Juan Zárate

Juan Zárate Iglesias was an Argentine footballer.

Career
As a youth player, Zárate was with General Paz from Villa Devoto, Chacarita Juniors and Ferro Carril Oeste. In his homeland, he played for the reserve team of River Plate and Nacional Vélez Sarsfield Pacífico before moving to Chile.

In Chile, he played for Green Cross, becoming a historical player, Audax Italiano, Santiago Wanderers, Unión Española and Ferrobádminton.

In Chilean football, he scored 104 goals in 156 games.

As a football coach, he worked in the Cobresal youth ranks since the foundation of the club in 1979, leading the senior team in the same year and stints in both the second and the first division of the Chilean football. As coach of the youth ranks, he took part in the training and promotion to the first team of the successful Chile international Iván Zamorano.

Club

 * Audax Italiano
 * Campeonato Nacional (Chile): 1948

Individual

 * Campeonato Nacional (Chile) Top-Scorer (2): 1945, 1948