Jorge Arias (Chilean footballer)

Jorge Leonardo Arias Mujica (born 24 July 1952) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a midfielder for clubs in Chile and Spain.

Club career
As a child, Arias was with club Lautaro from Población San Gregorio neighborhood. He came to Magallanes at the age of fourteen and made his debut in 1972. He also played for Independiente de Cauquenes and Audax Italiano in the second level.

After playing for Magallanes, he joined Spanish side Levante UD thanks to his compatriot Carlos Caszely and spent three seasons with them, making seven appearances and scoring two goals in the 1976–77 season.

Back in Chile, he played for Unión Española, Deportes Ovalle, Ñublense, Green Cross-Temuco and Magallanes again.

He ended his career playing for Good Year from Maipú and Deportes Maipo in the Chilean Tercera División.

But, he returned to play in 1992 for Municipal Talagante, Magallanes, Deportes Antofagasta and Santiago Wanderers. In 1995, he led Magallanes at the age of forty three as the team captain in the league title of the Chilean Tercera División, alongside players such as Darío Scatolaro, Carlos Vega and Cristian Olivares.

International career
Arias represented Chile at under-20 level in the 1971 South American Championship with Fernando Riera as coach.

Personal life
He has seven siblings and five of them were footballers who played for Magallanes: Juan, Antonio, a Chile international, Óscar, Enrique and Miguel Ángel.