Salvatore Abarca
# Salvatore Abarca

Salvatore Octavio Abarca Reyes (born 13 May 1986), also known as Tore Abarca, is a Chilean former footballer who played as a forward for clubs in Chile and abroad.

## Club career

As a youth player, Abarca was with both Cobresal and Magallanes. He made his professional debut with Magallanes at the age of sixteen and had two stints on loan with Hosanna and Provincial Talagante in the Chilean third level.

After a stint with Deportes Ovalle, even knocking Colo-Colo out from the 2008–09 Copa Chile and reaching the final match, he moved abroad and played for Ängelholms FF in Sweden, Triomphe de Liancourt in the Ligue Haïtienne, where he came thanks to the coach José Valladares and coincided with his compatriots Joaquín Gatica and Víctor Retamal, and Belgrano de Arequito in Argentina.

Back in Chile, he joined Provincial Talagante, becoming the top goalscorer of the Tercera A de Chile with seventeen goals. After, he played for Barnechea, San Antonio Unido and Deportes Valdivia.

His last club was Trasandino in 2016–17.

## After football

Abarca went on playing football at amateur level in clubs such as Salesianos FC.

## Honours

* Tercera División A de Chile Top Goalscorer: 2012
