Personal information | |||
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Full name | Carolina Andrea Armijo Lira | ||
Date of birth | 28 November 1987 | ||
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 | |||
Colo-Colo | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2017 | Colo-Colo | ||
2018 | Cúcuta Deportivo | ||
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.
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]
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]
At the age of eighteen, she worked in a McDonald's restaurant. She later graduated as a podiatrist.[2]
Colo-Colo