Sebastián Coates

Sebastián Coates at 2012 Olympics

Sebastián Coates Nion ( born October 7, 1990 in Montevideo) is an Uruguayan football player. He is since 2011 at Liverpool under contract and playing in 2014 on loan at Nacional Montevideo.

Club career

Sebastián Coates is the son of an English immigrant and began at the age of eleven years playing football at Nacional Montevideo. There he made ​​his debut in 2009 in the first team in the game against Bella Vista, was henceforth a regular player and could win División with his team immediately the Primera, where he contributed one goal in the first leg of the final against Defensor Sporting Club. In the same year Nacional moved into the semifinals of the Copa Libertadores, but failed there to eventual winners Estudiantes de La Plata from Argentina. In the following season won the Apertura Nacional, was defeated in the finals for the championship against CA Peñarol, however. 2010/11 hit Nacional after winning the Torneo in the finals again Defensor Sporting and sat down at the Estadio Centenario a goal by Tabaré Viudez 1-0.

On 30 August 2011 undertook manager Kenny Dalglish to the fans now Luganito in accordance with the national team captain Diego Lugano baptized Sebastián Coates of Liverpool. The cost of the transfer will focus as at least seven million pounds. 18 September 2011 Coates made ​​his debut in the Premier League against Tottenham Hotspur. In addition to various operations in the FA Cup, Capital One Cup and the Europa League, he can look back (one goal ) in the Premier League on twelve graduated encounters. On August 14, 2013, withdrew the friendly match against Uruguay Japan an injury to the anterior cruciate ligament of the right knee to, was operated in the sequence and thus falls out first. In January 2014, the loan still injured Coates to Uruguay was to Nacional Montevideo in the room. In March 2014 he performed at the Bolsos in the squad as a player. In the transfer, it should be a temporary until the middle of 2014 lending.

National team career

As of 2007, Sebastián Coates played for the U -17 Uruguay, in which he made ​​his debut on 11 February 2007, coach Roland Marcenaro in the game against Ecuador. He came in this age group to four international appearances. Coates was doing in the squad of Uruguay in the U-17 South American Championship soccer 2007 in Ecuador. Then he ran under coach Diego Aguirre on 19 December 2008 the first time in the match against Chile for the U -20. This selection team, he was third in the 2009 U-20 South American Championship in Venezuela. That same year, Coates moved the U -20 team to the knockout stages of the U-20 World Cup 2009 in Egypt, but it lost to Brazil. Total listed for the U-20 national team for Coates 14 games ( 1 goal).

On June 23, 2011 under coach Oscar Tabarez Coates made ​​his debut in a friendly against Estonia for Uruguay's national team. In the subsequent Copa América 2011, Sebastián Coates earned during the tournament a regular place and also played in the 3-0 final win against Paraguay over the full distance. Then Coates was named the best young player of the tournament. The him by some internet statistical databases as first goal ascribed to it in the senior national team of Uruguay Goal for temporary 1-0 lead in the 15th minutes of play in the qualifier for the 2014 World Cup against Peru (4-2 ) on June 10 of 2012, officially Luis Suárez. Until his most recent application on August 14, 2013 Coates graduated 13 matches without scoring personal. (Updated: August 22, 2013)

Coates was a member of the Uruguayan squad in the Olympic football tournament for the 2012 Olympics. In the Olympic selection Uruguay, he was five times used.

Achievements

Team

Personally

  • Best defender of the Uruguayan Primera División: 2010 and 2011
  • Best player of the Uruguayan Primera División: 2011
  • Best Young Player of the Copa América: 2011
Defender (association football) CA Bella Vista 2009 Copa Libertadores Daily Mail
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