Carlos Patricio Mac Allister (born 20 March 1966) is an Argentine former professional

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who played as a

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for clubs in Argentina, Mexico and Japan.

Career

Born in

Santa Rosa, La Pampa Santa Rosa () is a city in the Argentine Pampas (lowlands), and the capital of La Pampa Province, Argentina. It lies on the east of the province, on the shore of the Don Tomás Lagoon, at the intersection of National Routes National Route 5 and ...

, Mac Allister began playing football with local side

General Belgrano de Santa Rosa Club General Belgrano de Santa Rosa is a football team from Santa Rosa, La Pampa, Argentina. Background Club Defensores de Belgrano was founded on 28 April 1919 in Santa Rosa, the capital of the La Pampa Province. The club name was later shor ...

. He made his Primera debut with

Estudiantes de la Plata ( lit. "La Plata Students"), simply referred to as Estudiantes de La Plata, is an Argentine professional sports club based in La Plata. The club's football team currently competes in the Primera División, where it has spent most of its histo ...

in 1989. He also played in the first team of

Argentinos Juniors Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors is an Argentine sports club based in La Paternal, Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its association football, football team, which currently plays in the Argentine Primera División, and was reco ...

. Mac Allister had a spell in Mexico with

Correcaminos UAT Club de Fútbol Correcaminos de la Universidad Autónoma de Tamaulipas, simply known as Correcaminos UAT, is a Mexican professional football club based in Ciudad Victoria, Tamaulipas. It competes in Liga de Expansión MX, the second level divisi ...

and then moved to Japan to play for

Mitsubishi Motors is a Japanese Multinational corporation, multinational Automotive industry, automobile manufacturer headquartered in Minato, Tokyo, Japan.

Post-playing career

In 1998, the Mac Allister brothers, Carlos Javier and Carlos Patricio, decided to found their own sports club for youngsters, the MacAllister Sports Club. They acquired a four-hectare piece of land situated 5 km away from the centre of the city of

, where they built their own club to instruct and promote soccer players for their subsequent insertion into professional soccer. Patricio Mac Allister served as coach of the club's youth teams since 1999, and has also coached for

and the youth teams of

Personal life

Mac Allister is the older brother of former professional footballer Carlos Mac Allister, and he has three nephews who are also professional footballers:

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and

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. Mac Allister is of Irish and

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descent. Although assumed to be of Scottish heritage, Mac Allister's family origins were instead from the Irish town of

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