Juan Carlos Gaete
 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 | Cobresal | ||
| 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 | 0 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 10 December 2024 | |||
Juan Carlos Darío Gaete Contreras (born 21 May 1997), known as Juan Carlos Gaete, is a Chilean footballer who plays as a forward for Cobresal.
Club career
[edit]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]
Controversies
[edit]On 2019 season, Gaete joined Colo-Colo from Cobresal,[6] but he left the training preseason in Buenos Aires returning to Chile to think about his future, according to Colo-Colo.[7] Finally he was loaned to Deportes Santa Cruz at the Primera B,[8] where again he had a similar episode.[9]
On 12 August 2020, he told the reasons why left Colo-Colo, arguing he was disagreed with the money.[10]
International career
[edit]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2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Uruguay and Colombia on 8 and 13 October respectively,[11] but he was withdrawn from the squad due to injury before the second match.[12]
Career statistics
[edit]Club
[edit]- As of 3 October 2020.[13]
| 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
- ^ Appearances in the Copa Chile
References
[edit]- ^ "Formador de Juan Carlos Gaete reveló el motivo por el que lo utilizó de arquero". EnCancha.cl (in Spanish). 12 March 2021. Retrieved 12 March 2021.
- ^ Valenzuela, Rodrigo (21 July 2023). "¿Qué tiene que ver Colo Colo? Juan Carlos Gaete deja La Calera y refuerza a equipo de Primera B". Dale Albo (in Spanish). Retrieved 21 July 2023.
- ^ Suárez, Cristóbal (2 December 2023). "El criticado jugador que confirmó su retorno a Colo Colo y se convierte en nuevo "refuerzo"". En Cancha (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 December 2023.
- ^ Vera, Pablo (9 January 2024). "La nueva chance de Gaete". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 9 January 2024.
- ^ Brossy, Cristian Hernán (8 December 2024). "Fichajes Cobresal: Juan Carlos Gaete regresa al club gracias a la confianza de Gustavo Huerta". TOP Mercato (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 December 2024.
- ^ "Colo Colo confirma su primer fichaje: Anuncia llegada de Juan Carlos Gaete desde Cobresal". Meganoticias. 27 December 2018. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "Juan Carlos Gaete abandonó la pretemporada y sigue complicando a Colo-Colo". EnCancha.cl. 9 January 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "Juan Carlos Gaete jugará en Santa Cruz este 2019: "Feliz de volver al equipo que creyó en mí"". 24horas.cl. 25 January 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "Juan Carlos Gaete desaparece una semana en Santa Cruz". chile.AS.com. 2 July 2019. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "Juan Carlos Gaete reveló el motivo por el que se fue de Colo Colo: "No estaba de acuerdo con la plata"". 24horas.cl. 12 August 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "Esta es la nómina de La Roja para los duelos por Eliminatorias ante Uruguay y Colombia". laroja.cl. 5 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ "Jugador liberado de la convocatoria de la Selección Chilena". laroja.cl. 10 October 2020. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
- ^ Juan Carlos Gaete at Soccerway. Retrieved 20 October 2020.
External links
[edit]- Juan Carlos Gaete at Soccerway
- 1997 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Santiago, Chile
- Chilean men's footballers
- 21st-century Chilean sportsmen
- Men's association football midfielders
- Men's association football forwards
- Deportes Magallanes footballers
- Deportes Santa Cruz footballers
- C.D. Cobresal footballers
- Colo-Colo footballers
- Unión La Calera footballers
- San Luis de Quillota footballers
- Deportes Copiapó footballers
- Chilean Primera División players
- Primera B de Chile players
- Segunda División Profesional de Chile players