (5)
2020 Bisceglie 1 (0)
2020–2021 Deportes Temuco 2 (0)
2021 Deportes Colina 13 (0)
2022 Unión Española 0 (0)
Total 59 (5)
International career
2015–2017 Chile U20 6 (2)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

José Luis Sierra Cabrera (born 24 June 1997) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a forward.

Club career

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On 21 January 2020, he signed a two-year contract with Italian third-tier Serie C club Bisceglie.[1]

On April 29, 2021, he joined Chilean Segunda División side Deportes Colina.[2]

After the 2022 season with Unión Española, he retired from professional football at the age of twenty-five, joining the amateur club La Masía from Estadio Español based in Las Condes, Santiago.[3]

International career

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He represented Chile U20 at two South American Youth Football Championships: 2015 in Uruguay and 2017 in Ecuador.

Personal life

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He is the son of the former Chilean international footballer José Luis Sierra.[4]

His paternal grandparents, Domingo Sierra and Pilar Pando, are Spanish immigrants in Chile of Galician and Asturian origin, respectively.[5]

Belonging to a football family, his grandfather was a director of Unión Española[5] and his great-great-uncle, Félix Cantín, was a doctor and midfielder of Unión Deportiva Española from 1928 to 1932.[6]

His cousin, Benjamín Sierra, who is also the nephew of the football manager Sebastián Miranda, plays at the Spanish Kings League.[7]

References

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  1. ^ "CALCIOMERCATO: ufficializzati SIERRA, PETRIS e NACCI" (Press release) (in Italian). Bisceglie. 21 January 2020.
  2. ^ "José Luis Sierra Jr. jugará en la Segunda División 2021" (in European Spanish). TNT Sports Chile. 29 April 2021. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  3. ^ "Hijo de José Luis Sierra se retiró del profesionalismo y fichó en club amateur". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 7 April 2023. Retrieved 9 April 2023.
  4. ^ "José Luis Sierra, el hijo del "Coto" que salvó a Chile de una derrota frente a Ecuador en el Sub 20 | Emol.com". Emol (in Spanish). El Mercurio. 23 January 2017. Retrieved 2 May 2021.
  5. ^ a b "José Luis Sierra Pando". excha.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 22 August 2023.
  6. ^ Llanos Ibarra, Heriberto (29 March 2021). "Andrés García y las generaciones doradas de Unión Española". Asifuch (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  7. ^ Parker, Matías (29 January 2023). "La historia de Benjamín Sierra, un chileno suelto en la Kings League" (in Spanish). La Tercera. Retrieved 21 February 2023.
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