Alejandro Andrés Contreras Daza (born 3 March 1993) is a Chilean

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who plays as a defender for

San Marcos de Arica Club Deportivo San Marcos de Arica, also known as San Marcos, is a Chilean professional football club based in Arica, that is a current member of the Primera B of Chile. The club was founded on February 14, 1978. Between 1978 and 2005, the club ...

Club career

Contreras began his career playing for the

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youth team and was part of the squad that won the 2012 U-20 national championship. He made his debut in the

Chilean Primera División The Chilean Primera División () is a professional association football league in Chile and the highest level of the Chilean football league system. Founded in 1933, it is organized by the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP). The l ...

on 31 March 2013 scoring against

Deportes Antofagasta Deportes Antofagasta is a Chilean football club based in the city of Antofagasta currently playing in the Primera B Of Chile. The club's home stadium is the Estadio Bicentenario Calvo y Bascuñán, which has a capacity of 21,178. History The c ...

. In 2024, he moved abroad by first time in his career and signed with

Primera Nacional Primera Nacional (usually called simply Nacional B, (English "National B Division"), and known as Primera B Nacional until the 2019–20 season) is the second division of the Argentine football league system. The competition is made up of 38 teams ...

side Nueva Chicago. Back in Chile, Contreras joined

for the 2025 season.

International career

Contreras was selected to play for the Chile national under-20 football team in the

2013 South American Youth Championship The 2013 South American Youth Football Championship (, ) was an association football competition for national under-20 teams in the South America (CONMEBOL). The tournament was held in Argentina from 9 January to 3 February 2013 and was won by Col ...

by team manager Mario Salas. Success in this tournament took Contreras and the team to the

2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup The 2013 FIFA U-20 World Cup was the nineteenth edition of the FIFA U-20 World Cup, since its inception in 1977 as the FIFA World Youth Championship. It ran from 21 June to 13 July 2013. At the FIFA Executive Meeting in Zürich on 3 March 2011, ...

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1993 births Living people Footballers from Santiago, Chile Chilean men's footballers 21st-century Chilean sportsmen Chilean expatriate men's footballers Chile men's under-20 international footballers Club Deportivo Palestino footballers Club Universidad de Chile footballers O'Higgins F.C. footballers Deportes Iquique footballers Santiago Morning footballers Deportes Temuco footballers Club Atlético Nueva Chicago footballers San Marcos de Arica footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Primera Nacional players Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Men's association football defenders {{Chile-footy-defender-stub