Pedro Salgado

Pedro Salgado
Personal information
Full name Pedro Ricardo Salgado González
Date of birth (1992-11-06) 6 November 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth Trovolhue, Araucanía Region, Chile
Height 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s) Defender
Youth career
2007–2010 Universidad Católica
2010 → Manchester United (loan)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2014 Universidad Católica 4 (0)
2012 → Deportes Temuco (loan) 25 (0)
2013–2014 → Deportes Temuco (loan) 0 (0)
International career
2011 Chile U20 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Pedro Ricardo Salgado González (born 6 November 1992), is a Chilean former footballer who played as a defender.

Career

Born in Trovolhue, Chile,[1] Salgado was with Manchester United as a youth alongside Ángelo Henríquez.[2][3] He played on the Chilean U20 team in the 2011 South American championship.[4]

He was loaned by Universidad Católica to Deportes Temuco. Recovering from an injury, his loan was not registered in time to play the first half of the 2013 season with Temuco.[5]

After not getting over a pubalgia, he retired at the age of twenty-two.[1]

Personal life

He got a degree in construction engineering.[1]

Honours

References

  1. ^ a b c Ortega, claudio (12 June 2020). "La historia del chileno que estuvo un mes en el United y que se retiró con sólo 22 años... Su presente y la anécdota con una leyenda". Emol (in Spanish). El Mercurio. Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  2. ^ "Henriquez the tale of a Chilean Prodigy".
  3. ^ "El futuro de Chile va a jugar por Manchester United". LUN. 2 August 2009.
  4. ^ "Nóminas de Chile para Campeonatos Sudamericanos Sub-20". Partidos de La Roja (in Spanish). Retrieved 2 March 2023.
  5. ^ Pena, Juan Pedro (27 March 2013). "Pedro Salgado fue descartado en Deportes Temuco hasta el segundo semestre de 2013". Soychile.cl.