José Luis Sierra

What I like about José Luis Sierra, known affectionately as Coto, is that his whole life has been poured into football with barely a pause. A midfielder from Santiago who enjoyed a long playing career, he retired in 2009 and was already coaching his beloved Unión Española the very next year. That instinct to immediately pass on hard-won wisdom to the next generation strikes me as admirable. Now managing Al-Wakrah, he has carried his craft from South America all the way to the Middle East, which speaks to real adaptability. And a man who keeps a warm nickname like Coto for decades was surely the kind of figure people genuinely loved to play for.

Name (English)

José Luis Sierra

Name (Japanese)

ホセ・ルイス・シエラ

Reading

ほせ・るいす・しえら

Born

December 5, 1968 (age 57)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Monkey

Origin

Santiago, Santiago Metropolitan Region, Chile

Height

181 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Motto

Private

• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9B%E3%82%BB%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%82%A4%E3%82%B9%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%82%A8%E3%83%A9

Tags

• Santiago Metropolitan Region
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.