Juan Gonzalo Lorca

Football player infobox
playername = "Juan Gonzalo Lorca"

http://deportes.tvn.cl/archivos/deportes/imagenes/lorcagolhuachip-P.jpgLorca with Huachipato]
fullname = Juan Gonzalo Lorca Donoso
nickname = Gonzalo, Chalo
dateofbirth = Birth date and age|1985|1|15|df=y
cityofbirth =
countryofbirth = Chile
height = 6'0" (185 cm)
currentclub = Colo Colo
clubnumber = 11
position = Forward
youthyears = 1997-2004
youthclubs = Colo-Colo
years = 2004-
2006
2007-2008
clubs = Colo-Colo
→ Huachipato "(loan)"
→ Vitesse "(loan)"
caps(goals) = 35 (10)
34 (11)
26 0(2)
nationalyears = 2006-
nationalteam = flagicon|Chile Chile
nationalcaps(goals) = 08 0(1)
pcupdate = November 27, 2007
ntupdate = 10 August 2007

Juan Gonzalo Lorca Donoso (born January 15, 1985) is a Chilean footballer. Lorca currently plays for Chilean club Colo Colo as a forward.

Colo-Colo

Lorca began his career with Colo-Colo's youth squad when he turned twelve years old. He began as an attacking midfielder, but soon made the switch to forward. On July 7, 2004, Lorca made his professional debut against Universidad Católica in a Copa Sudamericana match, which ended in a 1-1 tie. However his first goal would not come until the following month against Cobreloa.

Huachipato

In 2006, Lorca was loaned to Chilean club Huachipato for both the apertura and clausura tournaments. He was capped 34 times and scored 11 times before returning to Colo-Colo for the 2007 Apertura tournament. After his return, he has only been a fringe player because the team already has prominent forwards. Lorca will be leaving Colo-Colo once again after the 2007 Apertura, this time to go to Europe to play for Dutch team Vitesse Arnhem.

National Team

Lorca has represented the Chilean national team at the Sub-20 and Sub-23 levels. He took part in the 2005 South American Youth Championship, which qualified for the 2005 FIFA World Youth Championship in the Netherlands. However, he did not make the trip to Europe due to injury. Even though Lorca was not a regular in Colo Colo, Nelson Acosta, Chile's former national coach, added him to the adult squad for 2007 Copa América.
Marcelo Bielsa has included him in the adult national squad, where he remains an unused substitute, and in the U-23 squad that played the 2008 Toulon Tournament.

Personal

Lorca does not like to be called Juan, and says his family and friends call him "Gonzalo" or "Chalo". He is nephew of former Audax Italiano defender Benjamín Lorca.

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