Juan Carreño (Chilean footballer)

Chilean footballer (born 1968)

Juan Carreño
Personal information
Full name	Juan Enrique Carreño López
Date of birth	(1968-11-16) November 16, 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth	San Fernando, Chile
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Youth career
	Colo-Colo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1987–1989	Colo-Colo	3	(0)
1987	→ Unión San Felipe (loan)
1987	→ Deportes Linares (loan)
1988	→ Colchagua (loan)
1989	→ Ñublense (loan)
1990	Naval
1991	Cobresal
1991	Coquimbo Unido
1992–1993	Everton
1994	Unión Española	8	(5)
1994	UNAM
1995	Cobreloa	1	(1)
1996–1997	Deportes Concepción	24	(9)
1998	Huachipato
1999	Deportes Iquique
1999	Everton
2000	Santiago Morning
2003	Deportes Concepción
International career
1987	Chile U20	2	(0)
1993–1998	Chile	10	(1)
Managerial career
2009–2011	Colchagua
2013	General Velásquez
2015	General Velásquez
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Juan Enrique Carreño López (born September 16, 1968) is a retired Chilean football forward. He was nicknamed Candonga.

Player career

Club career

A product of Colo-Colo youth system,^[1] Carreño played mostly of his career in Chilean clubs, but in 1994 he had short spell in Mexican team Pumas de la UNAM.^[2] He was known for his hard temper, which was noted in a match between Huachipato and Provincial Osorno in September 1998, where he punched the rival goalkeeper Hernán Caputto.^[3]

National team

Carreño was part of the Chile national under-20 football team that finished fourth in the 1987 FIFA World Youth Championship, played in Chile.^[4]

For the adult team, Carreño made 10 appearances between 1993 and 1998.^[5] Carreño scored a goal against Bolivia in the 1998 World Cup qualifiers that qualified Chile for the 1998 World Cup.^[6] However, he was not selected for the final squad that went to France.

Coaching career

From 2009 to 2011, he was the head coach of Colchagua in the Chilean Tercera A.^[7] In 2012 he assumed as the coach of General Velásquez and returned to the club in 2015, when he had to leave the charge because of health issues.^[8]

Personal life

He is well-known by his nickname Candonga, due to his liking for parties and nocturnal life.^[9]

References

^ Reyes, Luis (18 April 2019). "El récord histórico del fútbol chileno que acecha Vidangossy" (in Spanish). AS Chile. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
^ "Los nueve chilenos que han jugado en Pumas UNAM" (in Spanish). AS Chile. 10 December 2016. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
^ YouTube - Candonga Carreño - repartiendo combos en Osorno
^ "El cuarto lugar de la selección Sub 20 en el Mundial de 1987". El Tipógrafo (in Spanish). 27 July 2012. Retrieved 18 August 2022.
^ "Juan Carreño". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 August 2022.
^ @LaRoja (November 16, 2020). "Con los goles de Rodrigo Barrera, Marcelo Salas y Juan Carreño" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 18 August 2022 – via Twitter.
^ "Juan Carreño renunció como técnico de Deportes Colchagua". El Tipógrafo (in Spanish). 16 May 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
^ Salas, Cristian (24 October 2015). "El abrupto final de la aventura como DT de Candonga Carreño" (in Spanish). AS Chile. Retrieved 19 August 2022.
^ "Los archivos secretos del "Candonga" Carreño: "yo no sirvo para ser Zamorano"". The Clinic (in Spanish). 3 July 2011. Retrieved 19 August 2022.