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Full name | César Ignacio Pérez Maldonado | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | 29 November 2002 | ||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Cerrillos, Santiago, Chile | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Unión La Calera | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 29 | ||||||||||||||||
Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
2013–2019 | Magallanes | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2019–2022 | Magallanes | 42 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
2022– | Unión La Calera | 18 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2015 | Chile U15 | 5 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2019 | Chile U17 | 11 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2020 | Chile U20 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2022– | Chile U23 | 10 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2023– | Chile | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 6 October 2022 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 26 March 2024 |
César Ignacio Pérez Maldonado (born 29 November 2002) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Unión La Calera.
Pérez came to Magallanes youth system in 2013 and joined the first team in 2019. [1] After spending four seasons in the Primera B de Chile with Magallanes, for the 2022 season he moved to Unión La Calera in the Chilean Primera División. [2]
At youth level, Pérez represented Chile at under-15 level in the 2017 South American Championship [3] and Chile U17 at both the 2019 South American Championship, where Chile was the runner-up, and the 2019 FIFA World Cup. [4]
At under-20 level, he represented Chile in the Granja Comary International Tournament, a friendly championship in Teresópolis, Brazil, playing all the matches against Peru U20, [5] Bolivia U20, [6] and Brazil U20. [7]
On 31 August 2022, he represented Chile at under-23 level in a 1–0 win against Peru U23. [8] He was included in the final squad for the 2023 Pan American Games, [9] [10] where Chile won the silver medal. [11] In 2024, he took part in the Pre-Olympic Tournament. [12]
At senior level, he was called up to the training microcycle in March 2021 of Chile by the coach Martín Lasarte along with his teammate Julián Alfaro. [13] He received his first call-up for the friendly matches in June 2023 [14] and made his debut in the 2026 FIFA World Cup qualifier against Ecuador on 21 November 2023 by replacing Erick Pulgar at the minute 70. [15]
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Chile | 2023 | 1 | 0 |
2024 | 2 | 0 | |
Total | 3 | 0 |
Chile U23