Luis Ceballos (footballer)

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Full name Luis Avelino Ceballos Bustos
Date of birth (1964-09-20) 20 September 1964 (age 61)
Place of birth Lota, Chile
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Luis Ceballos
Personal information
Full name Luis Avelino Ceballos Bustos
Date of birth (1964-09-20) 20 September 1964 (age 61)
Place of birth Lota, Chile
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position Midfielder
Team information
Current team
Fernández Vial (women) (manager)
Youth career
Lota Schwager
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1984–1986 Lota Schwager
1987 Fernández Vial
1988 Cobreloa 5 (0)
1989–1991 Fernández Vial
1992–1993 O'Higgins
1994 Colo-Colo 5 (1)
1994 Santa Fe 14 (1)
1995–1996 Universidad Católica
1997–1998 Deportes La Serena
1999–2002 Huachipato
2003 Everton
2004 Fernández Vial
International career
1987 Chile B
Managerial career
2005 Fernández Vial
Naval
Lota Schwager (youth)
2020 Malleco Unido
2023– Fernández Vial (women)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Chile
Pan American Games
Silver medal – second place1987 IndianapolisTeam
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Luis Avelino Ceballos Bustos (born 20 September 1964) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a midfielder and manager. He is currently in charge of Fernández Vial (women).

With an extensive career in Chilean football, in the Chilean Primera División Ceballos played for Fernández Vial,[1] Cobreloa, O'Higgins, Colo-Colo,[2] Universidad Católica,[3] Deportes La Serena and Huachipato. In the Primera B de Chile, he played for Lota Schwager, Everton and Fernández Vial,[4] where he retired.[1]

He also had a stint with Colombian club Independiente Santa Fe in 1994,[5] becoming the third Chilean to play for the club after Carlos Molina and Juan Ramón Garrido.[6]

He won league titles along with Lota Schwager (1986, Segunda División),[7] Cobreloa (1988, Primera División),[8] and Everton (2003, Primera B).[9] In addition he won the Copa Chile along with Colo-Colo (1994)[10] and Universidad Católica (1995).[11]

International career

Ceballos represented Chile in the 1987 Pan American Games, winning the silver medal.[12]

Coaching career

He has coached Fernández Vial and Naval in the Primera B de Chile. In 2020, he assumed as coach of Malleco Unido in the Chilean Tercera B.[13]

He also has worked with youth players in both the Lota Schwager youth system and his football academy in his city of birth.[13]

In April 2023, he assumed as coach of the Fernández Vial women's team.[14]

Personal life

His younger brother, Sergio, is also a former footballer who played for Universidad de Chile while he was a player of Colo-Colo, the traditional rival.[15]

He served as councillor of his city of birth, Lota from 2012 to 2016.[16] In 2016 he was a mayoral candidate for the same city, as member of Amplitude party, but he wasn't elected.[17]

Honours

References

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