Álvaro Alfredo Alejandro Madrid Gaete

Álvaro Madrid spent his entire career at one club before this year. Everton de Viña del Mar gave him his debut and kept him for well over a decade, a run that produced 275 appearances and 13 goals — the kind of longevity that says more about a player's standing at a club than any single statistic could. A loan spell at Unión La Calera in 2016 and 2017 broke up that stretch, yielding 17 games and a single goal, before he returned to Everton and stayed.

The recognition that mattered most came in February 2025, when Madrid earned his first call-up to the Chile national team. He made his debut on 8 February against Panama, a match Chile won 6:1. It remains his only appearance for the national side.

This year brought the move that changes his profile entirely. On 4 February 2026, Colo-Colo signed him on loan for a fee of €200,000, pulling him away from Valparaíso and Everton for the first time since he broke into the first team there. He has yet to make his debut for the club.

Born in Valparaíso, Madrid plays as a forward and is right-footed, standing 179cm. What stands out from the record so far is the shape of his career: a single-club forward who waited years for a senior international cap, then left the only home he'd known in Chilean football for one of the country's biggest clubs.