Juan Carlos Gaete
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 Gaete with Unión La Calera in 2023 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Juan Carlos Darío Gaete Contreras | ||
| Date of birth | 21 May 1997 | ||
| Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Cartaginés | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Deportes La Serena | |||
| Magallanes | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2014–2017 | Magallanes | 12 | (0) |
| 2015–2017 | → Deportes Santa Cruz (loan) | 59 | (22) |
| 2018 | Cobresal | 30 | (9) |
| 2019 | Colo-Colo | 0 | (0) |
| 2019 | → Deportes Santa Cruz (loan) | 13 | (1) |
| 2019–2020 | Cobresal | 38 | (8) |
| 2021–2024 | Colo-Colo | 5 | (1) |
| 2021–2022 | → Cobresal (loan) | 41 | (2) |
| 2023 | → Unión La Calera (loan) | 14 | (2) |
| 2023 | → San Luis (loan) | 11 | (1) |
| 2024 | → Deportes Copiapó (loan) | 19 | (3) |
| 2025 | Cobresal | 11 | (0) |
| 2026– | Cartaginés | 0 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 10 January 2026 | |||
Juan Carlos Darío Gaete Contreras (born 21 May 1997), known as Juan Carlos Gaete, is a Chilean footballer who plays as a forward for Costa Rican club Cartaginés.
Controversies
As a youth player, Gaete was with Deportes La Serena.[1]
In July 2023, he ended his loan from Colo-Colo with Unión La Calera and switched to San Luis de Quillota in the Primera B until the end of the season.[2][3] The next year, he was loaned to Deportes Copiapó in the top level.[4]
After ending hos contract with Colo-Colo, Gaete returned to Cobresal for the fourth time for the 2025 season.[5]
In January 2026, Gaete moved abroad and joined Costa Rican club Cartaginés.[6]
On 2019 season, Gaete joined Colo-Colo from Cobresal,[7] but he left the training preseason in Buenos Aires returning to Chile to think about his future, according to Colo-Colo.[8] Finally he was loaned to Deportes Santa Cruz at the Primera B,[9] where again he had a similar episode.[10]
On 12 August 2020, he told the reasons why left Colo-Colo, arguing he was disagreed with the money.[11]
International career
He received his first call up to the Chile senior team to play the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Uruguay and Colombia on 8 and 13 October respectively,[12] but he was withdrawn from the squad due to injury before the second match.[13]