Marcelo Otero

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Marcelo Otero
Personnel
Surname Marcelo Alejandro Otero Larzábal
birthday April 14, 1971
place of birth Montevideo ,  Uruguay
size 176 cm
position attack
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1990-1991 Rampla Juniors
1992-1995 Club Atlético Peñarol at least 57 (29)
1995-1999 Vicenza Calcio 96 (37)
1999-2003 Sevilla FC 40 0(2)
2001-2002 →  Colón de Santa Fe  (loan) 13 0(0)
2003-2004 Centro Atlético Fénix 12 0(3)
2013 Huracan del Paso de la Arena 3 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1994-2000 Uruguay 25 (10)
1 Only league games are given.

Marcelo Otero , full name Marcelo Alejandro Otero Larzábal , (born April 14, 1971 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan football player .

Career

society

Depending on the sources, 1.76 meters or 1.77 meters tall offensive player "Marujo" Otero belonged to the squad of the then Uruguayan second division team Rampla Juniors in 1990 and 1991 and made his debut in 1990 against CA Progreso . From 1992 up to and including the Clausura 1995 he played for Club Atlético Peñarol and won the Uruguayan championship in 1993, 1994 and 1995. In 1993 he was there level with Wilmar Cabrera with twelve goals top scorer in the Primera División . In 1993 and 1994 he reached the finals for the Copa Conmebol with the Aurinegros , where they were defeated, however, against Botafogo FR and São Paulo FC . He then moved to Italy to Vicenza Calcio , where he played 96 Serie A games in four seasons from 1995 to 1999 and scored 37 goals. He also won the Coppa Italia with the team in 1996/97 . Following his time in Italy , he ran for Sevilla FC in the 1999/2000 season in 22 games (one goal) in the Primera División and two games in the Copa del Rey . He made his debut with the Spaniards when he met Celta de Vigo on August 29, 1999. After relegation at the end of the season, he played 18 games (one goal) in 2000/2001 until his last appearance on June 9, 2001 against FC Extremadura Segunda División and ieins in the Copa del Rey. In the 2001/02 season, he played his last for Sevilla on October 10, 2001, when he was used in the Copa del Rey against Ciudad de Murcia. Although he is also included in the Seville squad in 2002/03, he is no longer listed there. Instead, he completed in the meantime in the Clausura 2002 13 league games for the Argentine club Colón de Santa Fe in the Primera División . According to his own statement, he first returned to Peñarol from Spain in 2003, remained there lucklessly and then joined Colón de Santa Fe. In 2003 and 2004, after his return to Uruguay, he was under contract with Centro Atlético Fénix and then initially ended his career. At the end of December 2012, it was announced that Otero was returning to professional football and, from 2013, he would be working for the Uruguayan second division club Huracán del Paso de la Arena . As a reason for returning to professional football, he stated that he loved football and that this decision was not made for economic reasons or to pass the time. At the end of his career in 2004, he had received offers from Qatar and Mexico - even some time later - but rejected them because of his two children.

National team

Otero was a member of the Uruguayan senior team . He made his Celeste debut on October 19, 1994. On April 24, 1996 he scored the 1000th international goal of Uruguay in the World Cup qualifying game against the Venezuelan selection. In total, depending on the sources, he completed 25 or 26 international matches for Uruguay and scored ten goals. He took part in the 1995 Copa America with Uruguay and won the title. His last appearance was on August 15, 2000 against Colombia in World Cup qualification. At that time, Celeste's coach was Daniel Alberto Passarella .

successes

  • Copa America: 1995
  • Uruguayan champions: 1993, 1994, 1995
  • Coppa Italia: 1996/97
  • Primera División (Uruguay) top scorer: 1993

After the active career

At least in March 2014, he worked for the Huracán Football Club as a sports director. In October 2014, he was the victim of an armed robbery at his debt collection agency in Barrio Cerro .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c Page no longer available , search in web archives: Profile on playerhistory.com , accessed on August 11, 2014@1@ 2Template: Dead Link / soccerdatabase.eu
  2. ↑ profile on bdfutbol.com , accessed on August 11, 2014
  3. ↑ a b "Juego al fútbol porque lo amo" ( Memento from August 11, 2014 in the web archive archive.today ) (Spanish) from April 29, 2013, accessed on August 11, 2014
  4. ↑ ¿Retirado yo? (Spanish) from aguantenche.com.uy on December 22, 2012, accessed on August 11, 2014
  5. ↑ a b Statistical data on international appearances in the Uruguayan national team on rsssf.com , accessed on August 11, 2014
  6. ↑ a b Uruguay - International Matches 1996-2000 on rsssf.com, accessed on August 11, 2014
  7. ↑ “Marujo” Otero y “Nico” Rotundo de reencuentro en el Roberto (Spanish) on tenfield.com.uy of March 29, 2014, accessed on March 4, 2016
  8. ↑ Violento atraco a local de cobranza de Marcelo Otero (Spanish) on espectador.com from October 4, 2014, accessed on March 4, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Otero, Marcelo
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Otero Larzábal, Marcelo Alejandro (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1971
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay