Jorge Acuña

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This name uses Spanish naming customs; the first or paternal family name is Acuña and the second or maternal family name is Concha.

Personal information
Date of birth	(1972-01-22) 22 January 1972
Place of birth	Houston, Texas
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Number	–
	→ Universidad Católica (loan)	38	(2)
2005–2006	→ RBC Roosendaal (loan)	24	(0)
2006–2007	Universidad de Chile	16	(0)
2007–2009	Mamelodi Sundowns	35	(0)
2009–2010	Ñublense	12	(0)
2010–2012	Unión San Felipe	40	(0)
2013	Rangers	0	(0)
2014–	Unión San Felipe	0	(0)
National team^‡
Years	Team	Apps^†	(Gls)^†
2003–2006	Chile	16	(0)
† Appearances (Goals). ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 18 July 2009

Jorge Acuña (born 31 July 1978 in Ovalle) is a Chilean footballer. He is currently playing for Rangers on Chilean Primera División

Club career

Early career

In Chile, Acuña made his professional debut with Unión Española in 1999. He spent one season with Unión Española, before moving to Chilean powerhouse Universidad Católica where he would stay for three years.

Feyenoord

In 2002, Acuña signed a contract with Dutch club Feyenoord. Following a Feyenoord Reserve match on 15 April 2004, he and other Feyenoord players, including Robin van Persie, were attacked by AFC Ajax hooligans. Acuña was taken to the hospital with head, neck and rib injuries. In 2005, the club loaned him to RBC Roosendaal.

He played for RBC Roosendaal until the summer of 2006 when his contract expired (it was never renewed).

Local rivals to Blackburn Rovers, Wigan Athletic took the Chilean on trial on 17 January 2007, but he finally signed with Universidad de Chile.

He then joined Israeli club Maccabi Netanya FC in a one-year contract on 26 June 2007 but refused to go to Israel and stayed in Chile. Universidad de Chile's coach Arturo Salah then fired him from the squad and he signed with the South African team Mamelodi Sundowns.

Mamelodi Sundowns

In recent controversy, Acuña claimed in statements made to Cooperative Radio that he has been discriminated at his present club. He assured that Patrice Motsepe, president of its team, is racist and discriminates him for being "white".

"I can play well yet they always tell me that I am doing something wrong. There are things that I do that they like, I always play 100 percent. At times I can play well or badly, but that always they say that I do the things badly he do not i like", exclaimed Acuña.

He explained that a sign of the discrimination that suffers on the part of the top leader of his team, he is that the owner of the assembly greets the players of color that are chosen man of the match. The Chilean has been elected on five occasions and the executive has never congratulated him.

This caused Acuña to want to return to Chile, to Universidad Católica.

"I have committed so many errors along my career, but I have something that calls me of Chile, that is the stripe (of the Universidad Católica)", assured the former university player.

Return to Chile

Acuña then returned to Chile to play for Ñublense in 2009. He was signed by Unión San Felipe in the Winter of 2010.

References

Jorge Acuña at National-Football-Teams.com

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1 Aguilera 2 Fernández 3 Ferreira 4 Cantillana 5 Andrade 6 Pighin 7 Agüero 8 Sirino 9 Jeraldino 10 Zúñiga 11 Lima 12 González 13 Lemus 14 Figueroa 15 Gómez 16 Estay 17 Silva 18 Carrasco 19 Pérez 20 Jeraldino 21 Peirone 22 Alvarado 23 Espinoza 26 Meneses 27 Sotomayor 28 Guerazar 35 Herrera -- Olivares -- Acuña Manager: Cisneros

Persondata
Name	Acuna, Jorge
Alternative names
Short description	Chilean footballer
Date of birth	1978-07-31
Place of birth	Ovalle, Chile
Date of death
Place of death

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