| Juan Carlos Gaete | |
| Fullname: | Juan Carlos Darío Gaete Contreras |
| Birth Date: | 21 May 1997 |
| Birth Place: | Santiago, Chile |
| Height: | 1.75 m |
| Position: | Forward |
| Currentclub: | Deportes Copiapó (on loan from Colo-Colo) |
| Youthclubs1: | Deportes La Serena |
| Youthclubs2: | Magallanes |
| Years1: | 2014–2017 |
| Caps1: | 12 |
| Goals1: | 0 |
| Years2: | 2015–2017 |
| Clubs2: | → Deportes Santa Cruz (loan) |
| Caps2: | 59 |
| Goals2: | 22 |
| Years3: | 2018 |
| Clubs3: | Cobresal |
| Caps3: | 30 |
| Goals3: | 9 |
| Years4: | 2019 |
| Clubs4: | Colo-Colo |
| Caps4: | 0 |
| Goals4: | 0 |
| Years5: | 2019 |
| Clubs5: | → Deportes Santa Cruz (loan) |
| Caps5: | 13 |
| Goals5: | 1 |
| Years6: | 2019–2020 |
| Clubs6: | Cobresal |
| Caps6: | 38 |
| Goals6: | 8 |
| Years7: | 2021– |
| Clubs7: | Colo-Colo |
| Caps7: | 5 |
| Goals7: | 1 |
| Years8: | 2021–2022 |
| Clubs8: | → Cobresal (loan) |
| Caps8: | 41 |
| Goals8: | 2 |
| Years9: | 2023 |
| Clubs9: | → Unión La Calera (loan) |
| Caps9: | 14 |
| Goals9: | 2 |
| Years10: | 2023 |
| Clubs10: | → San Luis (loan) |
| Caps10: | 11 |
| Goals10: | 1 |
| Years11: | 2024– |
| Clubs11: | → Deportes Copiapó (loan) |
| Caps11: | 0 |
| Goals11: | 0 |
| Pcupdate: | 9 January 2024 |
Juan Carlos Darío Gaete Contreras (born 21 May 1997), known as Juan Carlos Gaete, is a Chilean footballer who plays as a forward for Deportes Copiapó on loan from Colo-Colo.
As a youth player, Gaete was with Deportes La Serena.[1]
In July 2023, he ended his loan from Colo-Colo with Unión La Calera and switched to San Luis de Quillota in the Primera B until the end of the season.[2] [3] The next year, he was loaned to Deportes Copiapó in the top level.[4]
On 2019 season, Gaete joined Colo-Colo from Cobresal,[5] but he left the training preseason in Buenos Aires returning to Chile to think about his future, according to Colo-Colo.[6] Finally he was loaned to Deportes Santa Cruz at the Primera B,[7] where again he had a similar episode.[8]
On 12 August 2020, he told the reasons why left Colo-Colo, arguing he was disagreed with the money.[9]
He received his first call up to the Chile senior team to play the 2022 FIFA World Cup qualification matches against Uruguay and Colombia on 8 and 13 October respectively,[10] but he was withdrawn from the squad due to injury before the second match.[11]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Magallanes | 2014-15 | Primera B | 12 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 17 | 0 | |
| Santa Cruz (loan) | 2015–16 | Segunda División | 23 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 9 | |
| 2016–17 | 26 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 26 | 11 | |||
| 2017-T | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 10 | 2 | |||
| 2019 | Primera B | 13 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | ||
| Total | 72 | 23 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 73 | 23 | |||
| Cobresal | 2018 | Primera B | 30 | 9 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 37 | 10 | |
| 2019 | Primera División | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 1 | ||
| 2020 | 13 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 4 | |||
| Total | 50 | 14 | 7 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 57 | 15 | |||
| Total career | 134 | 37 | 13[12] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 147 | 38 | |||