Francisco Antonio Salinas Concha (born 4 December 1999) is a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in western South America. It is the southernmost country in the world and the closest to Antarctica, stretching along a narrow strip of land between the Andes, Andes Mountains and the Paci ...

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who plays as a

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for

Coquimbo Unido Coquimbo Unido is a Chilean football club based in the city of Coquimbo. The club was founded in 1958 and has played in the Chilean Primera División since being promoted in 2022. Their home games are played at the Estadio Municipal Francisco Sán ...

on loan from

Unión San Felipe Unión San Felipe is a Chilean football club, their hometown is San Felipe in the V Región of Valparaíso. They play in the second level of the Chilean football league, the Primera B. The club was founded on October 16, 1956 with the merger ...

Club career

Born in

San Felipe, Chile San Felipe (; "St. Philip" in Spanish) is a commune and the capital city of the San Felipe de Aconcagua Province in central Chile's Valparaíso Region. Until 1976, it was the capital of Aconcagua province, a first-level administrative division ...

, Salinas came to the

youth system in 2014 and signed his first professional contract in January 2019. Despite he was with the first team since 2017 as a substitute player, he made his debut in the first matchday of the 2019 season against Barnechea on 16 February. A regular player for four seasons with Unión San Felipe, he was loaned out to

Unión La Calera Unión La Calera is a Chilean football club based in La Calera, Chile. The club competes in the Primera División de Chile. It was founded as Club de Deportes La Calera on 26 January 1954, after the merger of three teams from the city: ''Condor' ...

in the Chilean top division for the 2023 season, making his debut in a friendly match against River Plate on 22 December 2022. At league level, he made twenty five appearances, scored two goals and made three assists. In 2024, Salinas was loaned out to

in the same division, a club qualified to the

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. After a brief stint with Unión San Felipe in the second half of 2024, he returned to Coquimbo Unido.

Personal life

Salinas is nicknamed ''Coreano'' (

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) due to his resemblance to

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Salinas, Francisco 1999 births Living people Footballers from San Felipe, Chile Chilean men's footballers 21st-century Chilean sportsmen Unión San Felipe footballers Unión La Calera footballers Coquimbo Unido footballers Primera B de Chile players Chilean Primera División players Men's association football defenders