Yanara Aedo

Yanara Katherine Nicole Aedo Muñoz (born 5 August 1993) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Spanish Campeonato Nacional Fútbol Femenino club Colo-Colo and the Chile women's national team.

Club career
Aedo left Colo-Colo for American National Women's Soccer League team Washington Spirit in January 2015. She helped the club's reserve team win the 2015 USL W-League season championship, scoring twice in the 2–1 final win over Colorado Pride.

In September 2016, Aedo transferred to Spain's Primera División club Valencia CF Femenino. On 27 June 2017, the Washington Spirit announced that they had re-signed Aedo. She was placed on waivers by the Spirit on 21 June 2018.

On 13 July 2018 it was announced that Aedo was returning to Valencia CF Femenino, the club she had played with from 2016 to 2017. She left the Spanish club at the end of the season. After stints with Sevilla and Rayo Vallecano, Aedo returned to Chile to rejoin Colo-Colo, with Chilean outlets confirming the news on 6 September 2022.

International career
In early September 2010, seventeen-year-old Aedo represented Chile at the FIFA U-17 Women's World Cup. Later that month, she was named in Chile's 20-player senior squad for the 2010 South American Women's Football Championship in Ecuador. She scored the opening goal in Chile's 3–1 win over Peru. Aedo scored three goals at the 2018 Copa América Femenina, where Chile qualified to a FIFA Women's World Cup for the first time in its history.

She represented Chile at the 2023 Pan American Games, where Chile won the silver medal.

International goals
Scores and results list Chile's goal tally first

Honours
Colo-Colo
 * Primera División (10): 2011 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino (Apertura), 2011 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino (Clausura), 2012 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino (Apertura), 2012 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino (Clausura), 2013 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino (Apertura), 2013 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino (Clausura), 2014 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino (Apertura), 2014 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino (Clausura), 2022 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino, 2023 Campeonato Nacional de Fútbol Femenino

Chile
 * South American Games Silver medal: 2014
 * Copa América Runner-up: 2018
 * Torneio Internacional de Futebol Feminino: 2019
 * Turkish Women's Cup: 2020
 * Pan American Games Silver Medal: 2023

Individual
 * Premios FutFem - The Best: 2023