Mario Chirino

Mario Chirino
Personal information
Full name Mario Luis Chirino Jiménez
Place of birth Chile
Position Defender
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1971–1975 Deportes La Serena 72 (1)
1976–1977 Universidad de Chile 22 (0)
1978 Rangers 30 (0)
1979 Ferroviarios
1980 LD Estudiantil
International career
1976 Chile U23
Managerial career
1988 Coquimbo Unido
–2014 Coquimbo Unido (youth)
2005 Coquimbo Unido (interim)
2008 Coquimbo Unido (interim)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Mario Luis Chirino Jiménez, frequently and wrongly named Mario Chirinos, is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a defender.

Career

As player

A football defender, Chirino stood out as a player of Deportes La Serena in the Chilean Primera División in the first half of the 1970s alongside players such as Hugo Valdivia, Juan Koscina, Gregorio Vilches, among others.

In 1976, he switched to Universidad de Chile, playing for them for two seasons. In 1978, he played for Rangers de Talca.

In the Chilean Segunda División, he played for Ferroviarios in 1979.

In 1980, he moved abroad and joined LD Estudiantil in the Ecuadorian second level.

At international level, he represented Chile in the 1976 Pre-Olympic Tournament alongside players such as Nelson Sanhueza, Oscar Wirth, Eduardo Bonvallet, among others, where they reached the fifth place.

As coach

As a football manager, he has mainly worked for the Coquimbo Unido youth system, taking part of the training of players such as Enzo Guerrero, Carlos Carmona, Alí Manouchehri, among others. He led the first team in 1988. He also assumed as interim coach in 2005 by replacing Raúl Toro in the top level and 2008 by replacing Nelson Cossio in the Primera B. He was released in 2014 and won a work-related lawsuit against the club in the same year.

Honours

Player

Universidad de Chile

References

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  11. ↑ (coquimbounidosadp) Fútbol Joven Coquimbo Unido golea a Deportes La Serena on YouTube (in Spanish). 13 March 2010. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  12. ↑ "El clásico regional se llevó todos los aplausos". Diario El Día (in Spanish). 30 September 2012. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  13. ↑ "Comunidad porteña pide retorno de policías a las graderías". Diario La Región (in Spanish). 9 December 2015. Retrieved 22 March 2024. director técnico, ex entrenador de las divisiones menores de Coquimbo Unido
  14. ↑ "Enzo Guerrero, desde las canchas de tierra al profesionalismo". www.andacolloconectado.cl (in Spanish). 26 October 2016. Archived from the original on 18 June 2021. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
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  16. ↑ "Raúl Toro renunció a la banca de Coquimbo Unido". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 1 November 2005. Archived from the original on 3 January 2023. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  17. ↑ "U. de Chile recibe a Coquimbo con la mente puesta en los play-offs". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 20 November 2005. Retrieved 21 June 2025. Los pupilos de Mario Chirino, quien reemplazó interinamente al renunciado Raúl Toro
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  19. ↑ "Primera B: Coquimbo Unido logró un tranquilizador triunfo". Archived from the original on 14 July 2020. Retrieved 14 July 2020.
  20. ↑ (radiodeportes) Mario Chirino on YouTube (in Spanish). 27 May 2008. Retrieved 7 February 2024.
  21. ↑ Sepúlveda, Cristian (4 September 2013). "Al pirata no le queda ni la "pata de palo" | PrimeraBChile.cl - El Portal del fútbol de ascenso de Chile". PrimeraBChile.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 23 August 2025. entrenadores desde 2008: Nelson Cossio, Mario Chirinos, Víctor Milanese Comisso,
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