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Rodrigo Venegas
Personal information
Full name	Rodrigo Andrés Venegas Pérez
Date of birth	4 October 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth	Chile
Managerial career
Years	Team
2015–2016	San Luis (youth)
2019	San José (assistant)
2020	Blooming (assistant)
2020–2021	Deportes La Serena (assistant)
2021–2022	Blooming
2022	Independiente Petrolero
2023	Always Ready
2023–2024	Oriente Petrolero

Rodrigo Andrés Venegas Pérez (born 4 October 1988) is a Chilean football manager.

Career

After starting his career as manager of an Unión Española youth school, Venegas later worked at Academia de Fútbol de Juvenal Olmos and Universidad de Chile before being named under-17 manager of San Luis de Quillota in 2015. In 2019, he moved to Bolivia after being named Miguel Ponce's assistant at San José.^[1]

Venegas continued to work as Ponce's assistant in the following years, at Blooming^[2] and Deportes La Serena.^[3] On 28 November 2021, he returned to Blooming after being named manager, in the place of departing Hernán Meske.^[4]

Venegas led Blooming to the semifinals of the 2022 Apertura, but resigned on 10 August 2022.^[5] On 9 September, he took over Independiente Petrolero of the same league.^[6]

After leaving Independiente in the end of the 2022 season, Venegas took over Always Ready on 30 August 2023,^[7] but left the latter on a mutual agreement exactly two months later.^[8] On 8 November, he replaced Antonio Puche at the helm of Oriente Petrolero.^[9]

Venegas was sacked from Oriente on 23 February 2024.^[10]

References

^ "Miguel Ponce es presentado como DT de San José" [Miguel Ponce is presented as manager of San José] (in Spanish). Opinión. 19 March 2019. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
^ "Venegas frente al reto de mantener a Blooming en la División Profesional" [Venegas ahead of the task of keeping Blooming in the División Profesional] (in Spanish). La Razón. 30 November 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
^ "Miguel Ponce: "no tenemos problema en salir a jugar los partidos"" [Miguel Ponce: "We will have no trouble on playing the matches"] (in Spanish). Deportes La Serena. 12 August 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
^ "El chileno Rodrigo Venegas, elegido para dirigir a Blooming" [Chilean Rodrigo Venegas, the chosen one to manage Blooming] (in Spanish). El Deber. 28 November 2021. Retrieved 1 February 2022.
^ "Esta vez es definitivo: Rodrigo Venegas se va de Blooming" [This time it is definitive: Rodrigo Venegas leaves Blooming] (in Spanish). El Deber. 10 August 2022. Retrieved 15 August 2022.
^ "Rodrigo Venegas es nuevo entrenador de Independiente" [Rodrigo Venegas is the new manager of Independiente] (in Spanish). El Deber. 9 September 2022. Retrieved 9 September 2022.
^ "Rodrigo Venegas es nuevo DT de Always Ready" [Rodrigo Venegas is the new manager of Always Ready] (in Spanish). El Deber. 30 August 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2023.
^ "Rodrigo Venegas no va más en Always Ready" [Rodrigo Venegas is no longer at Always Ready] (in Spanish). El Deber. 30 October 2023. Retrieved 30 October 2023.
^ "Oriente Petrolero: Rodrigo Venegas fue presentado como nuevo DT" [Oriente Petrolero: Rodrigo Venegas was presented as new manager] (in Spanish). El Deber. 8 November 2023. Retrieved 8 November 2023.
^ "¡Oficial! Oriente Petrolero despidió a Rodrigo Venegas en sus redes sociales" [Official! Oriente Petrolero bidded farewell to Rodrigo Venegas on their social media] (in Spanish). El Deber. 23 February 2024. Retrieved 23 February 2024.