Juan Carlos Darío Gaete Contreras (born 21 May 1997), known as Juan Carlos Gaete, is a Chilean footballer who plays as a forward for Deportes Copiapó on loan from Colo-Colo.
 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(s) | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Deportes Copiapó (on loan from Colo-Colo) | ||
| 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– | 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) | 0 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 9 January 2024 | |||
Club career
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]
Controversies
On 2019 season, Gaete joined Colo-Colo from Cobresal,[5] but he left the training preseason in Buenos Aires returning to Chile to think about his future, according to Colo-Colo.[6] Finally he was loaned to Deportes Santa Cruz at the Primera B,[7] where again he had a similar episode.[8]
On 12 August 2020, he told the reasons why left Colo-Colo, arguing he was disagreed with the money.[9]
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2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Uruguay and Colombia on 8 and 13 October respectively,[10] but he was withdrawn from the squad due to injury before the second match.[11]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 3 October 2020[12]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Magallanes | 2014-15 | Primera B | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 |
| Santa Cruz (loan) | 2015–16 | Segunda División | 23 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 9 |
| 2016–17 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 11 | ||
| 2017-T | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | ||
| 2019 | Primera B | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | |
| Total | 72 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 23 | ||
| Cobresal | 2018 | Primera B | 30 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 10 |
| 2019 | Primera División | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | |
| 2020 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | ||
| Total | 50 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 15 | ||
| Total career | 134 | 37 | 13[a] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147 | 38 | ||
- Notes
References
External links
- Juan Carlos Gaete at Soccerway