Quemel Farías
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Quemel Edgardo Farías Mancilla | ||
| Date of birth | 1 July 1963 | ||
| Place of birth | La Serena, Chile | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position | 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) | ||
| 2016–2019 | Deportes Antofagasta (women) (youth) | ||
| 2022–2024 | Deportes Antofagasta (youth) | ||
| 2024 | Deportes Antofagasta (interim) | ||
| * 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.
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
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]