Jonathan Urretaviscaya
Jonathan Matías Urretaviscaya da Luz, called Urreta or El Rayo, (born 19 March 1990 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan football player.
Career
Association
Urreta began his professional career at age 17 with the Uruguayan club CA River Plate Montevideo. There he made his debut on 16 February 2008 at the game against Liverpool and it contributed a goal to make it 2-0 victory of his team at. In the Clausura 2008, he scored nine goals in 15 games then, before he was introduced on 24 July 2008 with the Portuguese club Benfica Lisbon as a newcomer. With his new club, for whom he met directly in his first 26 July 2008 in a friendly against Blackburn Rovers, he graduated in the first season, however - due to strong competition at his position by Angel Di María and José Antonio Reyes - only ten games, one of which is over 90 minutes. His first league goal he scored penultimate matchday of the 2008/09 season against SC Braga. His first European Cup Game of the 1.73 m wide midfielder on 18 September 2008 with the 2:3 defeat to Napoli. As the following season only was come further use, he moved for the Torneo Clausura 2010 in his home to Peñarol, where he met four times in his 17 games this season and thus contributed to winning the title in the Uruguayan championship. In the season 2010/11 he made another attempt, in European football to gain a foothold, however, arrived in Spain with Deportivo La Coruna only six scoreless inserts. Urretaviscaya returned again back to Uruguay. In the Torneo Clausura 2011, the highest Uruguayan league there he met in eight games for Peñarol three times. With the Aurinegros and also achieved the finals at the Copa Libertadores 2011 against FC Santos, where Urretaviscaya in final second leg came to train as a substitute, the defeat but could not prevent. Since the season 2011/12 he was in the squad of the Portuguese club Vitória Guimarães. There he completed 14 league games ( two goals). After completion of the loan he returned to Benfica. Until March 16, 2014 there are four more matches in Portugal's first league - all in the 2012 /13 - recorded, in which he scored one goal. He also ran 24 times in the Liga de Honra at Benfica's second team, and scored four goals.
National
Urretaviscaya was a member of the Uruguayan U- 15 team, where he made his debut under coach Ángel Castelnoble on 25 October 2005 in the match against Bolivia at the U -15 South American Championship in 2005 and played one of his total of two matches for this team. Already in the following year attacked on 7 June 2006 for the first time Roland Marcenaro, coach of U -17, in a friendly against Chile on his services back. He was then nominated for the U-17 South American Championship 2007. In this tournament, he was a regular player and graduated four games in Ecuador, in which he scored two goals. His record in the U- 17 has a total of nine games and five hits. Also in the trained by Diego Aguirre U -20 he came to the train and made his debut on national level in this age group on 1 December 2007. Opponents of this international match was the United States. As a result, he came to this selection 17 times and scored eight goals for use. He was part of the banns at the U -20 South American Championship in 2009 and also took part in the U-20 World Cup Egypt 2009. In the latter tournament he completed three games in which he shot two goals. Coach Oscar Tabarez called him then in the Olympic team. There he made his first of four international matches 11 July 2012 against Chile. In football tournament of the 2012 Olympic Games in London Urretaviscaya a member of the Uruguayan squad.
Achievements
- Winning the Taça da Liga 2009 with Benfica
- Uruguayan champion (2009 /10)