Pablo Contreras
Chilean footballer (born 1978) / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Pablo Andrés Contreras Fica (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpaβlo konˈtɾeɾas]; born 11 September 1978) is a Chilean retired footballer who last played for Melbourne Victory and the Chile national football team as a centre back or even as a right back.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Pablo Andrés Contreras Fica | ||
Date of birth | (1978-09-11) 11 September 1978 (age 45) | ||
Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||
Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre back | ||
Youth career | |||
1991–1996 | Colo-Colo | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1997–1999 | Colo-Colo | 37 | (2) |
1999–2001 | Monaco | 26 | (0) |
2001 | → Racing Club (loan) | 8 | (0) |
2001–2008 | Celta Vigo | 105 | (6) |
2001–2002 | → Osasuna (loan) | 31 | (1) |
2002–2003 | → Sporting CP (loan) | 30 | (2) |
2008 | Braga | 13 | (0) |
2008–2012 | PAOK | 106 | (6) |
2012 | Colo-Colo | 16 | (0) |
2012–2013 | Olympiacos | 17 | (1) |
2013–2014 | Melbourne Victory | 20 | (0) |
Total | 409 | (18) | |
International career | |||
1995 | Chile U17 | ||
1997 | Chile U20 | ||
2000 | Chile U23 | 12 | (1) |
1999–2012 | Chile | 67 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Contreras began his career at Colo-Colo. He earned his first senior honours in 1997, winning the Chilean Primera División title. He also won an Olympic bronze medal with Chile in the Sydney Games. Contreras moved to Europe in 1999, signing with French side Monaco, where he won the Ligue 1 in his first season.
After his spell in France, he was loaned to Argentine Primera División club Racing Club in 2001, and the next season Contreras joined Spain's La Liga side Celta de Vigo in a €4.2 million transfer deal. He was immediately loaned to Osasuna and then to Sporting CP, playing in the UEFA Champions League, before returning after to Celta. He played over 100 matches with the Galician club until the 2006–07 season, after Celta's relegation to the Segunda División, after which he decided to leave the club. He signed a six-month contract with Braga in January 2008 before moving in June of that year to Superleague Greece side PAOK. In the middle of the 2011–12 season, Conteras left the club due to the Greek government debt-crisis and opted to return to Colo-Colo, coached by Ivo Basay at the time.
A Chilean international on 66 occasions, Contreras was part of squad that earned the bronze medal in the 2000 Summer Olympics at Sydney. In his country, Pablo is nicknamed Espartaco by Chilevisión relator Paulo Flores specifically, referred him as the Spartan hero of his national team during the matches, when Contreras was under the orders of Claudio Borghi in Chile.