Marcelo Miranda (footballer)

Marcelo Miranda
Personal information
Full name	Marcelo Alejandro Miranda Díaz
Date of birth	29 January 1967 (age 57)
Place of birth	Santiago, Chile
Position(s)	Left-back
Youth career
	Universidad de Chile
Senior career*
Years	Team
0000–1988	Universidad de Chile
1988	→ Malleco Unido (loan)
1989–1991	Deportes Concepción
1992–2000	Cobreloa
2001	Colo-Colo
International career
1991–1997	Chile
Managerial career
2006	Hossana
2007	Malleco Unido
2008–2010	Naval
2010	Unión Temuco
2011–2012	Lota Schwager
2012	Naval (interim)
2013	Deportes Copiapó
2014–2015	Lota Schwager
2018–	Deportes Melipilla (youth)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Marcelo Alejandro Miranda Díaz (born 29 January 1967) is a Chilean football manager and former footballer.^[1]

Club career

Miranda played for Malleco Unido at the Segunda División and Deportes Concepción with the Argentine-Chilean Fernando Cavalleri as manager. With the same manager, he joined Cobreloa in 1992 and played for the club for nine years,^[2] winning the 1992 Primera División de Chile.^[3]

He played in 15 matches for the Chile national football team from 1991 to 1997.^[4] He was also part of Chile's squad for the 1997 Copa América tournament.^[5]

In 2006, he began his managerial career in Hossana, a club of the evangelical community, in the Chilean Tercera División.^[6] Later, he managed several clubs at the Tercera División and Primera B such as Lota Schwager and Deportes Copiapó.^[7]

^ "Marcelo Miranda". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
^ "Campeón con Cobreloa reveló el sueño no cumplido en el club". enlalinea.cl (in Spanish). 5 July 2020. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ "Cobreloa Campeón 1992". Cobreloa (in Spanish). 7 January 2021. Retrieved 18 October 2021.
^ "Marcelo Miranda". National Football Teams. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
^ "Copa América 1997". RSSSF. Retrieved 28 August 2021.
^ Retamal, Rodrigo (15 March 2017). "Hosanna y Cristo Salva: El clásico más freak que tuvo el fútbol chileno". La Tercera. Retrieved 18 October 2021. en 2006 Hosanna nuevamente fue protagonista. Esta vez, el equipo quedó a cargo de Marcelo Miranda
^ "Fútbol: Marcelo Miranda se convirtió en el nuevo entrenador de Deportes Copiapó". El Mostrador (in Spanish). 19 June 2013. Retrieved 18 October 2021.