Hugo Vilches

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Hugo Vilches

| image = Hugo Vilches Manuguian.jpg

| caption = Vilches as manager of Huachipato in 2015

| fullname = Hugo Alejandro Héctor Vilches Manuguian

| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1969|2|27|df=yes}}

| birth_place = Santiago, Chile

| height =

| position = Forward

| currentclub =

| youthyears1 =

| youthclubs1 = Universidad de Chile

| years1 = 1988–1990 | clubs1 = Universidad de Chile | caps1 = 17 | goals1 = 6

| years2 = 1991 | clubs2 = Rangers | caps2 = 18 | goals2 = 2

| totalcaps =

| totalgoals =

| manageryears1 = 2000–2002 | managerclubs1 = Banyoles (youth)

| manageryears2 = 2002–2003 | managerclubs2 = Porqueres

| manageryears3 = 2004–2005 | managerclubs3 = Club Oriente

| manageryears4 = 2005–2008 | managerclubs4 = Universidad de Chile (youth)

| manageryears5 = 2008–2009 | managerclubs5 = Chile U15

| manageryears6 = 2008–2009 | managerclubs6 = Chile U18

| manageryears7 = 2009–2010 | managerclubs7 = Universidad de Chile (youth)

| manageryears8 = 2012 | managerclubs8 = Santiago Wanderers (assistant)

| manageryears9 = 2013–2014 | managerclubs9 = Barnechea

| manageryears10 = 2015 | managerclubs10 = Huachipato

| manageryears11 = 2016–2018 | managerclubs11 = Audax Italiano

| manageryears12 = 2019 | managerclubs12 = Deportes Temuco

| manageryears13 = 2019 | managerclubs13 = Curicó Unido

}}

Hugo Alejandro Héctor Vilches Manuguian (born February 27, 1969) is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a forward.

Playing career

A product of Universidad de Chile, Vilches spent three seasons with them between 1988 and 1990,{{cite web |title=Universidad de Chile 1988 - Campeonato Nacional |url=http://www.solofutbol.cl/futbol%20chileno/Campeonatos%20Nacionales/equipos/Universidad%20de%20Chile/Universidad%20de%20Chile%201988%20nacional.htm |website=www.solofutbol.cl |access-date=29 February 2024 |language=es}}{{cite web |title=Universidad de Chile 1990 - Campeonato Nacional |url=http://www.solofutbol.cl/futbol%20chileno/Campeonatos%20Nacionales/equipos/Universidad%20de%20Chile/Universidad%20de%20Chile%201990%20nacional.htm |website=www.solofutbol.cl |access-date=29 February 2024 |language=es}} winning the 1989 Segunda División, the only time that the club has been in the second level.{{cite web |title=U. de Chile - campañas - 1989 |url=http://chuncho.com/anuarios/cb1989.html |website=chuncho.com |access-date=29 February 2024 |language=es}} He also played for Rangers de Talca in 1991.{{cite news |title=Hugo Vilches reemplazará a Mario Salas en el banco de Barnechea FC |url=https://www.alairelibre.cl/noticias/deportes/futbol/barnechea/hugo-vilches-reemplazara-a-mario-salas-en-el-banco-de-barnechea-fc/2012-12-24/155745.html |access-date=29 February 2024 |work=alairelibre.cl |publisher=Radio Cooperativa |date=24 December 2012 |language=es}}{{cite web |title=📸 Rangers ⚽️ Año 1991. |url=https://www.facebook.com/100039975193759/posts/1232742590393179/ |website=www.facebook.com |publisher=Recuerdos del Fútbol Chileno Fotos y Vídeos. |access-date=29 February 2024 |language=es |date=13 May 2020}}

Coaching career

Viclhes began his career in Spain. Back in Chile, he worked for Club Oriente de Fútbol from Chicureo, Santiago in 2004–05.{{cite web |title=“Club Oriente de Fútbol”: más que una alternativa de entretención |url=http://chicureo.com/Destacados/2005/cof.shtml |website=chicureo.com |access-date=29 February 2024 |language=es |date=2 March 2005}}

After, he worked for the Universidad de Chile youth ranks, taking part of the training of players such as Igor Lichnovsky, Ángelo Henríquez, Sebastián Martínez, among others.{{cite web |last1=Riquelme |first1=José |title=Los dispares énfasis de Wanderers y Everton en el trabajo con las divisiones inferiores |url=https://www.epicentrochile.com/2012/08/13/los-dispares-enfasis-de-wanderers-y-everton-en-el-trabajo-con-las-divisiones-inferiores/ |website=Epicentro Chile |access-date=29 February 2024 |language=es |date=13 August 2012}} He also was the coach of the Chile youth teams at under-15 and under-18 levels.

In 2012, he served as assistant coach of Arturo Salah in Santiago Wanderers. The next season, he assumed as head coach of Barnechea in the Primera B.

The next years, he worked as head coach of Huachipato,{{cite news |title=HUGO VILCHES FUE PRESENTADO COMO NUEVO DT DE HUACHIPATO |url=https://www.anfp.cl/noticia/22791/hugo-vilches-fue-presentado-como-nuevo-dt-de-huachipato |access-date=29 February 2024 |work=ANFP |date=23 December 2014 |language=es}} Audax Italiano,{{cite news |title=Vilches es el nuevo DT de Audax Itailano |url=https://www.espn.cl/futbol/chile/nota/_/id/2784357/audax-italiano-oficializo-a-hugo-vilches-como-el-nuevo-entrenador |access-date=29 February 2024 |work=ESPN |date=9 September 2016 |language=es}} Deportes Temuco{{cite news |title=Hugo Vilches dejó de ser el técnico de Deportes Temuco |url=https://www.alairelibre.cl/noticias/deportes/futbol/temuco/hugo-vilches-dejo-de-ser-el-tecnico-de-deportes-temuco/2019-09-02/113827.html |access-date=29 February 2024 |work=alairelibre.cl |publisher=Radio Cooperativa |date=2 September 2019 |language=es}} and Curicó Unido.{{cite news |title=Corto paso: Hugo Vilches deja un Curicó que recibirá a Larcamón |url=https://www.prensafutbol.cl/322971-corto-paso-hugo-vilches-deja-la-banca-de-curico-y-llegara-larcamon/ |access-date=29 February 2024 |work=Prensafutbol.cl |date=3 December 2019 |language=es}}