Gustavo Munúa

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Gustavo Munúa
Personal information
Full name Gustavo Adolfo Munúa Vera
Date of birth January 27, 1978 (1978-01-27) (age 30)
Place of birth    Montevideo, Uruguay
Height 1.89 m (6 ft 2+1⁄2 in)
Playing position Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club Deportivo La Coruña
Number 13
Youth clubs
 ?–1997 Nacional
Senior clubs1
Years Club App (Gls)*
1997–2003
2003-		 Nacional
Deportivo La Coruña		  ? (1)
26 (0)   
National team2
1998- Uruguay 25 (0)

1 Senior club appearances and goals
counted for the domestic league only and
correct as of May 22, 2008.
2 National team caps and goals correct
as of June 6, 2004.
* Appearances (Goals)

Gustavo Adolfo Munúa Vera (born January 27, 1978 in Montevideo) is a Uruguayan football player who plays as a goalkeeper. He currently plays for Deportivo de La Coruña in the Spanish Liga de Fútbol Profesional.

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[edit] Career

He started his career in Club Nacional de Football, where he won the Uruguyan league titles of 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002. In Nacional, Munúa established the record of longest time without conceding a goal: 963 minutes. He also has the record of being the first goalkeeper to score a goal in Uruguayan football, when he made a fantastic free-kick to give Nacional the victory in a league match against Central Español. He also scored some goals from penalties, in the Uruguayan league and in Copa Libertadores.

Munúa left Nacional in 2003, joining La Liga club Deportivo de La Coruña, where he struggled to gain first-choice goalkeeper status: from 2003-2006, he was topped by Spanish international José Francisco Molina. From 2006 on, he faced stiff competition from Israel's Dudu Aouate.

In 2007-2008, in January 2008, after regaining first-choice from Aouate, both goalkeepers were involved in a post-training punching session that resulted in both being suspended for the match against Villarreal CF, as well as subsequent league games.[1]In February, due to B-team keeper Fabri's inexperience, both players were reinstated in the squad, although the Israeli regained his lost spot.

Munúa has been capped with the Uruguay national football team many times, participating in the FIFA World Cup 2002 in Korea and Japan and in the qualifying round for FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany.

[edit] Honors and awards

[edit] References

  1. ^ Aouate, Munúa suspended after fight

[edit] External links

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Uruguay squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
1 Carini • 2 Méndez • 3 Lembo • 4 Montero • 5 García • 6 Rodríguez • 7 Guigou • 8 Varela • 9 Silva • 10 O'Neill • 11 Magallanes • 12 Munúa • 13 Abreu • 14 Sorondo • 15 Olivera • 16 Romero • 17 Regueiro • 18 Morales • 19 Bizera • 20 Recoba • 21 Forlán • 22 De los Santos • 23 Elduayen • Coach: Púa
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Deportivo de La Coruña – current squad

1 Dudu • 2 Manuel Pablo • 3 Filipe • 4 Lopo • 5 Coloccini • 6 De Guzmán • 7 Bodipo • 8 Sergio • 9 Taborda • 10 Verdú • 11 Riki • 12 Adrián • 13 Munúa • 14 Wilhelmsson • 15 Rubén • 16 Tomás • 17 Lafita • 18 Guardado • 19 Barragán • 20 Cristian • 21 Valerón • 22 Juan Rodríguez • 23 Xisco • 24 Pablo Amo • 30 Fabricio • TBD Bravo • Manager: Lotina


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