Photo: Carlos Figueroa / CC BY-SA 4.0 (source: Wikimedia Commons)
My Take
Esteban Paredes is the kind of striker who gives me chills for staying home. Five-time top scorer in Chile's Primera División, more than 286 career league goals and the country's all-time scoring record, he built a legend not in a European league but on home soil at clubs like Colo-Colo. South American football tends to celebrate the players who leave, yet I am far more moved by the one who put down roots and kept burying chances until he became history. Now managing from the dugout, he strikes me as a national treasure adored on the pitch and off it alike.
Overview
Esteban Efraín Paredes Quintanilla (born 1 August 1980) is a Chilean football manager and former footballer who played as a forward. He is currently in charge of Santiago Morning. Paredes is the first player to be five-time Primera División de Chile top goalscorer and has scored 286 league goals in his career, highlighting his 217–Primera División de Chile goals record which allowed him to be the all-time top goalsco…
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Esteban Paredes
- Name (Japanese)
- エステバン・パレデス
- Reading
- えすてばん・ぱれです
- Born
- August 1, 1980 (age 45)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Leo / Monkey
- Origin
- Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- 178 cm
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- association football player
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Private
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.