Gerardo Alcoba

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Gerardo Alcoba
Alcoba vs Benzema.jpg
Alcoba (center) in a duel with Real Madrid's Karim Benzema
Personnel
Surname Gerardo Alcoba Rebollo
birthday November 25, 1984
place of birth Montevideo ,  Uruguay
size 184 cm
position Defender
Juniors
Years station
Peñarol de Maldonado
Club Ituzaingó (Maldonado)
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
at least 2002 Club Ituzaingó (Maldonado) ? 0(1)
2004-2008 Montevideo Wanderers 28 0(0)
2008–2012 Peñarol 77 (10)
2012-2014 →  Club Atlético Colón  (loan) 63 0(3)
2014 LDU Quito 19 0(2)
2014-2018 UNAM Pumas 86 0(7)
2018– Santos Laguna 21 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
at least 2007 Uruguay U-23
2008 Uruguay 2 0(0)
1 Only league games are given.
As of November 2, 2018

Gerardo Alcoba Rebollo (born November 25, 1984 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan football player .

Career

society

Alcoba started playing football in baby fútbol near Peñarol de Maldonado. He then joined the Ituzaingó Club in Maldonado , which is located near the Atlantic coast . There he made his debut as a 16-year-old in the first team. In 2002 he was still there in the Liga Mayor de Maldonado in the Primera División and scored a goal in the Torneo Clasificatorio. At the age of 17 he moved to the Montevideo Wanderers , where he was first used in the Cuarta División . The 1.84 m tall central defender was in the first division squad of the Uruguayan capital city club at least from Clausura 2004. In the 2005/06 season there is a use in the Primera División for him , while he completed 27 first division games in the following season. During his engagement with Wanderers, traces of cocaine were detected in a doping test in August 2007 - just like his teammate Mathías Corujo - after a game against Bella Vista .

Since the Apertura 2008 he played for Peñarol . There he won the Uruguayan Championship in the 2009/10 season. He also played three games in the Copa Libertadores in 2009 (2) and 2011 (1), played four games in the Copa Sudamericana in 2009 and four in the Liguilla Pre Libertadores 2009 for the Aurinegros . In January 2011, Alcoba suffered a cruciate ligament rupture at the Copa Bimbo during the game against Vélez Sársfield , as a result of which he was predicted to be injured for at least six months. Since then he has not come to any other missions for the Montevideans. On February 3, 2012, after a total of 77 Primera División appearances (10 goals) for the Aurinegros had been completed by Alcoba by then , his move on loan to Club Atlético Colón was announced, where he signed a half-year contract that included a purchase option for the Argentines contained and was supposed to replace the injured Ronald Raldes . Previously, a planned move to the Peruvian club Universitario de Deportes , which he was already in Peru to process, was disrupted due to the considerable financial problems of the Lima clubs. In Santa Fe he met his compatriots Javier Chevantón and Pablo Lima, who were also playing there at Colón .

Up to his last appearance on May 3, 2014, he made 63 league appearances for Colón, in which he scored a total of three goals. He was also used in one game of the Copa Argentina and three games of the Copa Sudamericana . In June 2014 his move to Ecuador to join LDU Quito was announced. With the Ecuadorians he was used 19 times (two goals) in the Primera A. At the end of December 2014, he was introduced as a newcomer to the Mexican club UNAM Pumas , to which he was loaned by Quito. At that time he was under contract with the Ecuadorians for two more years. For the Mexicans he has so far (as of August 10, 2017) completed 77 first division games and scored six goals. He was also used four times (no goal) in the Copa México , eight times (three goals) in the Copa Libertadores 2016 and twice (no goal) in the CONCACAF Champions Cup .

National team

At least in June 2007 Alcoba was a member of Uruguay 's U-23 team, which was supervised by Roland Marcenaro . The defender was also used in the Uruguayan national soccer team. Overall, he completed two international friendlies against Turkey and Japan for his home country in 2008, in which he could not score a goal.

successes

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The date of birth is based on playerhistory.com, but ESPN names January 25th
  2. ↑ Uruguay 2002 - Liga Mayor de Maldonado on rsssf.com, accessed June 21, 2014
  3. ↑ GERARDO ALCOBA - "En los clásicos no hay favoritos, son para el turf" (Spanish), accessed on June 21, 2014
  4. ↑ Doble caso de doping en Uruguay (Spanish) on geofutbol.com, accessed on March 14, 2015
  5. ↑ Se confirmaron los dopajes de Gerardo Alcoba y Mathías Corujo (Spanish) in La República on August 10, 2007, accessed on March 14, 2015
  6. ↑ Gerardo Alcoba es jugador de Colón santafedeportivo.com February 3, 2012
  7. ↑ playerhistory.com lists him as a member of the Apertura 2008 squad, while ESPN lists Alcoba's missions for Penarol for the first time in the 2007/08 season
  8. ↑ The use of the Copa Libertadores 2011 is not recorded at ESPN. This info is based on playerhistory.com
  9. ↑ Problemas de Alcoba (Spanish) at www.futbol.com.uy of January 21, 2011, accessed on October 14, 2012
  10. ↑ Alcoba jugará en Colón - Cuando llega, llega (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of February 3, 2012, accessed on February 3, 2012
  11. ↑ Statistics profile on ESPNSports , accessed on June 21, 2014
  12. ↑ a b c Profile on fichajes.com , accessed January 30, 2015
  13. ↑ Fútbol: Uruguayo Alcoba llega de refuerzo a Liga de Quito (Spanish) of June 10, 2014, accessed on June 21, 2014
  14. ↑ Nuevos pupilos; Pumas presenta a sus refuerzos (Spanish) on excelsior.com.mx on December 27, 2014, accessed on January 30, 2015
  15. ↑ Jonathan Ramis y Gerardo Alcoba continuarán su carrera en el Pumas de México (Spanish) on futbolizados.com from December 15, 2014, accessed on January 30, 2015
  16. ^ Profile on soccerway.com , accessed August 10, 2017
  17. ↑ Ronald Marcenaro citó a 22 jugadores para Sub 23 (Spanish) in La República on June 16, 2007, accessed on December 23, 2014
  18. ↑ Uruguayo Gerardo Alcoba se sumaría a Alianza Lima ( Memento from December 24, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) (Spanish) from January 10, 2012, accessed on December 12, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Alcoba, Gerardo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Alcoba Rebollo, Gerardo (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH November 25, 1984
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay