Richard Morales

Richard Javier Morales Aguirre ( born February 21, 1975 in Las Piedras ), nicknamed El Chengue, is a former Uruguayan football player. He played on the position of the striker.

Club career

The depending on the source position 1.95 meters, 1.96 meters or 1.98 meters wide, Chengue called Morales is the fifth -born child of the employees employed in a sawmill, carpenter Conrado and his wife Gladys. He has two brothers and three sisters. The financial situation of the family often related that the parents did not have the money to buy the in his hometown of Las Piedras grown Morales football shoes or to finance the trips that would have been incurred in connection with a club membership in the baby fútbol. He began at the age of six years with the baby fútbol club in La Llama in Las Piedras. By his own account he was playing as a central midfielder. For the last year in the baby fútbol he moved to Nacional. Since the fare was not applied, then again he played in Las Piedras. After two years of absence, he joined Bella Vista, as soon as he was old enough to play in the División Quinta. At Bella Vista, he went through the teams in the Tercera División and the Cuarta. There also held the midfield position, but he was also at left-back for use. However, since he soon was again unable to pay the fare ticket to Montevideo, he moved to the playing in the League Regional del Sur Workers Club Los ceibos, who was resident in its Barrio. In Los ceibos he now ran on as a striker and also came first in the first team for the course. Finally, he found his way led to Progreso. Until then, Morales worked before starting his career in construction for a year in a Frigorífico and a so-called Cuidacoches, a kind of security guards, in a cemetery. There was a station at Platense in the Divisional C. At that time he was unemployed at Platense but he was offered the possibility of morning vier clock to work until noon and to train in the evening. Trainer San Pedro mediated a job in Mercado Modelo. In Platense he scored claims to twelve or 13 goals for the club and was then discovered by Humberto Schiavone, who signed him for the Club Atlético Basáñez. There he stood in his own words a year according to other sources from 1997 to 1998, in the squad and scored 14 goals. 1999-2002 was his employer Nacional Montevideo, the Uruguayan championship three consecutive times won in this period ( 2000, 2001 and 2002). Early January 2003 then he moved to Spain to CA Osasuna, where he signed a contract until 30 June 2007. There he played until 2005, ran in 50 league games, scoring eleven goals and reached with his team in his last season, the final of the Copa del Rey 2004/ 05, before the league rivals FC Málaga joined. Shortly before the completed change to the club from Málaga was a transfer fee of 1.5 million euros in space, where his former club Nacional should be involved in the transfer proceeds for the signing of a three year contract. In Malaga he got into that season from the Primera División, and then stayed for another season. For Malaga, he played 39 league games and scored three goals. Overall, Morales was during his time in Spain far behind the high expectations placed in him and could not convince. Then he returned to Montevideo. There he stood in the Apertura 2007 back in the squad Nacional's, where he remained until the Apertura 2008. In the season 2007/ 08 he scored eight goals in 25 league operations. In early September 2008, he left Uruguay on loan to Brazil. There he took on a commitment to end at Gremio. The following year, is listed as a future career station from mid-February, the Ecuadorian club Liga de Quito. Coach Jorge Fossati and compatriot proposed by Morales commitment to close the gap left by the breach of Chileans Reinaldo Navia. However, he joined already in July 2009 in his home at Fénix. His career then ended yet. While he was out of contract, but still kicking for the team of the Mutual Uruguaya de Futbolers Profesionales, hoping at least the end of 2010 still on offer. At that time he also opened one located somewhere in Las Piedras place called Botineras Disco Pub.

National

For Uruguay, he graduated from his debut on 13 July 2001 until his last mission on 16 November 2005 27 international matches, where he met a total of six times. He was part of the Uruguayan contingent as in the Copa América in 2001 and 2004. Through his two goals in the 3-0 win in Uruguay in the qualifying match against Australia, he was instrumental in the qualification of his home country for the 2002 World Cup, where he also took part.

Achievements

• 3x Uruguayan champion (2000, 2001, 2002 )

Others

Having already accused due to events in the Clásico on 26 November 2000 at Estadio Centenario and - in addition to the Nacional players Mario Regueiro and Marco Vanzini, the Peñarol actors Marcelo De Souza, Enrique De los Santos, Federico Elduayen, Martín García, Darío Rodríguez and Fabián Cesaro and their coach Julio Ribas - eleven days had been ( along with a penalty imposed by the association block for five games) sentenced to a ten-day jail sentence and, according to the player, he fell into a similar thing a little later on again. After a brawl involving 14 people in Oz café in Las Piedras, where he broke his opponent 's nose, he stood in 2001, in a further process at the center. There, a prison sentence was the subject of the indictment.