Maximiliano Pereira

Victorio Maximiliano Pereira Páez ( born June 8, 1984 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan football player. Currently, the right-back plays for the Portuguese giants Benfica.

  • 2.1 In the club
  • 2.2 In the National Team

Career

Association

Pereira has three brothers and two sisters. He was 14 when his father died of a heart attack and the mother had now alone securing the livelihood of the family. Pereira was therefore at a young age at by repainting and a sales job in a Toto kiosk to the livelihood of the family. With the football games Pereira began as a six- year-old in baby fútbol at Bella Vista. From there he moved to the Octava División to Defensor. The " El Mono " or " monitoring " said Pereira made ​​his debut there in 2002 in the Primera División and was after he had been still a reserve player for the first time in the Clausura 2003 core of the team. In Defensor he should have graduated to 2007 119 games in which he scored 25 goals. Then he joined us in 2007 for a transfer fee of three million euros for José Antonio Camacho trained Portuguese club Benfica. The Portuguese thus acquired 70 % of the transfer rights to the player. 30 % of these rights remained first with his previous club Defensor, but were also acquired at a later stage of Benfica. For the seasons 2007/08 to 2012/ 13 155 inserts and eight goals are reported to him. For the Portuguese, until 2008, he played at right midfield. For the season 2008/ 09 changed rights defenders Nélson Marcos Betis Sevilla so that Maxi could take the items in the core team.

In the current season 2013/14 he ran so far (as of March 23, 2014 ) in 21 league encounters. A goal he did not achieve it. He also came in four games of the UEFA Champions League 2013 /14 and two games of the Taça de Portugal 2013/14 to train.

National

Maxi Pereira denied on October 26, 2005, his first senior international match against Mexico, which was lost, however. Under Uruguay's coach Oscar Washington Tabarez new to Pereira became the starting player, was convened in 2006 for several friendly matches and took part in the Copa América 2007 in Venezuela part where Uruguay finished fourth, and he played four times from the beginning. In qualifying for the 2010 World Cup, he played 15 of the 20 qualifying matches, the remaining five, such as the play-off first leg against Costa Rica, he missed due to injuries and suspensions. At the World Cup finals Maxi Pereira reached with Uruguay for the first time since 1970, again the semi-finals. Before that Pereira was in the quarter- final against Ghana, the only failure contactors his team in penalty as the ball went over the crossbar. Thanks to Fernando Muslera, who saved two penalty kicks from Ghana, his team came anyway. By the resignation of his team in the semifinals of the tournament against the Netherlands, in which he recorded with the 2:3 his first international goal just before the end, he was in all the meetings in the starting lineup. Pereira also worked at the FIFA Confederations Cup 2013.

So far denied Pereira 88 internationals. He scored three goals. His last assignment provisionally dated March 5, 2014.

Achievements

In the club

  • SL Benfica Taça da Liga: 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012
  • Portuguese Cup: 2010

In the National Team

  • Copa América: 2011
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