Mauricio Leonel Illesca Carreño (born 5 January 1972) is a Chilean former professional footballer who played as a striker for clubs in Chile and abroad.
Born in Concepción, Chile, as a child, Illesca was with Escuela Barrabases from San Eugenio neighborhood [es], Estación Central, Santiago.
[2] After a good season with Audax Italiano,[6] in 1997 he had a brief step with Spanish club UD Las Palmas, making five appearances.
[2] As a curiosity, the news about the arrest of a drug trafficker nicknamed Bototo Illesca, like Mauricio, was shown in a Chilean TV program from Mega channel in 2011.
His former fellow footballer Tincho Gálvez thought that it was about Mauricio and called him, realizing that their nicknames matched.