Gabriel Omar Carabalí Quiñonez (born June 12, 1997), known as Omar Carabalí, is an

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- Chilean

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who plays as

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for O'Higgins in the

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. Born in

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, Carabalí has also represented

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internationally.

Career

Colo-Colo

On 2013, he arrived to

Colo-Colo Colo-Colo (), officially Club Social y Deportivo Colo-Colo, is a Chilean professional football club based in Macul, Santiago. Founded in 1925 by David Arellano, it competes in the Chilean Primera División, from which the club has never been ...

from

ian club Independiente José Terán. He signed his first contract as professional player on 2015 at the age of 18 years being only considered as a substitute on some matches. He ended his contract at the end of the 2024 season.

San Luis (loan)

He was loaned to

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for all 2020 season.

Unión La Calera (loan)

For the 2023 season, Carabalí was loaned 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' ...

Audax Italiano (loan)

In the second half of 2024, Carabalí was loaned out to

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until the end of the season.

O'Higgins

Carabalí signed with O'Higgins for the 2025 season.

International career

He was called up for Ecuador U20 to play at the 2017 South American U20 Championship and 2017 FIFA U20 World Cup, but he didn't play any match. So, after his nationalization by

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according to Chilean law, he decided to play for Chile national team. He played four matches for Chile U23 at the 2020 Pre-Olympic Tournament, but Chile didn't advance to the second stage. He was later called up for a training ''microcycle'' by Chile national team's coach,

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. He received his first call up to the Chile senior team to play the

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matches against

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and

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on 8 and 13 October 2020 respectively, but he didn't make his international debut at senior level.

Personal life

He is the son of Wilson Carabalí, a former

international footballer, and brother of Wilson Carabalí Jr., who came to Chile along with him looking for an opportunity in Chilean football too. Also, his father is the cousin of the former Ecuadorian international footballer

Héctor Carabalí Héctor Jhonny Carabalí Cevallos (born February 15, 1972) is a retired Ecuador Ecuador, officially the Republic of Ecuador, is a country in northwestern South America, bordered by Colombia on the north, Peru on the east and south, and th ...

Honours

;Colo-Colo * Primera División (2): 2015-A, 2017-Transición *

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(2):

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Carabali, Omar Living people 1997 births Footballers from Guayaquil Chilean men's footballers Chile men's youth international footballers Ecuadorian men's footballers Ecuadorian expatriate men's footballers Ecuador men's youth international footballers Ecuadorian emigrants to Chile Naturalized citizens of Chile Colo-Colo footballers San Luis de Quillota footballers Unión La Calera footballers Audax Italiano footballers O'Higgins F.C. footballers Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Men's association football goalkeepers Ecuadorian expatriate sportspeople in Chile Expatriate men's footballers in Chile