Matías Alberto Sánchez Herrera (born 8 May 1990) is a Chilean former footballer who played as a forward.
Career Sánchez's first team was Deportes Copiapó of Primera B de Chile and made his professional debut at the age of 16. He played twenty-seven times and scored one goal in 2008, prior to joining fellow Primera B side Unión La Calera in 2009. He remained with the club for three seasons and played ten times, including twice in the 2011 Primera Division season following promotion in 2010. Sánchez returned to Deportes Copiapó, now in the Segunda División, in 2012. In the third tier, he scored fifteen goals in twenty-five matches as Copiapó won promotion. Sánchez had spells with Huachipato and Concepción between 2014 and 2016; playing forty times, scoring four goals.
Sánchez returned to Deportes Copiapó for a third time in June 2016. A year later, Sánchez left Chilean football for the first time to sign for Swedish Division 1 Norra side Arameisk-Syrianska IF. He departed at the end of 2017 after four goals, including two in a 5–3 win over Umeå FC, in seven matches. In January 2018, Sánchez returned to Chile to join San Marcos. His 200th appearance came on 17 February in a 2–5 loss to ex-club Deportes Copiapó. In 2019, Sánchez rejoined Deportes Copiapó for a fourth stint.
He retired at the end of the 2021 season, aged 31.
Post-retirement Sánchez switched to work in the mining industry.
Career statistics .
+ Club statisticsClubSeasonLeagueCupContinentalOtherTotalDivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsDeportes Copiapó2008Primera B27100—00271Unión La Calera20097000—007020101010—00202011Primera División2021—0041Total10031—00131Deportes Copiapó2012Segunda División211300—4Appearance(s) in the Segunda División play-offs225152013Primera B10352—001552013–1433800—00338Total642452—427328Huachipato2014–15Primera División100305Appearance(s) in the Copa Sudamericana010190Concepción2015–16Primera B29440—00334Deportes Copiapó2016–1724120—00261Arameisk-Syrianska IF2017Division 1 Norra7400—0074San Marcos2018Primera B14162—00203Deportes Copiapó20191000—0010Career total18635235505221942
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