Jorge Alvial

Jorge Alvial is a Chilean Football Coach/Sports Manager and joined Manchester United First Team Scouting Department as International Scout for America. Previously he had been an International Scout for Chelsea FC for over 9 years.^[1]

In 2006, he was the Manager of the USL Puerto Rico Islanders, recruiting players such as 3-time National Title Champion in Argentina, Gustavo Barros Schelotto, and National team player of Chile, Arturo Norambuena, to join his team. However, during his 2006 season undefeated he left the team to be Chief Scout of the Americas for Chelsea FC with Hans Gillhaus and world-known scout, Piet de Visser.

From when he joined Chelsea in 2006, he has worked with Managers such as Jose Mourinho, Carlo Ancelotti, André Villas-Boas, Guus Hiddink, Luiz Felipe Scolari, and Avram Grant. During the 9 years at Chelsea and through his career he scouted and discover players like Humberto Suazo at 13yrs old, Rogelio and Ramiro Funes Mori at 16yrs old, Christian Pulisic at 13yrs, Neymar at 14yrs old, Javier Pastore at 16 yrs old, James Rodriguez at 16yrs old, Lucas Moura da Silva at 14yrs old, Arturo Vidal at 17yrs old, Leonel Sanchez at 16yrs old, Eduardo Vargas at 16yrs old Lucas Ocampos at 15 yrs old, Erik Lamela at 16yrs old and Gonzalo Higuain at 18yrs old, Abu Danladi at 17yrs old plus other great players playing in the Football World.

On January 11, 2008, though still hired at Chelsea FC, he joined the FC Dallas coaching staff for a short period of time to evaluate players at the MLS level. However, Alvial went back to Chelsea FC to continue his position as Chief Scout for the Americas the same year.

Alvial did not work in the MLS very long. He was linked to convincing the Argentine Legend of Boca Juniors, Guillermo Barros Schelotto to Columbus Crew for only a salary cap of only $150,000 the first year.^[2] With Schelotto, Columbus Crew won their first ever MLS Cup Playoffs. Alvial was also linked to getting Marcos Gonzalez and 3-time national title champion of Chile Milovan Mirošević to sign for Columbus Crew.

During his short spell at FC Dallas, he discovered Brek Shea at the MLS Combine ^[3] and twins Rogelio Funes Mori and Ramiro Funes Mori at the Sueño MLS.^[4][5] FC Dallas first round pick was Shea at the MLS SuperDraft - Shea later went to play for the US National Team and signed for a fee of $3.8 million in Stoke City.^[6] Before Alvial went back to scout for Chelsea FC, he discovered the Funes-Mori twins at MLS Sueño. The twins did not end up signing in FC Dallas and instead signed for a bigger and more world-known club River Plate - Ramiro, the defender, won the national title and Copa Sudamericana with River Plate; Rogelio, the forward, soon signed at S.L. Benfica for €2 million.^[7][8]

He has one daughter, Isabel Alvial, and three sons named Jorge, Greyson, and professional soccer player Javier Alvial.

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