Gastón Guruceaga (footballer, born 1995)

Gastón Guruceaga Fernández (born 15 March 1995) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Chilean Primera División side Club Deportivo Palestino on loan from Peñarol.

For other people named Gastón Guruceaga, see Gastón Guruceaga.
Gastón Guruceaga
Guruceaga with Palestino in 2020
Personal information
Full name Gastón Guruceaga Fernández
Date of birth (1995-03-15) 15 March 1995
Place of birth Artigas, Uruguay
Height 1.94 m (6 ft 4 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 Palestino
(on loan from Peñarol)
Number 1
Youth career
Fénix
Peñarol
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2015– Peñarol 65 (0)
2018 → Guaraní (loan) 8 (0)
2019 → Tigre (loan) 2 (0)
2020– → Palestino (loan) 8 (0)
National team‡
2010 Uruguay U17 3 (0)
2014–2015 Uruguay U20 24 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 December 2020
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 11 June 2015

Club career

Peñarol

Guruceaga played all his career for Peñarol. He made his professional debut in club football on the first game of the 2015–16 Uruguayan Primera División season against Cerro at Estadio Centenario on a 3-0 win for his team.[1] Peñarol won the Uruguayan Primera División that year.

On the following season and due to the last minute departure to italian side Fiorentina of planned to be captain of the team Maximiliano Olivera, Guruceaga was chosen to be the captain of Peñarol by the manager Jorge da Silva with only 21 years.[2]

On 24 January 2018, Guruceaga was loaned to Paraguayan club Guaraní for one year.[3]

International career

He represented Uruguay on the 2015 South American Youth Football Championship held in Uruguay between 14 of January and 7 of February and where the local team with Guruceaga starting every game of the tournament, finished third qualyfing for the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup. Guruceaga was named best goalkeeper of the tournament.[4]

He was selected to represent the national team in the 2015 FIFA U-20 World Cup later that year where he also was the starting goalkeeper on all the four games Uruguay played on the tournament.

Guruceaga was named in Uruguay's provisional squad for Copa América Centenario but was cut from the final squad.[5]

Honours
Peñarol
Tigre

References
  1. "Peñarol primera sonrisa con goles, 3:0". Tenfield. 16 August 2015. Retrieved 14 September 2015.
  2. "Guruceaga, el nuevo capitán…". Tenfield. 3 September 2016. Retrieved 4 September 2016.
  3. "Oficial: Gastón Guruceaga es nuevo portero de Guaraní". D10. 24 January 2018. Retrieved 8 March 2018.
  4. "Guruceaga elegido como el mejor arquero y Amaral como la reveleación". lr21.com.uy. 8 February 2015. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  5. "Luis Suarez leads Uruguay's 35-man Copa America squad list". espnfc.co.uk. 29 April 2016. Retrieved 11 July 2016.
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