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Chilean footballer (born 1997)

Martín Arenas
Personal information
Full name Martín Nicolás Arenas Jara
Date of birth (1997-01-23) 23 January 1997 (age 27)
Place of birth Valparaíso, Chile
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Winger
Youth career
Águilas Verdes
Unión Salles
Santiago Wanderers
2015–2017 Villarreal
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2014 Santiago Wanderers
2016–2017 Villarreal C 21 (5)
2017–2018 Universidad de Chile
2018 → Magallanes (loan) 23 (1)
2019–2021 Magallanes 39 (1)
2022–2023 Deportes Melipilla 4 (0)
2022 → Lautaro de Buin (loan) 3 (0)
International career
2011 Chile U15
2015 Chile U20
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 February 2024

Martín Nicolás Arenas Jara (born 23 January 1997) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a winger.

Club career

As a youth player, Arenas was with Águilas Verdes, Unión Salles and Santiago Wanderers in his city of birth, Valparaíso. A member of the Santiago Wanderers first team in 2014, he moved to Spain and signed with Villarreal in January 2015, playing first for the Juvenil A team, with whom he won the Group VII of the División de Honor, and also training with the first team. He after made twenty one appearances and scored five goals for Villarreal C in the 2016–17 Tercera División.

In the second half of 2017, he returned to Chile and joined Universidad de Chile on a deal for eighteen months. The next year, he joined Magallanes and played for them until the 2021 season.

In 2022, he signed with Deportes Melipilla and was loaned out to Lautaro de Buin in the second half of the year.

International career

Arenas represented Chile at under-15 level in the 2011 South American Championship.

At under-20 level, he represented Chile in the 2015 L'Alcúdia Tournament under Nicolás Córdova, where they became champions. He was called up to the squad for the 2017 South American Championship under Héctor Robles, but he suffered a muscle strain.

Honours

Villarreal Juvenil A

Chile U20

Personal life

At the beginning of his career, he was nicknamed Niño Maravilla (Wonder Boy) like Alexis Sánchez.

References

  1. "Martín Arenas". livefutbol.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  2. ^ Roca Castelló, Juan Francisco (23 February 2016). "Martín Arenas, el «Niño Maravilla»". Levante-EMV (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 December 2021. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  3. "Wanderers en Campeonato de Primera División Apertura 2014". Memoria Wanderers (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 27 September 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  4. Salas, Cristian (25 December 2015). "Martín Arenas, el chileno que brilla en la Sub 20 del Villarreal". Diario AS (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  5. ^ Mayo, Alejandro (20 June 2017). "La joya porteña que repatria la U". La Tercera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 25 September 2020. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  6. "Jugador que pasó por Europa y la U llega a reforzar a Magallanes". En Cancha (in Spanish). 9 January 2018. Archived from the original on 9 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  7. ^ "Deportes Melipilla anunció el fichaje de Martín Arenas". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 20 January 2022. Archived from the original on 23 May 2022. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  8. "🎥🎙️ Martín Arenas: "Vengo con muchas ganas de demostrar todo lo que tengo"". www.facebook.com (in Spanish). Deportes Melipilla. 20 January 2022. Archived from the original on 9 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  9. Ilic, Gabriel (18 July 2022). "Jugó en Europa: La olvidada expromesa de la U que llega a Lautaro de Buin". En Cancha (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  10. @deportesmelipilla (8 January 2023). "✅ Martín Arenas mantiene contrato vigente con nuestro club, y seguirá en "Los Potros de Melipilla" para la temporada 2023🔥🐎" (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 February 2024 – via Instagram.
  11. "Nóminas de Chile para Campeonatos Sudamericanos Sub-15". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 21 October 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  12. "SELECCIÓN CHILENA SUB 20 VIAJÓ A ESPAÑA PARA DISPUTAR EL TORNEO DE ALCUDIA". ANFP (in Spanish). 6 August 2015. Archived from the original on 20 November 2023. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  13. Contreras, J. (19 August 2015). "Chile es campeón del torneo de L'Alcudia". La Tercera (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 2 February 2017. Retrieved 8 February 2024.
  14. "Martín Arenas se realizó exámenes médicos y está a un paso de cerrar su llegada a la U". alairelibre.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 20 June 2017. Archived from the original on 9 February 2024. Retrieved 8 February 2024.

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