Christopher Olivares
 Olivares playing for Peru U20 in 2018 | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Christopher Robin Olivares Burga | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 3 April 1999 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Thessaloniki, Greece | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Forward | ||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Deportivo Garcilaso | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| –2016 | Esther Grande de Bentín | ||||||||||||||||
| 2017 | Sporting Cristal | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2017–2022 | Sporting Cristal | 90 | (16) | ||||||||||||||
| 2019 | → Vitória Guimarães B (loan) | 9 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Deportivo Municipal | 15 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 2023 | Cusco FC | 13 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2024 | Universitario de Deportes | 10 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2025 | Atlético Grau | 21 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
| 2026- | Deportivo Garcilaso | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2015 | Peru U17 | 3 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Peru U20 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2020 | Peru U23 | 4 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18:02, 20 June 2019 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 18:02, 20 June 2019 (UTC) | |||||||||||||||||
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Christopher Robin Olivares Burga (born 3 April 1999) is a footballer who currently plays as a forward for Peruvian Liga 1 club Deportivo Garcilaso. Born in Greece, he represents Peru at youth level.
He is the son of former Peru International Percy Olivares.
Early life
Olivares was born on 3 April 1999 in Thessaloniki, Greece second largest and most populous city and capital of the Central Macedonia. He is the only child of Percy Olivares and Cristina Burga. His father, also a footballer, played for PAOK FC at the time of his birth. His family, originally from Lima and of Afro-Peruvian descent, was living in Thessaloniki at the time.
From an early age, he showed an inclination for attacking football. Although he developed his game in a comfortable environment, his first contact with the world of football came in 2004, when he joined the youth ranks of Esther Grande de Bentín. He even did internships in October 2015 at Twente, in September 2016 at Benfica and Eintracht Frankfurt, and in December 2016 he travelled to Mexico with Andy Huamán to try out for the Pumas UNAM. In early 2017, he joined the Sporting Cristal reserve team on loan, where he converted to centre forward in the team managed by Pablo Zegarra.[1] He participated in the reserve and Copa Federación tournaments until August 2017, when he made the leap to the first team, where he ended up staying.[2]
Career
Olivares came from the youth ranks of Esther Grande de Bentín, where he played as an attacking midfielder. In 2017, he moved to Sporting Cristal and started playing in its reserves, where he was reconverted into a centre-forward by manager Pablo Zegarra, scoring 18 goals. In August of that year, he was promoted to the first team, making his professional debut coming from the bench in a 0–0 home draw against Juan Aurich and scoring his first professional goal the following matchday, in a 2–2 away draw against Unión Comercio.
International career
On 9 June 2023, Olivares was called up for the first time to Peru national team to play in matches against Japan and South Korea, being called up as an emergency replacement following injuries to Luis Advíncula and Andy Polo.
Career statistics
Club
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Sporting Cristal | 2017 | Peruvian Primera División | 13 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | |
| 2018 | 23 | 4 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 2[a] | 0 | 25 | 4 | |||
| 2019 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| Total | 36 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 5 | ||
| Vitória Guimarães B (loan) | 2018–19 | LigaPro | 9 | 1 | – | – | – | 0 | 0 | 9 | 1 | |||
| Career total | 45 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 47 | 6 | ||
- Notes
Honours
- Sporting Cristal
- Universitario de Deportes
- Peru U15
Notes
- ^ Appearances in the Copa Sudamericana
References
- ^ "Christopher Olivares: "Alberto Rodríguez es muy inteligente para la marca" – LaNueve" (in European Spanish). 1 April 2017. Archived from the original on 29 March 2019. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ^ "Christopher Olivares, el '9' con alma de '10'". DENGANCHE (in Spanish). Archived from the original on 9 December 2018. Retrieved 8 December 2018.
- ^ Christopher Olivares at Soccerway. Retrieved 20 June 2019.
- ^ Christopher Olivares at ForaDeJogo (archived)
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