Gerardo Alcoba
Alcoba (center ) vies with Real Madrid's Karim Benzema
Gerardo Alcoba Rebollo ( born November 25, 1984 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is an Uruguayan football player.
Club career
The 1.84 m wide central defender Alcoba was from the Clausura 2004 in the squad of the Uruguayan first division club Montevideo Wanderers. In the season 2005/ 06 is for him there a use in the Primera División recorded while he completed 27 top-flight appearances are in the following season to book. Since the Apertura 2008 he played for Peñarol. There he won the Uruguayan championship in the 2009/10 season. In addition, he completed three games in the Copa Libertadores 2009 (2) and 2011 (1), 2009, four contested matches in the Copa Sudamericana and also four in the Liguilla Pre Libertadores 2009 for the Aurinegros. In January 2011 Alcoba suffered during Copa Bimbo during the game against Velez Sarsfield a cruciate ligament injury, as a result, at least six months injury lay-off was predicted for him. He has since been no further appearances for the Montevideaner. On 3 February 2012, was then, according to their having completed the part Alcoba completed 77 Primera División inserts ( 10 goals ) for the Aurinegros, his change on loan to Club Atlético Colón reported, where he signed a half year contract, for an option to purchase the Argentines contains and is intended to replace the injured Ronald Raldes. Previously had a planned change to the Peruvian club Universitario de Deportes, whose settlement he was already in Peru, battered due to the serious financial problems of the Miraflores Club. In Santa Fe, he meets at Colón on his also playing there compatriots Javier Chevantón and Pablo Lima.
Until his last mission provisionally on March 15, 2014, he came so far to 55 league appearances for Colón, where he scored a total of three hits.
National
The defender is a member of the Uruguayan national football team. In total he completed for his country so far two Friendship matches against Turkey and Japan in 2008, where he could not score a goal.
Achievements
- Uruguayan Champion 2009/10