José Antonio Letelier Henríquez (born 23 May 1966) is a Chilean football

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and former

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. He has been head coach of the

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since 2015.

Playing career

Letelier started playing in the youth categories of

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, before switching to rivals

Colo-Colo Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo () is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano they play in the Chilean Primera División, from which they have never been relegated. The team has pla ...

where he was taken on as a professional in 1987. In 1988 Colo-Colo sent Letelier and three other young players – Francisco Huerta, Parcko Quiroz and René Pinto – on

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to Alianza Lima, whose team had perished in the 1987 Alianza Lima plane crash. After a further loan at

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, he returned to Colo-Colo and understudied Daniel Morón and

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in the club's

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-winning squad. He was signed by Mexican club

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, where he played in 1991 and 1992, coinciding with his compatriot Juan Gutiérrez. He then completed his career back in Chile, with stints at

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and

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Coaching career

After retiring as a player, Letelier trained as a

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and obtained his coaching licences from the Instituto Nacional del Fútbol (INAF). He began coaching goalkeepers in Colo-Colo's boys' teams, then took charge of the club's

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in 2010. He won the

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ten times in succession, the last nine under the

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format. When Colo-Colo won the

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, Letelier became the first individual to be part of winning squads in both the male and female Libertadores tournaments. In June 2015 he was appointed technical director of the

, with his first task to prepare an under 20 team for the

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. When the senior women's national team played their first fixture in three years in May 2017, they thrashed hapless

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12–0. At the

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, Letelier steered hosts Chile to a runners-up finish, securing qualification to their first ever

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* 1966 births Living people Footballers from Santiago Chilean footballers Colo-Colo footballers Club Alianza Lima footballers Deportes Valdivia footballers Atlético Morelia players C.D. Huachipato footballers Deportes Linares footballers Men's association football goalkeepers Chilean Primera División players Peruvian Primera División players Liga MX players Primera B de Chile players Chilean expatriate footballers Expatriate footballers in Peru Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Peru Expatriate footballers in Mexico Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Chilean football managers 2019 FIFA Women's World Cup managers Chile women's national football team managers {{Chile-footy-goalkeeper-stub