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Paulo Garcés
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Garcés with Deportes Antofagasta in 2018
Personal information
Full name Paulo Andrés Garcés Contreras
Date of birth (1984-08-02) 2 August 1984 (age 39)
Place of birth Parral, Chile
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11+12 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Deportes Valdivia
Youth career
1999–2003 Universidad Católica
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2003–2011 Universidad Católica 66 (0)
2004 → Deportes Puerto Montt (loan) 18 (0)
2007 → Deportes Puerto Montt (loan) 13 (0)
2008 → Lobos BUAP (loan) 17 (0)
2008 Everton (loan) 6 (0)
2011–2013 Universidad de Chile 5 (0)
2011 → Unión La Calera (loan) 0 (0)
2013–2014 O'Higgins 30 (0)
2014–2017 Colo-Colo 32 (0)
2017–2019 Deportes Antofagasta 45 (0)
2020–2021 Curicó Unido 16 (0)
2021 San Luis 6 (0)
2021– Deportes Valdivia 0 (0)
National team
2011–2016 Chile 1 (0)
Honours
  • Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 June 2021.

† Appearances (Goals).

‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 7 September 2016

Paulo Andrés Garcés Contreras (born 2 August 1984) is a Chilean footballer who plays for Chilean Segunda División club Deportes Valdivia as a goalkeeper.

Career

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Garcés with O'Higgins F.C. in 2013

Garcés made his debut in 2003 against Santiago Wanderers in the closing championship at San Carlos de Apoquindo Stadium. He was loaned out to Deportes Puerto Montt in 2004 and 2007

After returning from the loan Deportes Puerto Montt, Universidad Católica loaned him to Lobos de la BUAP of Primera "A" of Mexican soccer. After his experience in Mexico, he returns to Chile to play in Everton de Viña del Mar team in which he was on the starting eleven sometimes. In 2009, he returns to Universidad Católica willing to win a place on the starting eleven of coach Marco Antonio Figueroa.

In 2013, he won the Apertura 2013–14 with O'Higgins. In the tournament, he played 16 matches receiving 12 goals; including the final versus Universidad Católica, where he was a key player after made saves in the final minutes.

In 2014, he won the Supercopa de Chile against Deportes Iquique, but did not play because he was called up for the Chile national team.

He participated with the club in the 2014 Copa Libertadores where they faced Deportivo Cali, Cerro Porteño and Lanús, being third and being eliminated in the group stage.

In 2021, after playing six matches for Primera B club San Luis de Quillota, he resigned. At the same year, he joined Deportes Valdivia in the Segunda División Profesional de Chile.

Personal life

Garcés is married with the model Joyce Castiblanco. The couple have three children: Florencia, Benjamín and Paulo.

Although his father, Patricio, was a goalkeeper, from his paternal line his relatives are mainly inclined towards arts and music: His older brother, Óscar, is an actor and former goalkeeper of Colo-Colo at youth level and both his younger brother, Miguel, and his cousins, Andrés de León (stage name of Christian Garcés) and Patricio Garcés, are singers.

Honours

Club

Universidad Católica
  • Primera División de Chile: 2005–A, 2010
Universidad de Chile
  • Primera División: 2012–A
O'Higgins
  • Primera División: 2013–A
  • Supercopa de Chile: 2014
Colo Colo
  • Primera División: 2015–A

Individual

  • 2012 Copa Sudamericana Team of the Tournament
  • 2013 Jugador Experto Easy del Año
  • Medalla Santa Cruz de Triana (1): 2014

See also

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