Boris Rieloff
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Boris Alexis Rieloff Venegas | ||
| Date of birth | 8 January 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Santiago, Chile | ||
| Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in) | ||
| Position | Right back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 1993–2003 | Audax Italiano | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2004–2010 | Audax Italiano | 245 | (21) |
| 2011 | Gimnasia La Plata | 10 | (0) |
| 2011–2013 | Colo-Colo | 20 | (0) |
| 2012 | → Deportes Iquique (loan) | 36 | (6) |
| 2013 | Colo-Colo B | 7 | (0) |
| 2013–2014 | Audax Italiano | 14 | (1) |
| 2013 | Audax Italiano B | 2 | (0) |
| 2014–2015 | Deportes Iquique | 28 | (1) |
| 2015–2016 | Ñublense | 24 | (3) |
| 2018 | Deportes Melipilla | 11 | (0) |
| Total | 397 | (32) | |
| International career | |||
| 2006–2007 | Chile | 5 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Boris Alexis Rieloff Venegas (born 8 January 1984) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a right back.
He spent much of his career at Audax Italiano, where he was promoted to the first team in 2004. He remained with the club until December 2010, when he was transferred to Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata of the Argentine Primera División.[1] However, he had an inconsistent spell there and, after his contract was not renewed, he signed for Colo-Colo, the most successful team in his country.[2]
Rieloff failed to establish himself as a regular at Colo-Colo, which led to loan spells in 2012 and during the 2013–14 and 2014–15 seasons at Audax, his original club, and Deportes Iquique, where he did manage to play regularly.[3]
In 2015, his contract with Colo-Colo ended. His final clubs were Ñublense[3] and Deportes Melipilla; he retired at the age of 33 in 2018.[4]
Club career
[edit]Rieloff began his career at Audax Italiano football academy. He arrived at Audax Italiano in 1993 when he was nine for then be promoted to the first-adult team in 2004.[5] His good performances under the coach Raúl Toro Fuenzalida during 2006 and 2007 seasons made his services as a right back a great value.
After 2008, the decline of Audax in the national concert —in comparison with his previous campaigns— was eclipsing his showy game and projections that he achieved in Toro's team (who was fired by the club's board in November of that year). After playing six seasons at the Italic club, Rieloff did not renew his contract in December 2010, so Audax board honored him for his years playing at Estadio Bicentenario de La Florida during a game with Unión Española.[5]
After his departure from Audax Italiano, he was heavy linked with Universidad de Chile and Colo-Colo, but he refused them for an alleged offer from Argentina.[6] Finally, on 15 January 2011, Rieloff was presented at Argentine Primera División side Gimnasia La Plata as club’s new signing, which he reached a six-month deal.[7]
Despite his good game in the brief revaluation of Audax through the 2010 annual championship (where they achieved a third place), later he didn't manage to have regularity either in his time at Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata or, later, in Colo-Colo, institution of unstable seasons during the 2011–2013 period.
International career
[edit]His performance in Audax in 2006 allowed him being called up to the Chile football team (between that season and 2007), team which in that time was in a slow process of change that included a temporary period between 1998 FIFA World Cup and 2010 FIFA World Cup. Although the prolongation of Rieloff's good performance allowed him to be summoned by Nelson Acosta to 2007 Copa América, later he was not called up by Marcelo Bielsa during qualifiers road to South Africa (2007–2009) considering that he didn't play with right wings and in this position he commonly adapted to Mauricio Isla as a right midfielder, who had to Hugo Droguett or Gonzalo Fierro as substitutes.
Post-retirement
[edit]Rieloff graduated as a football manager.[8]
Rieloff was a shortlisted candidate to councillor for La Florida commune in the 2024 Chilean municipal elections.[8][9]
Honours
[edit]Individual
References
[edit]- ↑ "Boris Rieloff fue presentado como refuerzo en Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata". Radio Cooperativa (in Spanish). 15 January 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- ↑ "Boris Rieloff pasa exámenes médicos y ya se prueba la camiseta de Colo Colo". Emol (in Spanish). 1 July 2011. Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- 1 2 Ayala, Rocío (15 July 2015). "Boris Rieloff es el nuevo diablo de Chillán". Todo Fútbol (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- ↑ Ortega, Pablo (23 August 2024). "«No me arrepiento de nada en mi carrera... Me fui a Argentina y después volví a Colo Colo»". AS Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 28 June 2026.
- 1 2 "Audax Italiano homenajeó a Boris Rieloff en su despedida". Audaxitaliano.cl. 12 December 2010. Archived from the original on 9 March 2012. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
- ↑ "Boris Rieloff a un paso de firmar en Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata: "Allá creceré mucho"". Audaxitaliano.cl. 12 December 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
- ↑ "Boris Rieloff fue presentado como refuerzo en Gimnasia y Esgrima de La Plata". Audaxitaliano.cl. 12 December 2010. Retrieved 28 May 2015.
- 1 2 Ortega, Pablo (14 September 2024). "El presente de una ex figura del fútbol chileno: "Pensé qué hago, trabajo o veo a mis hijos"". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 September 2024.
- ↑ "Servel rechaza candidatura de exjugador de Colo Colo que buscaba ser concejal en La Florida". T13 (in Spanish). 25 August 2024. Retrieved 30 June 2025.
External links
[edit]- Boris Rieloff at ESPN FC
- Boris Rieloff at National-Football-Teams.com
- Boris Alexis Rieloff at BDFA (in Spanish)
- 1984 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Santiago, Chile
- Chilean men's footballers
- 21st-century Chilean sportsmen
- Men's association football full-backs
- Chile men's international footballers
- Chilean Primera División players
- Argentine Primera División players
- Segunda División Profesional de Chile players
- Primera B de Chile players
- Audax Italiano footballers
- Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata footballers
- Colo-Colo footballers
- Deportes Iquique footballers
- Colo-Colo B footballers
- Ñublense footballers
- Deportes Melipilla footballers
- Chilean expatriate men's footballers
- Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
- Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina