Gustavo Munúa

Gustavo Munúa

Munúa presented as a coach of LDU in 2017
Personal information
Full name	Gustavo Adolfo Munúa Vera
Date of birth	(1978-01-27) 27 January 1978 (age 39)
Place of birth	Montevideo, Uruguay
Height	1.89 m (6 ft 2 1⁄2 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team	LDU (coach)
Youth career
1986–1997	Nacional
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1997–2003	Nacional	102	(3)
2003–2009	Deportivo La Coruña	27	(0)
2009–2010	Málaga	38	(0)
2010–2013	Levante	86	(0)
2013–2014	Fiorentina	0	(0)
2014–2015	Nacional	41	(0)
Total		294	(3)
National team
1998–2004	Uruguay	21	(0)
Teams managed
2015–2016	Nacional
2017–	LDU
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

Gustavo Adolfo Munúa Vera (born 27 January 1978) is a Uruguayan former footballer who played as a goalkeeper, and the current coach of Ecuadorian club L.D.U. Quito.

After starting out at Nacional he spent most of his professional career in Spain, mainly at Deportivo de La Coruña where he could never be a starter in six seasons. He also played in the country for Málaga and Levante, being first-choice and appearing in 151 La Liga games over the course of one full decade.

An Uruguayan international for six years, Munúa represented the country at the 2002 World Cup.

Born in Montevideo, Munúa started his career at local Club Nacional de Football, where he won four Uruguyan league titles in a row. He held the record of being the first goalkeeper to score in Uruguayan football, when he netted from a free-kick in a league win against Central Español.

Munúa also scored some goals from penalties, both in the league and the Libertadores Cup.

Munúa left Nacional in 2003, joining La Liga side Deportivo de La Coruña on a six-year link, where he struggled to gain first-choice goalkeeper status: from 2003 to 2006 he was topped by Spanish international José Francisco Molina and, subsequently, faced stiff competition from Israel's Dudu Aouate.