Mariano Andújar

Mariano Andújar
Mariano Andújar in the Albiceleste jersey
Personnel
Surname	Mariano Gonzalo Andújar
birthday	July 30, 1983
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
size	194 cm
position	goalkeeper
Juniors
Years	station
0000-2001	CA Huracan
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2002-2005	CA Huracan	60 (0)
2005-2006	→  US Palermo  (loan)	11 (0)
2006-2009	Estudiantes	104 (0)
2009-2014	Catania Calcio	146 (0)
2012	→ Estudiantes (loan)	17 (0)
2014–	SSC Naples	15 (0)
2015–	→ Estudiantes (loan)	0 (0)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2009–	Argentina	11 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: October 26, 2015 2 As of September 3, 2014

Mariano Gonzalo Andujar (* the thirtieth July 1983 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine football - goalkeeper .

Career

society

Mariano Andújar started his career in the youth team of CA Huracán . In his first season 2002/03 he completed seven games for Huracán in the Primera División , but had to relegate to the Nacional B with the team at the end of the season . In the second highest Argentine league he managed to rise to the team's regular goalkeeper. For the 2005/06 season, the club loaned him to the Italian first division club US Palermo . At Palermo he initially remained one of the substitute goalkeepers. After two of his competitors were sold in January 2006, he established himself as a regular goalkeeper in the second half of the season. However, he lost his regular place after a few games and returned to Huracán after the loan ended. The goalkeeper left the club shortly afterwards and signed a contract with Estudiantes de La Plata .

Andújar quickly became a regular at Estudiantes and won his first title in 2006 with the Apertura . As a result, he qualified with the team for the Copa Libertadores 2009 . From the fourth group game until the second leg of the semi-finals, he stayed without a goal for 800 minutes, surpassing Hugo Gatti's record . In the final, they met Brazilian club Cruzeiro EC , against whom they won the title after a 0-0 first leg at home (and thus in all seven home games without conceding), away with a 2-1 win.

On June 24, 2009, the Italian Serie A club Catania Calcio announced the goalkeeper's commitment. The Argentine signed a 4-year contract with the Sicilian club. Andújar prevailed after a short time against his rivals Tomáš Košický and Andrea Campagnolo and has been the goalkeeper of Catania ever since.

On January 28, 2014 Andújar signed a contract with SSC Napoli . However, he ended the season on loan at Catania and joined his new team for the new 2014/15 season . In September 2015 it was awarded to Estudiantes.

National team

Andújar made his debut on June 6, 2009 in the 1-0 victory over Colombia for the Argentine national team. He was appointed by national coach Diego Maradona for the following qualifying games for the 2010 World Cup and used in three other games. In fourth place in the CONMEBOL zone, Andújar qualified with the Argentines for the 2010 World Cup . However, he was not used there.

successes

• Vice World Champion : 2014

Web links

• Mariano Andújar in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile on the website of Catania Calcio
• Bet statistics on aic.football.it
• Mariano Andújar in the database of National-Football-Teams.com (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ goal.com: Estudiantes: Andujar es récord y se metió en la historia grande de la Copa (June 2, 2009)
2. ↑ Estudiantes wins Copa Libertadores
3. ↑ Andujar al Catania ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2009 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.