At club level, Olivares played for Santiago Wanderers, Magallanes, Cobreloa, Unión Española, among others. At international level, Olivares played for the Chile national team between 1965 and 1974, gaining 33 caps.
Olivares was born in Caracas. As a child, he studied under Don Ambrosio Carreño. In 1784, he began teaching in Caracas, and this same year Pedro Ramón Palacios y Sojo entrusted to him the direction of the Academia del Oratorio de San Felipe…
Juan Manuel Olivares (born 14 July 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Deportivo Morón of the Primera Nacional in Argentina.