Carolina Armijo
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Carolina Andrea Armijo Lira | ||
| Date of birth | 28 November 1987 | ||
| Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||
| Height | 1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Chile (women) (goalkeeping coach) | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Universidad de Chile | |||
| Everton | |||
| Colo-Colo | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2017 | Colo-Colo | ||
| 2018 | Cúcuta Deportivo | ||
| 2018–2022 | Colo-Colo | ||
| International career | |||
| 2018–2020 | Chile | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Carolina Andrea Armijo Lira (born 28 November 1987) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. She is currently the goalkeeping coach of the Chile women's national team.
Playing career[edit]
As a youth player, Armijo had stints with Universidad de Chile and Everton [es].[2] At senior level, she played almost all her career for Colo-Colo,[3][4] winning her first league title in 2012.[5] In the same year, she won the Copa Libertadores.[6]
Abroad, she had a stint with Colombian club Cúcuta Deportivo [es] in 2018.[7][8]
At international level, she was a member of the Chile squad that was the runner-up in the 2018 Copa América Femenina.[9] She went on being a member of the team until 2020.[10][11]
A player of Colo-Colo until 2022, she made official her retirement in 2023.[6]
Coaching career[edit]
As a goalkeeping coach, she was a member of the technical staff of Luis Mena in Colo-Colo in 2022 and 2023. She followed him in the Chile national team.[12][2]
Personal life[edit]
At the age of eighteen, she worked in a McDonald's restaurant. She later graduated as a podiatrist.[2]
Honours[edit]
Colo-Colo
References[edit]
- ^ "CAROLINA ARMIJO". ANFP (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ a b c Valeria, Marco (4 September 2023). "Preparadora de arqueras de la Roja comenzó haciendo hamburguesas". Las Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Colo Colo, nueve veces campeonas" (PDF). Memoria 2014 (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: ANFP: 54. 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Colo Colo clasifica a la Copa Libertadores tras derrotar de manera agónica a Palestino". Teletrece (in Spanish). Canal 13. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "COLO COLO ES PENTACAMPEÓN DEL FÚTBOL FEMENINO". ANFP (in Spanish). 23 December 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ a b Molina, Geraldine (8 April 2023). "Carolina Armijo es la 4º campeona de Libertadores con Colo-Colo retirada". Contragolpe (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Carolina Armijo Migra a Colombia". www.CCDesdeQueNaci.cl (in Spanish). 16 February 2018. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ (DSL Deportes & Noticias) Carolina Armijo, Jugadora del Cúcuta Deportivo on YouTube (in Spanish). 20 February 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ "Todo listo para la Copa América: Estas son las 22 elegidas que representarán a Chile en el torneo". El Desconcierto (in Spanish). 25 March 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ @laroja (22 May 2018). "La Selección Femenina volvió este martes a los trabajos de cara a los dos amistosos ante Costa Rica" (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024 – via Instagram.
- ^ "La Roja Femenina trabajará con contingente local en la fecha FIFA de octubre". www.laroja.cl (in Spanish). FFCh. 16 October 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
- ^ Molina, Geraldine (16 May 2023). "Oficial: Luis Mena es confirmado como nuevo DT de La Roja Femenina". RedGol (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
External links[edit]
- Carolina Armijo at Soccerway
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- 1987 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Santiago
- Chilean women's footballers
- Chile women's international footballers
- Women's association football goalkeepers
- Colo-Colo (women) footballers
- Cúcuta Deportivo footballers
- Chilean expatriate women's footballers
- Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Colombia
- Expatriate women's footballers in Colombia
- Chilean football goalkeeper stubs
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