Personal information | |||
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Full name | Martín Nicolás Arenas Jara | ||
Date of birth | 23 January 1997 | ||
Place of birth | Valparaíso, Chile | ||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Winger | ||
Youth career | |||
Águilas Verdes | |||
Unión Salles | |||
Santiago Wanderers | |||
2015–2017 | Villarreal | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2014 | Santiago Wanderers | ||
2016–2017 | Villarreal C | 21 | (5) |
2017–2018 | Universidad de Chile | ||
2018 | → Magallanes (loan) | 23 | (1) |
2019–2021 | Magallanes | 39 | (1) |
2022–2023 | Deportes Melipilla | 4 | (0) |
2022 | → Lautaro de Buin (loan) | 3 | (0) |
International career | |||
2011 | Chile U15 | ||
2015 | Chile U20 | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 February 2024 |
Martín Nicolás Arenas Jara (born 23 January 1997) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a winger.
As a youth player, Arenas was with Águilas Verdes, Unión Salles and Santiago Wanderers in his city of birth, Valparaíso. [2] A member of the Santiago Wanderers first team in 2014, [3] he moved to Spain and signed with Villarreal in January 2015, playing first for the Juvenil A team, with whom he won the Group VII of the División de Honor, and also training with the first team. [4] He after made twenty one appearances and scored five goals for Villarreal C in the 2016–17 Tercera División. [5]
In the second half of 2017, he returned to Chile and joined Universidad de Chile on a deal for eighteen months. [5] The next year, he joined Magallanes and played for them until the 2021 season. [6] [7]
In 2022, he signed with Deportes Melipilla [8] [7] and was loaned out to Lautaro de Buin in the second half of the year. [9] [10]
Arenas represented Chile at under-15 level in the 2011 South American Championship. [11]
At under-20 level, he represented Chile in the 2015 L'Alcúdia Tournament under Nicolás Córdova, where they became champions. [12] [13] He was called up to the squad for the 2017 South American Championship under Héctor Robles, but he suffered a muscle strain. [14]
Villarreal Juvenil A
Chile U20
At the beginning of his career, he was nicknamed Niño Maravilla (Wonder Boy) like Alexis Sánchez. [2]