Yessenia Huenteo

Yessenia Estefani Huenteo Cheuquemán (born 30 October 1992) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a right winger for Universidad de Chile and the Chile women's national team.

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Huenteo and the second or maternal family name is Cheuquemán.
Yessenia Huenteo
Huenteo (No. 19) taking a photo of herself on her phone in 2019
Personal information
Full name Yessenia Estefani Huenteo Cheuquemán[1]
Date of birth (1992-10-30) 30 October 1992[2][3]
Place of birth Santiago, Chile[1]
Height 1.55 m (5 ft 1 in)[2]
Position(s) Right winger
Team information
Current team
 Universidad de Chile
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012 Audax Italiano
2013–2018 Colo-Colo
2019–2020 CFF Cáceres 21 (2)
2020–2021 Audax Italiano
2021 Palestino
2022– Universidad de Chile
International career‡
2012 Chile U20 2+ (2)
2010– Chile 48 (1)
Medal record
Women's football
Representing  Chile
South American Games
Silver medal – second place2014 SantiagoTeam
*Club domestic league appearances and goals
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 01:30, 17 June 2019 (UTC)

International career

Huenteo represented Chile at the 2012 South American U-20 Women's Championship.

Honours

Club
Colo-Colo

Personal life

Huenteo is of Mapuche descent.[4]

In November 2016, Huenteo starred in Somos Chile (We are Chile), a web series created by the ANFP which reflects the process of multiculturalism that Chile has been going through that decade, in hopes to combat forms of discrimination such as racism and xenophobia.[5] In the series, Huenteo declared herself proud of her mapuche heritage, but at the same time felt ashamed when receiving racist chants by some supporters.[6]

References
  1. Yessenia Huenteo at Colo-Colo (in Spanish)
  2. "Delantera Yessenia Huenteo" (in Spanish). Copa América Femenina Chile 2018.
  3. Yessenia Huenteo at Soccerway
  4. Court Arrau, Javiera (12 November 2018). "Yessenia Huenteo" (in Spanish). El Desconcierto. Retrieved 13 February 2019.
  5. "#SomosChile, la web series de la ANFP para luchar contra la discriminación" [#SomosChile, the ANFP web series to fight against discrimination.]. ANFP (in Spanish). 11 November 2016. Retrieved 10 February 2017.
  6. "CAP 1 #SomosChile: Yessenia Huenteo" (video). Facebook (in Spanish). Santiago: Selección Chilena. 12 November 2016. Retrieved 17 February 2019. There's no differences between my teammates, because we're all equal. Inside football, that doesn't happen. But it does happen outside, in some people that scream and make you feel different, and I felt ashamed because of that.


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