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Rodrigo González
	González with Unión Española in 2019
Personal information
Full name	Rodrigo Antonio González Catalán
Date of birth	November 30, 1995 (age 29)
Place of birth	San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, Chile
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Position(s)	Right-back; Right midfielder
Team information
Current team	Ñublense
Youth career
	Palestino
	Santiago Wanderers
2016	San Luis
Senior career*
Years	Team
2013	General Velásquez
2014	Colchagua
2015–2016	Chimbarongo FC
2016–2021	San Luis
2019	→ Unión Española (loan)
2020	→ Unión La Calera (loan)
2020–2021	→ Unión Española (loan)
2022	Santiago Morning
2023	Universidad de Concepción
2024	Magallanes
2025–	Ñublense
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 January 2024

Rodrigo Antonio González Catalán (born 30 November 1995) is a Chilean footballer who currently plays as a defender for Chilean Primera División side Ñublense.

Career

After staying in the Youth Teams of Palestino and Santiago Wanderers, he played for General Velásquez, Colchagua and Chimbarongo F.C. at the Tercera A, the fourth level of the Chilean football. Along with Colchagua, he won the 2014 Tercera A Championship.

In the Summer 2016, he joined San Luis de Quillota in the Chilean Primera División, first playing at the under-19 level and making his professional debut in a match against Palestino on August 21, 2016.^[1] After San Luis was relegated to Primera B, he was loaned to Unión Española for the 2019 season,^[2] returning on second half 2020 after his stay on loan at Unión La Calera.^[3] For the 2021 Primera B, he returned to San Luis.^[4]

In 2024, González joined Magallanes.^[5] The next year, he switched to Ñublense.^[6]

He is nicknamed Huaso, like the traditional countryman of the Central Chile, due to the fact his birthplace is San Vicente de Tagua Tagua, a city in the O'Higgins Region.^[3]

^ "El camino de Rodrigo González" (in Spanish). San Luis de Quillota. 31 August 2017. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
^ "Rodrigo González es la segunda incorporación de Unión Española" (in Spanish). ANFP. 2 January 2019. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
^ ^a ^b "Unión anuncia el regreso del "Huaso" González" (in European Spanish). TNT Sports Chile. 7 October 2020. Retrieved 1 June 2021.
^ @sanluis_qta (18 March 2021). "¡Bienvenido nuevamente a casa, "Huaso"!" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 1 June 2021 – via Twitter.
^ Vera, Pablo (8 January 2024). "Magallanes entra en el mercado y anuncia cinco refuerzos". Diario AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 8 January 2024.
^ "Ñublense anunció los fichajes de Gonzalo Sosa y Rodrigo González". Radio Cooperativa (in Spanish). 13 January 2025. Retrieved 17 January 2025.

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