Patricio Andrés Lira Navarrete (born 10 March 1979) is a Chilean

football manager ''Football Manager'', also known as ''Worldwide Soccer Manager'' in North America from 2004 to 2008, is a series of football management simulation video games developed by British developer Sports Interactive and published by Sega. The game beg ...

and former football midfielder.

Club career

Lira was born in

Temuco Temuco () is a List of cities in Chile, city and Communes of Chile, commune, capital (political), capital of the Cautín Province and of the Araucanía Region in southern Chile. The city is located south of Santiago de Chile, Santiago. The cit ...

, Chile. He began his playing career with

Deportes Temuco Club de Deportes Temuco is a Chile, Chilean Soccer, football club based in Temuco, Araucanía Region. It currently plays in the Primera B de Chile, Chilean Primera División B, holding home games at the new ''Estadio Municipal Germán Becker''. T ...

, having also played for

Cobresal Club de Deportes Cobresal, or simply Cobresal, is a Chilean football club based in El Salvador, Atacama, a Chilean mining camp, and participates in Campeonato Nacional. The team was founded on 5 May 1979, and the name of the club comes from the ...

and

Ñublense Club Deportivo Ñublense () is a professional Association football, football team based in Chillán, Ñuble Region, Chile. The club was formed in 1916 under the name of Liceo Fútbol Club. They compete in Chile's Chilean Primera División, Primer ...

. He joined

Unión Temuco Club Deportivo Unión Temuco was a Chilean professional football club based in Temuco, La Araucanía Region. The club played at the Chilean Primera División B, Primera B, the second tier of the Chilean football, until 2013 when it was folded. The ...

in 2010.

Managerial career

In 2012, Lira began his managerial career as the

assistant coach An athletic coach is a person coaching in sport, involved in the direction, instruction, and training of a sports team or athlete. History The original sense of the word ''Coach'' is that of a Coach (carriage), horse-drawn carriage, deriving ul ...

of Carlos Girardengo in

. In 2019, he took the charge as the head coach of Deportes Temuco after Hugo Vilches was released. In 2022, he became the manager of

Fernández Vial Fernández () is a Spanish patronymic surname meaning "son of Fernando" of Germanic origin. The Germanic name Ferdinand that it derives from ( Gothic: ''Frið-nanð'') means "brave traveler." The Portuguese version of this surname is Fernandes. ...

References

External links

* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Lira, Patricio 1979 births Living people Chilean men's footballers Footballers from Temuco Men's association football midfielders Chilean Primera División players Primera B de Chile players Deportes Temuco footballers C.D. Cobresal footballers Ñublense footballers C.D. Antofagasta footballers Unión Temuco footballers Chilean football managers Primera B de Chile managers Deportes Temuco managers Arturo Fernández Vial managers