Juvenal Olmos


Juvenal Mario Olmos Rojas is a Chilean football manager and former player.

Career

Olmos was born in Santiago de Chile. At Católica, he had as teammates Pablo Yoma, Marco Cornez, Miguel Ángel Neira, Mario Lepe, Raimundo Tupper, Luka Tudor and Osvaldo Hurtado.
His management of the Chile national team was unsuccessful, as they failed to get past the first round in Copa América 2004 and he was later fired, five games before the end of the qualifying round for the 2006 FIFA World Cup.

Post-retirement

In 2006, Olmos competed and won the Chilean talent show El Baile en TVN.
Olmos was a candidate to deputy for District 24 in the 2009 Chilean parliamentary election as a member of National Renewal. In 2021, he was elected councillor for La Reina commune.
Olmos has worked as a football commentator for TNT Sports Chile, formerly Canal del Fútbol .

Honours

Player

;Universidad Católica
Copa Interamericana: 1994
Copa Chile: 1983, Copa República 1983, 1995

Manager

;Unión Española
;Universidad Católica