Marco Fajre

Marco Antonio Fajre Díaz is a Chilean former football manager and player who played as a forward. Besides Chile, he played in Switzerland.

Club career

A product of Palestino, Fajre made his professional debut at the age of eighteen and played for them until 1984, with seasons on loan to in the Tercera División and the Segunda División.
In the Chilean Primera División, he later played for Universidad de Chile, Palestino again, Cobresal and Deportes Temuco, his last club.
In 1990, he scored a goal for Universidad de Chile in a friendly match against the Swiss club St. Gallen. After the match, he was informed about his transfer to the also Swiss club FC Baden. He played for them in 1991–92 in the Nationalliga B and scored about ten goals.
In the Chilean Segunda División, he also played for Deportes Temuco, where he scored about sixty goals between 1986 and 1988, Universidad de Chile and Santiago Wanderers. He was a member of Universidad de Chile in the 1989 season, the only time they were in that division, winning the championship with Fajre as the team top goalscorer with twelve goals.

As a football coach, Fajre worked for the Universidad de Chile youth system in Temuco for about nine years, taking part of the training of players such as Iván Rozas and José Gatica. In 2007, he led Provincial Temuco in the. He has also worked for football academies like the Escuela de Fútbol Municipal of Pitrufquén.

Fajre is of Palestinian descent.
He is the uncle of the Chilean football player and coach, Nicole Fajre.
Fajre was a candidate to the Regional Council of Araucanía for the communes of Temuco and Padre Las Casas in the 2024 Chilean regional elections..