Gonzalo as a Heerenveen player in 2007
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Gonzalo Manuel García García | ||
Date of birth | 13 October 1983 | ||
Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||
Height | 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) | ||
Playing position | Attacking midfielder | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Compostela | ||
Youth career | |||
La Rinconada | |||
Defensor | |||
Compostela | |||
Real Madrid | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2001–2003 | Real Madrid C | ||
2003 | Alcorcón | 1 | (0) |
2004 | Mérida | 5 | (0) |
2004–2005 | Palencia | 19 | (1) |
2005–2006 | AGOVV | 35 | (16) |
2006–2008 | Heerenveen | 14 | (1) |
2008 | → Heracles (loan) | 16 | (3) |
2008–2011 | Groningen | 49 | (7) |
2010 | → VVV (loan) | 14 | (3) |
2011–2012 | AEK Larnaca | 23 | (12) |
2012–2014 | Maccabi Tel Aviv | 27 | (4) |
2013–2014 | → Anorthosis (loan) | 19 | (9) |
2014–2016 | Anorthosis | 15 | (1) |
2015–2016 | → Heracles (loan) | 8 | (0) |
2016– | Compostela | 5 | (1) |
National team | |||
2001 | Spain U17 | 3 | (1) |
2002 | Spain U19 | 1 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 11 December 2016. |
Gonzalo Manuel García García (born 13 October 1983), known simply as Gonzalo, is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for SD Compostela as an attacking midfielder.
Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, Gonzalo moved to Spain at the age of 14, his grandparents hailing from Galicia.
He would eventually represent the Spain under-17 team, at the same time as Andrés Iniesta, José Antonio Reyes and Fernando Torres.
Gonzalo joined Real Madrid's youth system, but could never move past its third team as a senior. In his country of adoption he never played in higher than the third division, also representing AD Alcorcón, Mérida UD and CF Palencia.
In 2005, Gonzalo moved to the Netherlands, first with AGOVV Apeldoorn, being one of the leading top scorers in the second level season under manager Stanley Menzo. He immediately switched to the Eredivisie after signing with SC Heerenveen, playing his first match in the competition on 10 February 2007 against Vitesse Arnhem but appearing rarely over the course of two seasons, finishing 2007–08 on loan to Heracles Almelo and helping the club narrowly avoid relegation.