Matías Cavalleri
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Matías Cavalleri Lopetegui | ||
| Date of birth | 8 April 1998 | ||
| Place of birth | Vitacura, Santiago, Chile | ||
| Height | 1.68 m (5 ft 6 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Forward | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Deportes Concepción | ||
| Number | 24 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Universidad Católica | |||
| Newell's Old Boys | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2018–2020 | Curicó Unido | 50 | (6) |
| 2021–2024 | Unión La Calera | 77 | (12) |
| 2021 | → Palestino (loan) | 7 | (0) |
| 2025 | Paysandu | 6 | (1) |
| 2025 | → CSA (loan) | 5 | (0) |
| 2026– | Deportes Concepción | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| Chile U17 | |||
| Chile U20 | |||
| 2020 | Chile U23 | 3 | (0) |
|
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 14 December 2025 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 25 January 2020 | |||
Matías Cavalleri Lopetegui (born 8 April 1998) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a forward for Deportes Concepción.
Club career
[edit]Cavalleri had a period with the Universidad Católica academy, prior to joining the ranks of Newell's Old Boys.[2] In 2018, Chilean Primera División side Curicó Unido signed Cavalleri.[1][3] He made his professional debut on 11 February, starting a home league defeat to ex-club Universidad Católica though was later substituted off at the interval.[1] Cavalleri netted his first goals in May 2019 against Audax Italiano and Palestino.[1] In 2021, he switched to Unión La Calera.[4]
Cavalleri moved abroad for the 2025 season and signed with Paysandu in the Brazilian Série B.[5] In June of the same year, he was loaned out to Centro Sportivo Alagoano until the end of the season.[6] He returned to Chile at the end of the year.[7]
Back to Chile, Cavalleri joined Deportes Concepción on 18 December 2025.[8]
International career
[edit]Cavalleri has previously represented Chile at U17 and U20 level[2][9] and Chile U23 at the 2020 Pre-Olympic Tournament.[10]
He was called up to a some senior team training microcycles in April 2019[11] and 2020.[12][13]
Personal life
[edit]He is the nephew of Fernando "Palito" Cavalleri,[14] died in 2017, an Argentine naturalized Chilean football player and manager who had a long career in Chile and other countries.[15]
Career statistics
[edit]- As of 28 May 2019.[1]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Curicó Unido | 2018 | Primera División | 10 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | |
| 2019 | 9 | 2 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 9 | 2 | |||
| Career total | 19 | 2 | 2 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 21 | 2 | |||
References
[edit]- 1 2 3 4 5 "Chile - M. Cavalleri". Soccerway. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- 1 2 "Suman y siguen: Curicó Unido oficializa a Matías Cavalleri como su sexta incorporación". BBCL. 8 January 2018. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ↑ "Ficha Estadistica de MATIAS CAVALLERI". BDFA. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ↑ @ulcsadpoficial (16 March 2021). "¡JUVENTUD Y CALIDAD!" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 March 2021 – via Twitter.
- ↑ Fernández, José Tomás (13 December 2024). "Jugó contra la UC, peleó con Boca Juniors y estuvo en Libertadores: el nuevo equipo de un chileno". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2024.
- ↑ "Paysandu e CSA chegam a acordo por herói da Copa Verde". DOL - Diário Online (in Portuguese). 31 May 2025. Retrieved 4 June 2025.
- ↑ San Martín, Lucas (13 December 2025). "Deportes Concepción ya tiene todo arreglado para su primer fichaje 2026: tema económico listo". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 14 December 2025.
- ↑ "MATÍAS CAVALLERI ES EL PRIMER REFUERZO DEL LEÓN PARA LA TEMPORADA 2026". Deportes Concepción (in Spanish). 18 December 2025. Retrieved 22 December 2025.
- ↑ "La Roja sub 17 cerrará la semana con amistoso ante Colo Colo sub 19". ANFP. 3 June 2015. Retrieved 18 October 2018.
- ↑ "Nómina de La Roja Sub 23 para el Preolímpico Sudamericano Colombia 2020" (in Spanish). ANFP. 27 December 2019. Archived from the original on 2 May 2021. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ↑ "Reinaldo Rueda suma a Matías Cavalleri al microciclo de la Selección Chilena". T13. 15 April 2019. Retrieved 3 August 2019.
- ↑ "Las sorpresas de la nómina de Rueda para el microciclo" (in Spanish). AS Chile. 11 September 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ↑ "La nómina de Rueda para un nuevo microciclo de la Roja" (in Spanish). AS Chile. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ↑ "¿Quién es Cavalleri, el último convocado por Rueda a la Roja?" (in Spanish). AS Chile. 16 April 2019. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
- ↑ "Falleció 'Palito' Cavalleri, histórico jugador y DT de Concepción" (in Spanish). AS Chile. 3 October 2017. Retrieved 17 March 2021.
External links
[edit]- Matías Cavalleri at Soccerway
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