Israel Poblete | |
Fullname: | Israel Elías Poblete Zúñiga |
Birth Date: | 22 June 1995 |
Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
Height: | 1.75 m |
Position: | Midfielder |
Currentclub: | Universidad de Chile |
Clubnumber: | -- |
Youthyears1: | 2010–2014 |
Youthclubs1: | Cobresal |
Years1: | 2014–2019 |
Caps1: | 64 |
Goals1: | 6 |
Years2: | 2017–2018 |
Clubs2: | → Unión Española (loan) |
Caps2: | 42 |
Goals2: | 2 |
Years3: | 2020–2021 |
Caps3: | 29 |
Goals3: | 1 |
Years4: | 2022– |
Caps4: | 0 |
Goals4: | 0 |
Club-Update: | 21 January 2021 |
Israel Elías Poblete Zúñiga (born June 22, 1995) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a midfielder for Chilean Primera División club Universidad de Chile.
Poblete was born in Santiago,[1] but began his football career as a youngster with Cobresal, based in the mining town of El Salvador.[2] He made his first-team debut on October 25, 2014, as a second-half substitute in a 3–2 defeat away to Universidad de Concepción in the Primera División, and made four substitute appearances in the 2015 Clausura,[3] including the penultimate fixture of the season in which Cobreloa came back from 2–1 down to beat Barnechea 3–2 and clinch their first Primera title.[4] He played increasingly regularly over the next two seasons, but when Cobresal were relegated in the 2016–17 season, Poblete remained in the top flight, joining Unión Española on an 18-month loan.[5] He appeared in all but one of the 2017 Torneo de Transición matcheshalf as starter, half as substituteand contributed to the team's runners-up placing.[1] [3]
Cobresal
Unión Española