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Esteban Eduardo González Herrera (born 22 May 1982) is a Chilean football manager and former footballer who played as a midfielder. He is the current assistant coach of Fernando Díaz in Coquimbo Unido.

Club career

Chino González began his playing career with Deportes Concepción in 2001. He has also played for Cobreloa, Deportes Concepción, Palestino, Deportes Puerto Montt, Rangers and Ñublense.

In 2004, he was part of the Cobreloa squad that won the Chilean league championship.

He joined Unión Española in January 2010.[1]

O'Higgins

On 18 June 2015, he joining in O'Higgins for the 2014-15 season.[2]

Managerial career

In 2018, González became the manager of Deportes Concepción in the Tercera B, the fifth level of the Chilean football league system. He got promotion on two consecutive occasions in both 2018 [es] and 2019 [es] seasons, leaving the team in November 2020 when it was in the Segunda División Profesional.[3] From 2021 to 2022 he worked as the assistant coach of Óscar del Solar for the same team.[4]

In August 2022, he joined the Coquimbo Unido technical staff as the assistant coach of Fernando Díaz.[5] In April 2024, he led the team in both the national championship and the Copa Sudamericana after Díaz contracted pneumonia.[6][7]

Personal life

He is nicknamed Chino (Chinese) due to his resemblance with the asian people.[8]

Honours

Club

Cobreloa

References

  1. ^ Unión Española presenta los que podrían ser sus últimos dos refuerzos Archived 2012-09-27 at the Wayback Machine at Terra Deportes (in Spanish)
  2. ^ "Comunicado de O'Higgins sobre incorporación de nuevo jugador | O'Higgins FC". Archived from the original on 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2015-06-19.
  3. ^ "Deportes Concepción comunicó la salida de su entrenador Esteban González". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 2 November 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  4. ^ "Esteban González no va más en Deportes Concepción". Diario Concepción (in Spanish). 30 June 2022. Retrieved 30 June 2022.
  5. ^ Marín Roldán, Pedro (2 August 2022). "Coquimbo Unido confirmó la llegada de su nuevo entrenador" (in Spanish). TNT Sports Chile. Retrieved 8 August 2022.
  6. ^ Valderrama, Laurencio (23 April 2024). "Esteban González y el desafío de Coquimbo: "Estamos esperanzados en lo que podamos hacer ante Racing"". Radio Sport (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  7. ^ "Preocupación por nuevo reporte del estado de salud de Fernando Díaz: ¿Será operado?". El Observatodo.cl (in Spanish). 1 May 2024. Retrieved 2 May 2024.
  8. ^ "El "Conce" oficializó al sucesor del "Chino" González" (in Spanish). TNT Sports Chile. 3 November 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2022.


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