Nicolás De La Cruz

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Nicolás De La Cruz
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Nicolás De La Cruz (2017)
Personnel
Surname Diego Nicolás de la Cruz Arcosa
birthday June 1, 1997
place of birth Montevideo ,  Uruguay
size 167 cm
position midfield
Juniors
Years station
Coami
at least 2010–2015 Liverpool Montevideo
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015-2016 Liverpool Montevideo (Formativas)
2015-2017 Liverpool Montevideo 35 (8)
2017– River Plate 41 (5)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2012 Uruguay U17 6 (0)
at least 2015 Uruguay U18 at least 5 (0)
2015-2017 Uruguay U20 26 (5)
1 Only league games are given.
As of December 9, 2019

Diego Nicolás De La Cruz Arcosa (born June 1, 1997 in Montevideo ) is a Uruguayan football player .

Career

society

The 1.67 meter tall midfielder De La Cruz is the maternal half-brother of football player Carlos Sánchez . He started playing football in the so-called Baby fútbol near Coami, a club from his barrio . He later joined Liverpool Montevideo at the age of 12 and was part of the Septima División team there in 2011. The following year he was active in the Sexta División. In 2013 he was a member of the U16, in 2014 he played for the team in the Quinta División. Then in 2015 he first went through the team of the Cuarta División and the reserve (Formativas) competing in the Tercera División and was finally promoted to the professional team of the first division. With the U19 he was Uruguayan champion in the Cuarta División in 2015. This resulted in qualification for the Copa Libertadores U20 2016 . He made his debut in the Primera División in the Apertura 2015 on September 13, 2015 in a 1-0 away win against El Tanque Sisley , when he was called into the starting line-up by coach Juan Verzeri . In the 2015/16 season, he played 17 first division matches (one goal). He was also used in five games of the U20 Copa Libertadores in 2016 and scored four goals. The team finished the competition in second place after losing 1-0 in the final against São Paulo FC . During the first division season in 2016, he was used eleven times (four goals) in the league. This was followed by three goals in seven league appearances in the 2017 season and one game (no goal) in the 2017 Copa Sudamericana . In August 2017, the Argentine club River Plate signed him , which paid a transfer fee of 3.5 million US dollars for 25 percent of the transfer rights. He signed a contract that ran until June 2021.

National team

De La Cruz has received appointments in Uruguay's U17 selection . He had been part of the Uruguayan U18 national team under coach Alejandro Garay since April 2015 at the latest and took part in the international U18 tournament Suwon JS 2015 in South Korea in May 2015 . In the 2-1 win against France, he was in the starting line-up on May 1, 2015. He was also nominated for the U18 tournament in July 2015 in Los Angeles . Uruguay won the competition. De La Cruz played in the games against the USA and the Czech Republic. Further U18 appearances date from July 13, 2015 in a friendly against Xolos de Tijuana and from October 12, 2015 against Russia.

successes

  • Second in the Copa Libertadores Sub-20: 2016
  • Uruguayan champions with the U19 (Cuarta División): 2015
  • Recopa Sudamericana : 2019 with River Plate

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Profile on soccerway.com , accessed August 11, 2017
  2. ↑ De la Cruz, la joya de Belvedere (Spanish) on ovaciondigital.com.uy of September 26, 2015, accessed on April 9, 2016
  3. ↑ Debut en Primera División (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 9, 2016
  4. ↑ Liverpool a la Libertadores Sub 20; Plantel de primera licenciado… (Spanish) on tenfield.com.uy of December 7, 2015, accessed April 9, 2016
  5. ↑ El Tanque Sisley vs. Liverpool 0-1 , accessed April 9, 2016
  6. ↑ Fin de la novela: Nicolás De La Cruz seguirá su carrera en River Plate argentino (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy of August 10, 2017, accessed on August 11, 2017
  7. ↑ Nicolás De la Cruz firmó contrato con River Plate hasta junio del 2021 (Spanish) on futbol.com.uy from August 15, 2017, accessed on August 16, 2017
  8. ↑ Debut en Primera División (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 9, 2016
  9. ↑ Sub-18 viaja a Corea (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 9, 2016
  10. ↑ Uruguay 2-1 Francia (sub-18) (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed April 9, 2016
  11. ↑ Torneo Sub-18 en Los Ángeles (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 9, 2016
  12. ↑ Sub-18: Uruguay 2-1 Estados Unidos (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 9, 2016
  13. ↑ La sub-18 venció 1-0 a Rep. Checa (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 9, 2016
  14. ↑ La sub-18 empató ante Tijuana (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 9, 2016
  15. ↑ Uruguay venció 2-1 a Rusia (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 9, 2016
personal data
SURNAME Cruz, Nicolás de la
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Cruz Arcosa, Diego Nicolás de la (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Uruguayan soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH June 1, 1997
PLACE OF BIRTH Montevideo , Uruguay