title: Mauricio Morales
text: # Mauricio Morales
  
  Mauricio Geraldiny Morales Olivares (born 7 January 2000), also known as Mauro Morales, is a Chilean professional footballer who plays as a central midfielder for Primera B de Chile club Deportes Antofagasta on loan from Universidad de Chile.
  
  ## Club career
  
  Morales made his professional debut in a Copa Chile match against Cobresal on 7 September 2019. On 21 December, he signed his first contract as a professional footballer. Morales made his international club debut in a Copa Libertadores match against San Lorenzo de Almagro on 18 March 2021.
  
  In July 2023, Morales joined on loan to Deportes Antofagasta in the Primera B de Chile.
  
  ## International career
  
  At early age, he represented Chile at under-15 level at the 2015 South American U-15 Championship and winning the friendly 2015 Aspire Tri-Series International Tournament in Doha, Qatar. Later, he represented the under-17 team in two friendly matches against the United States, at the 2017 South American U-17 Championship – where Chile finished runners-up – and at the 2017 FIFA U-17 World Cup.
  
  He played all the matches for the under-17s at the friendly tournament, the 2017 Lafarge Foot Avenir in France, better known as Tournament Limoges, which Chile won after defeating Belgium and Poland, and drawing to France.
  
  ## Honours
  
  ### Chile U15
  
  * Aspire Tri-Series International Tournament: 2015
  
  ### Chile U17
  
  * Tournoi de Limoges: 2017
  