Chory Castro

This article is about the Uruguayan soccer player Gonzalo "Chory" Castro. For the German soccer player of the same name, see Gonzalo Castro .

Chory Castro
Chory Castro at Real Sociedad (2015)
Personnel
Surname	Gonzalo Castro Irizábal
birthday	September 14, 1984
place of birth	Trinidad ,  Uruguay
size	176 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Porongos (Trinidad)
	Nacional (Flores)
	Durazno
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2002-2007	Nacional Montevideo	98 (23)
2007–2012	RCD Mallorca	131 (23)
2012-2016	Real Sociedad	94 (13)
2016-2018	Málaga CF	71 0(6)
2018–	Nacional Montevideo	9 0(0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals)
2005-2013	Uruguay	5 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. As of October 10, 2018

"Chory" Castro , full name Gonzalo Castro Irizábal , (born September 14, 1984 in Trinidad ) is a Uruguayan football player who has played in the Primera División for Nacional Montevideo since 2018 .

Player career

society

The Uruguayan "Chory" Castro - also known as Chori Castro - who received his school education at the escuela "Juana de Ibarburú" in Flores and then at Liceo 1 and 2 there, began playing football at Porongos in his hometown. This was followed by positions at the local Nacional association and at Durazno. At the age of 17 he moved to Montevideo. There coach Daniel Carreño brought him to the first team Nacionals , where he made his debut in 2002 and played until 2007. With the Bolsos he was able to win three championships (2002, 2005, 2005/06). His achievements in South America did not escape the European clubs either, so that RCD Mallorca was able to announce its commitment in the summer of 2007. In the seasons 2007/08 to 2011/12 he played there from his debut on September 16, 2007 against Villarreal to his last league game on May 13, 2012 131 first division games and scored 23 goals. Since the 2012/13 season he has been in the ranks of Real Sociedad San Sebastián , where he played 31 games in the BBVA league in that season, in which he scored seven goals. In the 2013/14 season he made 23 other league appearances (two goals). He also played two games in qualifying and five games in the main Champions League competition . In the 2014/15 season, which his club finished twelfth in the table, he ran 32 times (four goals) in the BBVA League and three times (no goal) in the Europa League qualification. This was followed by eight first division appearances (no goal) for the club in the 2015/16 season. During the season he terminated his contract, which ran until June 30, 2016, and moved to Malaga FC in the first few days of January 2016 . There he made his debut on January 10, 2016 with a starting eleven in the away game at UD Las Palmas and played 16 first division games (one goal) in the 2015/16 season. He has made 29 league appearances and one goal for the 2016/17 season.

National team

"Chory" Castro made his debut on August 17, 2005 in the friendly international match against Spain's selection under coach Jorge Fossati in Gijón in the Uruguayan national soccer team. He was in the starting line-up, but was replaced by Mario Regueiro at the break . On October 26, 2005, he came to another use in the Celeste when he played the second half in the 3-1 loss to Mexico. He completed his third international game under coach Óscar Tabárez - also as a substitute at halftime - in the 2-0 defeat on November 15, 2006 against the national team of Georgia, which was then supervised by Klaus Toppmöller . This was followed by a long international break, before he was used again for the first time in the game against Poland on November 14, 2012. He played his fifth and so far last game for the national team on February 6, 2013. The opponent at this meeting was Spain.

titles and achievements

• 3 × Uruguayan champions: 2002, 2005, 2005/06

Private

Castro is married to Luciana Beal.

Web links

• Chory Castro in the soccerway.com database
• Chory Castro in the database of weltfussball.de

• Chory Castro in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ see the official Twitter account of Chory Castro.
2. ↑ see his profile on lfp.es.
3. ↑ BIOGRAFÍA ( Memento of the original dated August 29, 2013 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) on chorycastro.com, accessed June 9, 2013 
4. ↑ profile on bdfutbol.com , accessed on April 21, 2014
5. ↑ Statistics profile 2014/15 on kicker.de , accessed on February 1, 2016
6. ↑ ^{a b} Statistics profile 2015/16 on kicker.de , accessed on July 2, 2017
7. ↑ Pero sigue allá (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of January 5, 2016, accessed February 1, 2016
8. ↑ Statistics profile 2016/17 on kicker.de , accessed on July 2, 2017
9. ^ Uruguay - International Matches 2001-2005 , accessed June 9, 2013
10. ^ Uruguay - International Matches 2006-2010 , accessed June 9, 2013
11. ↑ Uruguay - International Matches 2011-2015 , accessed September 20, 2013