Pedro Campos (footballer, born 2000)

Pedro Pablo Campos Olavarria (born 2 June 2000) is a Chilean footballer who plays as a forward for Chilean club Deportes Antofagasta.

Pedro Campos
Personal information
Full name Pedro Pablo Campos Olavarria
Date of birth (2000-06-02) 2 June 2000
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)
Position(s) Forward
Team information
Current team
 Deportes Antofagasta
Number --
Youth career
Colo-Colo[1]
2014–2018 Universidad Católica
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2020 Necaxa 3 (0)
2020 Olympiakos Nicosia 0 (0)
2020–2021 Bnei Yehuda 24 (0)
2021–2022 Everton 4 (0)
2023– Deportes Antofagasta 0 (0)
International career‡
2017 Chile U17 10 (1)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 26 May 2021
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 14 October 2017

Club career

Despite he was in the Universidad Católica Youth Team, he made his professional debut out of his country of birth[2] and has played for clubs in Mexico, Cyprus and Israel.[3]

International career

He represented Chile U17 at the 2017 South American U-17 Championship – Chile was the runner-up – and at the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.

Also, he played all the matches and scored a goal for Chile U17 at the friendly tournament Lafarge Foot Avenir 2017 in France, better known as Tournament Limoges, where Chile became champion after defeating Belgium U18[4] and Poland U18[5] and drawing France U18.[6]

Personal life

He is of Cuban descent due to the fact that his father is Cuban.[7] In November 2016, after being nominated to the U-17 national team, Campos 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.[8] In the series, Campos regrets that Chileans discriminate him due to mistaking him as a naturalized person, despite being born at the country.[9]

His older brother, Víctor Campos, is a professional footballer too, who has played for Palestino, Deportes Recoleta, among others clubs.[10] Also, they both were in the Colo-Colo Youth Team.[1]

Honours

Club
Necaxa

International
Chile U17

References
  1. "Pedro Chispa Campos reveló que jugó en Colo Colo y se fue porque echaron a su hermano". Dale Albo (in Spanish). 22 February 2021. Retrieved 25 March 2021.
  2. "Pedro Campos fue inscrito en Everton de Viña del Mar al filo del cierre del mercado" (in Spanish). TNT Sports Chile. 10 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
  3. "Pedro Campos, oficializado en su segundo club europeo" [Pedro Campos was officially presented by his second European club] (in Spanish). CDF. 13 July 2020. Retrieved 25 August 2020.
  4. "Espectacular estreno de La Roja Sub 17 en el cuadrangular internacional de Limoges" (in Spanish). ANFP. 30 August 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  5. ""Ganar fue un premio a lo que generó el equipo y al esfuerzo de esta selección"" (in Spanish). ANFP. 1 September 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  6. "La Roja Sub 17, un campeón a máxima velocidad en Francia" (in Spanish). ANFP. 3 September 2017. Retrieved 23 March 2021.
  7. "Pedro Campos recordó su pasado en Colo Colo" [Pedro Campos remembered his past at Colo Colo] (in Spanish). Mexico: Canal del Fútbol. 13 September 2018. Retrieved 27 July 2019. My father is cuban and he likes football a lot. When we were kids, he always took my brother and I to play at the park.
  8. "#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.
  9. "CAP 4: #SomosChile - Pedro Campos" (video). Facebook (in Spanish). Santiago: Selección Chilena. 15 November 2016. Retrieved 27 July 2019. Sometimes, people discriminate someone without knowledge. They don't know that I'm chilean and I'm not naturalised, and there's nothing wrong with naturalization. Honestly, I don't feel myself different. Maybe I haven't 100% of chilean blood, but I was born here and I'll give my life for this colors.
  10. Benavides, Camilo (16 April 2017). "Las 21 preguntas a: Víctor Campos Olavarría". Fútbol Joven Chile (in Spanish). Retrieved 25 March 2021.
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