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Miguel Riffo
Personal information
Full name	Miguel Augusto Riffo Garay
Date of birth	21 June 1981 (age 43)
Place of birth	Santiago, Chile
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Defender
Team information
Current team	Curicó Unido (youth manager)
Youth career
1992–2001	Colo-Colo
Senior career*
Years	Team
2001–2010	Colo-Colo
2011	Santiago Morning
Total
International career
2007	Chile
Managerial career
2013–2015	Colo-Colo (assistant)
2015–2016	Unión La Calera
2018	Deportes Iquique
2020–2021	Deportes Antofagasta (assistant)
2021–2022	Coquimbo Unido (assistant)
2023–	Curicó Unido (youth)
2023	Curicó Unido (interim)
2024	Curicó Unido (interim)
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Miguel Augusto Riffo Garay (born 21 June 1981) is a former Chilean professional football player and the current manager of Curicó Unido's youth categories.

Club career

Product of Colo-Colo youth ranks, he won eight titles in his career with that club. In the 2000s, alongside his teammates Claudio Bravo, Luis Mena and Fernando Meneses, he also studied a technical-professional career in physical activity at the University of the Americas.^[1]

His most successful moment with the coach Claudio Borghi, when he also was named during the 2007 season at the Chilean Primera División Best Eleven. Although Riffo was born with a club foot, that complicated him very much, because he had to make several operations in his foot.^[2] In the 2010 season, he abandoned the club, because the Argentine coach Diego Cagna not considered him for the next season and in January 2011, he signed for Santiago Morning.

In March 2012, he announced his retirement from professional football, because Morning was relegated to the Primera B and also Riffo was titled as football coach at the ANFP, the last season that he played.

International career

He has appeared in the Chile national team. He played in one game at the Copa América 2007 versus Brazil when he committed a penalty. Later in the match Riffo was injured. Riffo played in the first four games of the 2010 FIFA World Cup qualification. Riffo started the first four games receiving a yellow card against Argentina; he did not appear in the remainder of the qualification process.^[3]