José Luis Sierra (footballer, born 1968)

José Luis Sierra

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Personal information
Full name	José Luis Sierra Pando
Date of birth	(1968-12-05) 5 December 1968
Place of birth	Santiago, Chile
Height	1.81 m (5 ft 11+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Attacking Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Colo-Colo (manager)
Youth career
1985–1988	Unión Española
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1988–1994	Unión Española	294	(60)
1989–1990	→ Real Valladolid (loan)	3	(0)
1995	São Paulo	8	(0)
1996–2001	Colo-Colo	144	(43)
1999	→ Tigres (loan)	13	(1)
2002–2009	Unión Española	206	(52)
International career‡
1991–2000	Chile	53	(8)
Managerial career
2009	Unión Española (caretaker)
2010–2015	Unión Española
2015–	Colo-Colo
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 24 July 2012 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 27 August 2007

José Luis "Coto" Sierra Pando (born December 5, 1968 in Santiago, Chile) is a Chilean football coach and former player. Playing in the midfield, he retired in 2009, and one year later he became the coach of his long-time team Union Española. He studied in the Colegio Hispano Americano, which belongs to Spanish residents in Chile. In 2015 he became the new coach of the most popular team in Chile, Colo Colo

Club career

Unión Española

Sierra made his debut in professional soccer with Unión Española on November 1988 against the Universidad de Chile. After two solid campaigns with Unión Española, Sierra was transferred to Real Valladolid in Spain. However during Sierra's short time in Spain, the team had economic problems which caused Sierra to return Unión Española. After more success he made his debut with the Chilean national team. Sierra won the Copa Chile with Unión Española in 1992 and 1993.

Colo-Colo

He then spent three successful years with Colo-Colo, which saw his team capture the championship in all three seasons. Currently Sierra has found his way back to Unión Española making a stop in between to play with UANL Tigres in Mexico for one season. He captured the Golden Boot in Chile (awarded to the best professional football player in Chile) in 2004 and 2005.

In 1997, it was widely rumoured that then Premier League side Everton manager Howard Kendall had made an approach to bring Sierra to Goodison Park. However for unknown reasons, possibly relating to lack of sufficient capital, Kendall decided to pull the plug on the deal.

Return to Unión Española

Sierra announced his retirement in December 2008 and accepted the position of manager with his beloved Unión Española, he will continue on the position until the end of the Clausura 2009 tournament.

International career

Sierra was capped 53 times and scored 8 goals for the Chilean national team between 1991 and 2000. He played four games at the 1998 FIFA World Cup, scoring a goal on a free-kick against Cameroon.

Honours

Club

Colo-Colo

• Primera División (2): 1996, 1998
• Torneo de Clausura (1): 1997
• Copa Chile (1): 1996

Unión Española

• Torneo de Apertura (1) : 2005
• Copa Chile (3): 1989, 1992, 1993

Individual

• Chilean Footballer of the Year (1): 2005

External links

• José Luis Sierra at National-Football-Teams.com