Mario Luis Chirino Jiménez,[1] frequently and wrongly named Mario Chirinos, is a Chilean football manager and former player who played as a defender.
A football defender, Chirino stood out as a player of Deportes La Serena in the Chilean Primera División in the first half of the 1970s alongside players such as Hugo Valdivia, Juan Koscina, Gregorio Vilches, among others.
[8] In 1980, he moved abroad and joined LD Estudiantil in the Ecuadorian second level.
[9] At international level, he represented Chile in the 1976 Pre-Olympic Tournament alongside players such as Nelson Sanhueza, Oscar Wirth, Eduardo Bonvallet, among others, where they reached the fifth place.
[10] As a football manager, he has mainly worked for the Coquimbo Unido youth system,[11][12][13] taking part of the training of players such as Enzo Guerrero, Carlos Carmona, Alí Manouchehri, among others.