Jaime Zapata (footballer)

Jaime Sebastián Zapata Rodríguez (born 20 June 1959) is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a goalkeeper.

Jaime Zapata

Personal information
Full name	Jaime Sebastián Zapata Rodríguez
Date of birth	(1959-06-20) 20 June 1959 (age 65)
Place of birth	Talcahuano, Chile
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Youth career
	Orompello
1977	Valparaíso (city team)
1977–1979	Everton
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1979–1985	Everton	83	(0)
1981	→ Coquimbo Unido (loan)
1981	→ Santiago Wanderers (loan)
1986	San Luis
1986	Audax Italiano	16	(0)
1987	Cobreandino
1988–1989	Deportes La Serena	14	(0)
1990	Deportes Antofagasta
1991–1992	Santiago Wanderers	27	(0)
1992	Everton	20	(0)
1993	Santiago Wanderers
1995	Unión La Calera
Managerial career
1999	San Luis
2000	Al-Arabi (assistant)
2001	Everton
2004	Lota Schwager
2008–2019	Santiago Wanderers (youth women)
2008–2019	Santiago Wanderers (women)
2009	Valparaíso Region (women)
2019	Colo-Colo (women)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Playing career

Born in Talcahuano, Chile, Zapata was with Club Orompello from Valparaíso as a youth player.^[1] In 1977, he took part in the 1977 Amateur Youth National Championship in Pedro de Valdivia nitrate works ^[es] representing the Valparaíso city team alongside fellows such as Juan Carlos Letelier, later a Chile international, and Mauricio Hernández Norambuena, later the commander of the political-military organization Manuel Rodríguez Patriotic Front,^[2] before joining the Everton de Viña del Mar youth system.^[1]

Better known for having represented both Everton^[3] and Santiago Wanderers,^[4][5] classic rivals, in the first and the second divisions, he had an extensive career in his homeland. In the Primera División, he also played for Audax Italiano^[6] and Deportes La Serena.^[7] In the second level, he also played for Cobreandino,^[1] Deportes Antofagasta^[8] and Unión La Calera.^[9] In addition, he represented Coquimbo Unido and San Luis de Quillota in the Copa Polla Gol in 1981 and 1986, respectively.^[1]

With Everton, he won the 1984 Copa Polla Gol with Fernando Riera as coach.^[10]

Coaching career

As coach of men's teams, Zapata has led San Luis de Quillota,^[11] Everton^[12] and Lota Schwager.^[13]

He also served as the assistant coach of Luis Santibáñez in Qatari club Al-Arabi in 2000.^[14]

As coach of women's teams, Zapata is considered the driving force of the women's football for Santiago Wanderers ^[es] since 2008 and worked for over ten years at youth and senior level in the club.^[15][16][17] In 2019, he assumed as coach of Colo-Colo.^[18]

In addition, he led the women's team of the Valparaíso Region in the 2009 Binational Games.^[19]

References

1. "Jaime ZAPATA". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
2. "FPMR Fútbol Club". Revista Qué Pasa (in Spanish). 31 March 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
3. @evertonsadp (20 June 2020). "¡Feliz cumpleaños, Jaime! 🎂🎈" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023 – via Twitter.
4. "Wanderers en Campeonato de Primera División 1991". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
5. "Wanderers en Campeonato de Segunda División 1981". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
6. "Audax Italiano 1986 - Campeonato Nacional". www.solofutbol.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
7. "Pedro Carrizo, la excepción en el pórtico granate". www.diarioeldia.cl (in Spanish). Diario El Día. 22 September 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
8. "Copa Chile-Digeder 1991". eseaene.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
9. "Club de Deportes UNIÓN LA CALERA". Fútbol en América (in Spanish). 31 December 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
10. "Los artífices de una hazaña olvidada confían en el Everton de "Vitamina"". Everforever.cl (in Spanish). 17 April 2017. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
11. Olivares, Brian (3 August 2019). "Jaime Zapata asume en Colo Colo: "No porque el fútbol femenino no sea tan lucrativo, lo vamos a dejar de lado"". Dale Albo (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
12. "El arco cambia de dueño" (in Spanish). El Mercurio de Valparaíso. 23 November 2001. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
13. "¡ QUE NO SE REPITA !". AGUANTELOTA (in Spanish). 10 January 2008. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
14. Reyes, Luis (19 November 2022). "Fue el primer chileno en Qatar y hoy pocos se acuerdan de él". Diario AS (in Spanish). AS Chile. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
15. "Documental DECANAS: Mujeres de Wanderers". Catapulta.me (in Spanish). 2020. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
16. "Nuevo triunfo en el Fútbol Femenino". eseaene.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
17. alarcón, José (14 September 2014). "Wanderers femenino comenzó su participación en el Clausura sin saber de derrotas". eseaene.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.
18. "Jaime Zapata Rodríguez, Colo-Colo, Colo-Colo Femenino,". mi.csdcolocolo.cl (in Spanish). 2 August 2019. Retrieved 27 July 2023.
19. Herrera, Gabriel (6 November 2009). "Juegos Binacionales". Deportes Quillota (in Spanish). Retrieved 27 July 2023.

External links

• Jaime Zapata at PlaymakerStats
• Teaser Decanas "Porteñas de Pasión Verde" on YouTube