Carolina Armijo

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Armijo and the second or maternal family name is Lira.

Carolina Armijo

Personal information
Full name	Carolina Andrea Armijo Lira
Date of birth	(1987-11-28) 28 November 1987 (age 37)
Place of birth	Santiago, Chile
Height	1.63 m (5 ft 4 in)[1]
Position(s)	Goalkeeper
Team information
Current team	Chile (women) (goalkeeping coach)
Youth career
	Universidad de Chile
	Everton [es]
	Colo-Colo
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2012–2017	Colo-Colo
2018	Cúcuta Deportivo [es]
2018–2022	Colo-Colo
International career
2018–2020	Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Carolina Andrea Armijo Lira (born 28 November 1987) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a goalkeeper. She is currently the goalkeeping coach of the Chile women's national team.

Playing career

As a youth player, Armijo had stints with Universidad de Chile and Everton ^[es].^[2] At senior level, she played almost all her career for Colo-Colo,^[3][4] winning her first league title in 2012.^[5] In the same year, she won the Copa Libertadores.^[6]

Abroad, she had a stint with Colombian club Cúcuta Deportivo ^[es] in 2018.^[7][8]

At international level, she was a member of the Chile squad that was the runner-up in the 2018 Copa América Femenina.^[9] She went on being a member of the team until 2020.^[10][11]

A player of Colo-Colo until 2022, she made official her retirement in 2023.^[6]

Coaching career

As a goalkeeping coach, she was a member of the technical staff of Luis Mena in Colo-Colo in 2022 and 2023. She followed him in the Chile national team.^[12][2]

Personal life

At the age of eighteen, she worked in a McDonald's restaurant. She later graduated as a podiatrist.^[2]

Honours

Colo-Colo

• Copa Libertadores Femenina: 2012

References

1. "CAROLINA ARMIJO". ANFP (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
2. Valeria, Marco (4 September 2023). "Preparadora de arqueras de la Roja comenzó haciendo hamburguesas". Las Últimas Noticias (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
3. "Colo Colo, nueve veces campeonas" (PDF). Memoria 2014 (in Spanish). Santiago, Chile: ANFP: 54. 2015. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
4. "Colo Colo clasifica a la Copa Libertadores tras derrotar de manera agónica a Palestino". Teletrece (in Spanish). Canal 13. 15 August 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
5. "COLO COLO ES PENTACAMPEÓN DEL FÚTBOL FEMENINO". ANFP (in Spanish). 23 December 2012. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
6. Molina, Geraldine (8 April 2023). "Carolina Armijo es la 4º campeona de Libertadores con Colo-Colo retirada". Contragolpe (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.
7. "Carolina Armijo Migra a Colombia". www.CCDesdeQueNaci.cl (in Spanish). 16 February 2018. Archived from the original on 3 May 2019. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
8. (DSL Deportes & Noticias) Carolina Armijo, Jugadora del Cúcuta Deportivo on YouTube (in Spanish). 20 February 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
9. "Todo listo para la Copa América: Estas son las 22 elegidas que representarán a Chile en el torneo". El Desconcierto (in Spanish). 25 March 2018. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
10. @laroja (22 May 2018). "La Selección Femenina volvió este martes a los trabajos de cara a los dos amistosos ante Costa Rica" (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024 – via Instagram.
11. "La Roja Femenina trabajará con contingente local en la fecha FIFA de octubre". www.laroja.cl (in Spanish). FFCh. 16 October 2020. Retrieved 16 January 2024.
12. Molina, Geraldine (16 May 2023). "Oficial: Luis Mena es confirmado como nuevo DT de La Roja Femenina". RedGol (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 January 2024.

External links

• Carolina Armijo at Soccerway