Jorge Anchén

{{short description|Uruguayan footballer (born 1980)}}

{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2024}}

{{family name hatnote|Anchén|Cajiga|lang=Spanish}}

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|birth_place = Montevideo, Uruguay

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|position = Right Winger, Right Back

|years1 = 1999–2006

|years2 = 2005–2006

|years3 = 2006–2008

|years4 = 2008

|years5 = 2009

|years6 = 2010–2011

|years7 = 2013–2015

|clubs1 = Danubio FC

|clubs2 = → Argentinos Juniors (loan)

|clubs3 = CA Bella Vista

|clubs4 = AIK

|clubs5 = San Martín de Tucumán

|clubs6 = Deportivo Pasto

|clubs7 = Rampla Juniors

|caps1 = 154

|caps2 = 18

|caps3 = 14

|caps4 = 15

|caps5 = 12

|caps6 = 10

|caps7 = 29

|goals1 = 5

|goals2 = 0

|goals3 = 0

|goals4 = 3

|goals5 = 0

|goals6 = 1

|goals7 = 0

|nationalyears1 = 2001–2002

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Jorge Luis Anchén Cajiga ({{IPA|es|ˈxoɾxe anˈtʃen}}; born 17 August 1980) is a Uruguayan former football midfielder who played in Argentina, Colombia, Sweden and Uruguay.

Career

Born in Montevideo, Anchén started his professional career in 1999 with Danubio FC. After a loan spell with Argentinos Juniors in 2005-2006 he returned to Uruguay to join Bella Vista.{{cite web|website=Copapostabon.com.co |author=Zambrano Acosta, Esteban |title=Anchen quiere dejar huella en Colombia |trans-title=Anchén wants to make a mark in Colombia |url=http://www.copapostobon.com.co/noticia/anchen-quiere-dejar-huella-en-colombia |language=es |accessdate=19 June 2013 |archivedate=27 December 2010 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20101227161116/http://www.copapostobon.com.co/noticia/anchen-quiere-dejar-huella-en-colombia |url-status=dead }}

At the beginning of 2008 he moved to Sweden to join AIK from Bella Vista after one year with AIK he joined San Martín de Tucumán of Argentina.{{cite web|url=http://www.aikfotboll.se/herrar/laget/Sidor/default.aspx |title=AIK football website |accessdate=18 January 2009 |archivedate= 8 April 2009 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090408073334/http://www.aikfotboll.se/herrar/laget/Sidor/default.aspx |url-status=dead }}

Afterwards Anchén played for Deportivo Pasto in Colombia.

International

He has been capped 6 times for Uruguay, six times on senior level. Anchén represented his country in the 1999 FIFA World Youth Championship and in 2001 he was selected to play for Uruguay in the Copa América 2001.

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