Gabriel Correa

Gabriel Correa
Personal information
Full name Carlos Gabriel Correa Viana
Date of birth (1968-01-13) 13 January 1968
Place of birth Montevideo, Uruguay
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Midfielder
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
1982–1988 River Plate (URU)
1989 Peñarol
1990–1993 Murcia 55 (2)
1993–1994 Valladolid 20 (0)
1994–1998 Mérida 118 (7)
1998–1999 Sevilla 20 (0)
2000–2001 Hércules 9 (0)
National team
1988–1990 Uruguay 19 (2)
Teams managed
2005–2006 Murcia (assistant)
2006 Murcia
2006–2007 Mar Menor
2007–2008 Caravaca
2008 Lorca Deportiva

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.

† Appearances (goals)
This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is Correa and the second or maternal family name is Viana.

Carlos Gabriel Correa Viana (born 13 January 1968) is an Uruguayan retired footballer, and a current coach.

A defensive midfielder, most of his professional career was spent in Spain where he played for five teams – amassing La Liga totals of 76 games and four goals and 137/5 in Segunda División – subsequently coaching in its lower leagues.

Club career

Born in the country's capital, Montevideo, Correa played six years with local River Plate (URU), moving in 1989 for another side in the city, national powerhouse C.A. Peñarol.

After just one season he moved abroad, joining Spain's Real Murcia in the country's second division, and dropping down to the third level in his second year due to irregularities.

In 1993 Correa moved straight into La Liga with Real Valladolid, his competition debut coming on 5 September in a 0–1 home loss against Sporting de Gijón. In the following four years, he would bounce back and forth between divisions one and two with CP Mérida.

Correa signed with Sevilla FC in the 1998 summer, at the age of 30. In August of the following year he suffered a serious Achilles tendon injury which would put him out of action for more than one year, after which he made a brief comeback with his fifth club in Spain, Hércules CF (third division), retiring shortly after.

In 2005 Correa started his coaching career, first with the youth sides then as assistant to former club Murcia. He coached the team for exactly one game in the 2005–06 season before it appointed Sergije Krešić, with the Uruguayan returning to the youth levels.

For the next three years Correa managed in the lower leagues of Spain, being fired from Lorca Deportiva CF in mid-October 2008.

International career

Correa made 19 appearances for Uruguay during two years, representing the nation at the 1990 FIFA World Cup (one match)[1] and the 1989 Copa América. His debut came on 2 November 1988 in a friendly with Chile; he was sent off in the 1–1 draw at Concepción.

References

  1. ↑ Gabriel Correa – FIFA competition record

External links

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