Maximiliano Gómez (soccer player, 1996)

Maximiliano Gomez
Maximiliano Gómez (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Maximiliano Gómez González
birthday	August 14, 1996
place of birth	Paysandú ,  Uruguay
size	186 cm
position	attack
Juniors
Years	station
2013	Littoral
2013-2015	Defensor Sporting
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2014	Defensor Sporting (Formativas)
2015-2017	Defensor Sporting	47 (28)
2017-2019	Celta de Vigo	71 (30)
2019–	Valencia CF	11 0(5)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2017–	Uruguay	14 0(2)
1 Only league games are given. As of November 2, 2019 2 As of October 6, 2019

Maximiliano Gómez , full name Maximiliano Gómez González , (born August 14, 1996 in Paysandú ) is a Uruguayan football player .

Career

The 1.86-meter-tall offensive player Gómez is the brother of the football player Richard Gómez (2015 at Club Atlético Torque ). He played in youth football at least 2013 for Litoral in his native Paysandú. In that year he completed a one-week trial training session at Defensor Sporting , impressed and switched to the Montevideans, where he lived far away from his family in the dormitory of the club's youth players. In 2013 he was there in the team of the Quinta División and in 2014 and 2015 in that of the Cuarta División. In 2014 he was also part of the team in the Tercera División. In 2015 he was promoted to the professional team of the first division. In the professional field, he made his debut on September 15, 2015 as part of the Copa Sudamericana 2015 as a substitute in the 89th minute of play for Héctor Acuña in the 1-0 away win against the Peruvian club Universitario de Deportes . He made his debut in the Primera División in the Apertura on October 4, 2015 in the 0: 4 away defeat against Nacional Montevideo , when he was also substituted on by coach Juan Tejera in the 46th minute for Facundo Castro . In the 2015/16 season he played 21 first division matches (14 goals) and four games (no goal) in the Copa Sudamericana . During the 2016 season he played 14 times in the league (four goals). In the 2017 season he made twelve first division appearances (ten goals) and one (one goal) in the 2017 Copa Sudamericana . At the beginning of July 2017 he moved to the Spanish first division club Celta de Vigo .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b} Profile on soccerway.com , accessed July 15, 2017
2. ↑ Un "inconsciente": con 19 años, "Maxi" Gómez hizo historia violeta (Spanish) on ovaciondigital.com.uy of October 3, 2015, accessed on April 8, 2016
3. ↑ Dos futbolistas debutaron en 1ª (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 8, 2016
4. ↑ Universitario vs. Defensor Sporting 0-1 on soccerway.com, accessed April 8, 2016
5. ↑ Nacional vs. Defensor Sporting 4 - 0 , accessed April 8, 2016