Walter Oscar Lemma (born 6 March 1973) is an Argentine football

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and former player who played as a

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. He is the current manager of Chilean club

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' ...

Playing career

Born in

Lanús Lanús () is the capital of Lanús Partido, Buenos Aires Province in Argentina. It lies just south of the capital city Buenos Aires, in the Greater Buenos Aires conurbation, metropolitan area. The List of cities in Argentina, city has a populati ...

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, Lemma made his senior debut with hometown side

before moving to

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 1995. In the following year, after being rarely used, he joined Banfield. After spells at Italian clubs

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and

Virtus Entella Virtus Entella, commonly referred to as Entella, is an Italian professional Association football, football club based in Chiavari, Liguria. Founded in 1914, the club currently competes in the . Entella will play in Serie B 2025/26 after winning ...

, Lemma returned to his home country in 2000 with

San Martín de San Juan Club Atlético San Martín, mostly known as San Martín de San Juan, is an Argentine football club from the city of San Juan. The team currently plays in the Argentine Liga Profesional de Futbol, the first division of the Argentine football league ...

. He retired in the following year, aged 28.

Managerial career

Lemma began his managerial career in 2009, after being named in charge of the youth sides of his first club Lanús. He moved to Talleres in 2015 under the same role, before replacing

Lucas Bovaglio Lucas Alfredo Bovaglio (born 19 April 1979) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as a central defender. He is the current manager of Palestino. Playing career He played for Argentine clubs Atlético Rafaela (1998–2000 ...

at the helm of the latter's reserve team on 21 July 2017. On 18 December 2019, Lemma left Talleres to become

Gustavo Quinteros Gustavo Domingo Quinteros Desábato (born 15 February 1965) is a Association football, football manager (association football), manager and former professional player who played mainly as a centre-back. Born in Argentina, Quinteros played for ...

' assistant at

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side

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. He followed Quinteros 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 ...

and

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, also as his assistant. On 5 June 2024, Lemma was presented as manager of

in Chile, which was his first managerial experience.

Managerial statistics

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