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Quemel Farías
Personal information
Full name Quemel Edgardo Farías Mancilla
Date of birth (1963-07-01) 1 July 1963 (age 61)
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Jesús Herrera
Estudiantes Unidos
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1980–1981 Aviación
1982–1987 Cobreloa 10 (0)
1986 → Audax Italiano (loan) 10 (0)
1988–1989 Deportes Ovalle
1990 Sporting Cristal
1991 Cobresal 5 (0)
1992–1996 Deportes La Serena 53 (0)
1997 Deportes Arica
Managerial career
Taltal (city team)
2010–2015 Minera Escondida
2015–2022 Deportes Antofagasta (youth)
2016–2019 Deportes Antofagasta (women) [es]
2016–2019 Deportes Antofagasta (women) [es] (youth)
2022 Deportes Antofagasta (youth)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Quemel Edgardo Farías Mancilla is a Chilean football manager and former goalkeeper who played for clubs in Chile and Peru.

Playing career

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As a youth player, Farías was with clubs Jesús Herrera and Estudiantes Unidos from La Serena, Chile.[1] At senior level, he began his career with Aviación in the Chilean top division in 1980–81.[2]

From 1982 to 1987, he played for Cobreloa, a successful stint for the club at both national and international level.[3][4] In 1986, he had a stint on loan at Audax Italiano, also in the top division.[5] After two seasons with Deportes Ovalle in the second level,[6] he moved to Peru and joined Sporting Cristal in 1990, coinciding with his compatriots Carlos González as teammate and Eugenio Jara as coach.[7][8]

Back in Chile, he played for Cobresal[9] before joining Deportes La Serena, with whom he spent five seasons between 1992 and 1996.[2][10]

His last club was Deportes Arica in 1997.[2][11]

Coaching career

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Farías graduated and specialized as a football manager at institutions such as the European Association for Distance Learning, INAF [es] (National Football Institute), Catholic University of the North, ESEFUL Institute in Peru, A.T.F.A. in Argentina, among others.[12]

As a coach of academies based in the Norte Grande of Chile and the Taltal city team,[13] he is considered a discoverer of the Chile national team top goalscorer Alexis Sánchez.[14][15]

In the first half of 2010s, he performed as coach of the Club Social y Deportivo Minera Escondida at the same time he worked for the Minera Escondida, a mining company.[12][16]

The next seasons, he worked as coach at the Deportes Antofagasta youth ranks[17] and the women's team [es].[18]

In 2022, he assumed as the head of the Deportes Antofagasta youth system.[19][20]

Personal life

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A charismatic goalkeeper, he is remembered by his moustache.[21]

References

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  1. ^ Rivera Valencia, Carlos (8 August 2022). "El fútbol amateur lamenta el fallecimiento de don Edmundo Contreras". Diario El Día (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  2. ^ a b c Quemel Farías Mancilla at LinkedIn
  3. ^ Villalón, Andrés (11 January 2023). "Cobreloa 1983, una temporada a puro fútbol en el desierto". Asifuch (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  4. ^ "[COLUMNA] El último partido de Arica en Primera". EL CITÉ DE BUYINSKI (in Spanish). 6 November 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2023. Quemel Farías, que debió reemplazar al 'loco' Fournier en Cobreloa,
  5. ^ "AUDAX ITALIANO La Florida". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 2 April 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  6. ^ Solís, Rodrigo; Pizarro, Rodolfo (7 January 2018). "La batalla de CD La Serena VS CD Ovalle por el ascenso en 1988". Diario El Día (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  7. ^ "HISTORIA DEL SPORTING CRISTAL". Glorioso Celeste (in Spanish). 10 January 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  8. ^ (Futbolistas. Chilenos en el Exterior) Quemel Farías, recordado arquero de Deportes La Serena. En el año 1990 jugó en Sporting Cristal del Perú. on Facebook (in Spanish). 21 August 2018. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  9. ^ "1989-1992 – El ocaso de un grande". CDCobresal.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  10. ^ "Club de Deportes LA SERENA". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 5 December 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  11. ^ "1997 - Primera B". ARICADICTOS (in Spanish). 31 March 2011. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  12. ^ a b Quemel Edgardo Farías Mancilla on LinkedIn
  13. ^ Ramos Bañados, Rodrigo (23 December 2018). ""El camarín triste de Cobreloa": Una crónica de "Tropitambo", el nuevo libro de Rodrigo Ramos Bañados". Cine y Literatura (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 October 2023. como entrenador de infantiles. Con Quemel Farías, otro cobreloíno, desarrollan un trabajo que hasta hoy es recordado en esa ciudad.
  14. ^ "Los orígenes de Alexis Sánchez antes de su salto a Europa". Kodro Magazine (in Spanish). 17 November 2021. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  15. ^ "La verdadera historia de cómo Alexis Sánchez pudo ser crack del CDA". SoyChile (in Spanish). 29 March 2012. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  16. ^ "Minera La Escondida es el campeón chileno". Radio Chiloe & MRG (in Spanish). 29 April 2013. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  17. ^ Puebla, Cristian (4 April 2020). "La realidad que se viene para el fútbol joven del CDA". www.litoralpress.cl (in Spanish). Diario La Estrella de Antofagasta. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  18. ^ "Arrancó la segunda rueda del Torneo de Clausura del Fútbol Femenino". ANFP (in Spanish). 30 August 2017. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  19. ^ @clubdeportesantofagasta (18 January 2022). "Quemel Farías asumió la jefatura técnica del Fútbol Formativo del CDA ☑️" (in Spanish). Retrieved 24 October 2023 – via Instagram.
  20. ^ "Deportes Antofagasta se impuso ante Universidad de Concepción y se consagró campeón del Proyección Gatorade Regional". CampeonatoChileno.cl (in Spanish). ANFP. 1 July 2022. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
  21. ^ "La 'pinta' de los arqueros noventeros". AS Chile (in Spanish). 14 November 2015. Retrieved 24 October 2023.
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