Claudio Abarca

Claudio Abarca
Personal information
Full name Claudio Antonio Abarca Gálvez
Date of birth (1994-01-07) 7 January 1994
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team
 Provincial Ovalle
Number 18
Youth career
Palestino
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2016 Palestino
2013 → Barnechea (loan)
2013–2014 → Trasandino (loan) 1 (0)
2014–2015 → San Antonio Unido (loan)
2016 General Velásquez
2017 Universidad Central
2019 La Pintana Unida
2021 Iberia 19 (0)
2022 Rodelindo Román 22 (0)
2023 Real San Joaquín 13 (0)
2023–2024 San Marcos 14 (0)
2025 Deportes Rengo 12 (2)
2026– Provincial Ovalle 0 (0)
International career
2010 Chile U17
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 30 January 2026

Claudio Antonio Abarca Gálvez (born 7 January 1994) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Provincial Ovalle.

Club career

A product of Palestino youth system, Abarca played on loan at Barnechea, Trasandino and San Antonio Unido.

After leaving Palestino, he played for General Velásquez before moving to Venezuelan side Universidad Central in 2017.[1]

Back in Chile, he played for La Pintana Unida,[2][3] Iberia[4] and Rodelindo Román in 2022.[5]

In the first half of 2023, he played for Real San Joaquín, and switched to San Marcos de Arica for the second half of the same year.[6]

On 28 January 2026, Abarca joined Provincial Ovalle.[7]

Controversies

In 2016, as a player of General Velásquez, Abarca kicked on the head to Diego Díaz, player of Deportivo Estación Central,[8] and was punished with four years with no playing for a Chilean club.[1]

International career

Abarca represented Chile U17 at the 2010 South American Games.[9]

References

  1. 1 2 "El inesperado presente del arquero castigado por 4 años". Diario AS (in Spanish). AS Chile. 9 February 2017. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  2. ↑ "La Pintana Unida amargó el debut en casa de Pumas FC". Portal 3Division.cl (in Spanish). 1 April 2019. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  3. ↑ "Claudio Abarca - Sifup". sifup.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  4. ↑ Matus, Norman (1 April 2021). "Bajo las órdenes del DT. Eduardo Lobos, el nuevo Iberia 2021 ya entrena con miras al próximo campeonato". La Tribuna (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  5. ↑ (Sifup Chile) Todo el éxito para Claudio Abarca on Facebook (in Spanish). 22 February 2022. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  6. ↑ "(Oficial) Tendrá su revancha: San Marcos de Arica tiene a su primer refuerzo para la segunda rueda". PrimeraBChile.cl (in Spanish). 23 June 2023. Retrieved 1 July 2023.
  7. ↑ Osorio, Nicolás (28 January 2026). "Provincial Ovalle remueve el mercado y suma refuerzos". PrimeraBChile.cl (in Spanish). Retrieved 30 January 2026.
  8. ↑ "Esta es la patada criminal que escandaliza al fútbol chileno". AS.com (in Spanish). Diario AS. 28 September 2016. Retrieved 25 January 2023.
  9. ↑ "Nóminas de Chile para Juegos Suramericanos". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 10 November 2023.
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