Jefferson Portales

A title in his first season at Alianza Lima is the clearest line on Jefferson Portales's record. He arrived in Lima in March 2021 and played 20 league matches as the club took the Liga 1 championship that year.

The following season the picture changed. Alianza reached the final of the Torneo Reducido in 2022 and lost to FBC Melgar; Portales appeared in nine league matches across the campaign. He was loaned to Carlos A. Mannucci in January 2023, signed for Cienciano a year later, and went out on loan again to UTC Cajamarca in July 2024. January 2025 took him to Universidad César Vallejo, and in July 2025 he joined Deportivo Garcilaso. None of the fees were made public.

The grounding came earlier, at Sporting Cristal, where he came through the youth set-up. His first-team football began on loan at Universidad San Martín in 2018, and he stayed there three seasons before the move that brought the title.

Internationally he has not been capped at senior level. He represented Peru at under-22 level at the 2019 Pan American Games, which remains his only tournament appearance in national colours.