Sito Riera

Sito Riera
Personal information
Full name Llorenç Riera Ortega
Date of birth (1987-01-05) 5 January 1987
Place of birth Manacor, Spain
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position Forward
Youth career
Barcelona
Senior career*
Years Team Apps† (Gls)†
2005–2006 Barcelona C 5 (0)
2005–2007 Barcelona B 64 (16)
2007–2008 Espanyol B 29 (0)
2008–2009 Espanyol 0 (0)
2008–2009 → Panthrakikos (loan) 28 (5)
2009–2011 Panionios 49 (7)
2012–2014 Chornomorets 37 (3)
2014–2016 Kairat 41 (4)

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 2 April 2016.

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

Llorenç "Sito" Riera Ortega (born 5 January 1987) is a Spanish footballer who last played for Kazakhstani club FC Kairat as a forward.

Football career

Born in Manacor, Balearic Islands, Riera represented both major clubs in Barcelona, FC Barcelona and RCD Espanyol, but never made it past its B-sides. In the 2007–08 season he suffered relegation from the third division with the latter, not managing to find the net in the process.

On 8 July 2009, after a loan experience with Panthrakikos FC,[1] Riera signed with fellow Superleague Greece team Panionios FC. On 14 December 2011, player and club mutually rescinded the contract.[2]

At the start of March 2014, Riera left FC Chornomorets Odesa – which he represented for one and a half seasons, earning a late red card in his last game for the team, a 1–0 away win against PSV Eindhoven for the UEFA Europa League group stage[3]– due to the civil unrest caused by the 2014 Ukrainian revolution.[4] On 23 June of that year he moved to Kazakhstan, signing a three-and-a-half-year contract with FC Kairat.[5] On 1 April 2016, Riera left FC Kairat.[6]

Personal life

Riera's older brother, Albert, is also a footballer. A winger, he represented, amongst others, Espanyol, Liverpool and the Spanish national team.[7]

Honours

Kairat

References

  1. ↑ Mercado fichajes – Pretemporada 2008/2009 (Transfer market – Preseason 2008/2009); Webesport (Spanish)
  2. ↑ Λύση συνεργασίας με Σίτο Ριέρα (Riera and Panionios part ways); Panionios' official website, 14 December 2011 (Greek)
  3. ↑ "Dja Djedje has PSV heading for the exit". UEFA.com. 12 December 2013. Retrieved 11 July 2014.
  4. ↑ "Five foreign players leave Football Club Chornomorets because of situation in Ukraine". Kyiv Post. 4 March 2014. Retrieved 8 April 2014.
  5. ↑ Риера, Жерар, Исаэль и Куат стали игроками «Кайрата» (in Russian). FC Kairat. 23 June 2014. Retrieved 24 June 2014.
  6. ↑ "Риера – вне заявки". fckairat.kz (in Russian). FC Kairat. 1 April 2016. Retrieved 2 April 2016.
  7. ↑ Sito Riera: “Me gustaría jugar en el Mallorca” (Sito Riera: “I would like to play with Mallorca”); Fútbol Balear, 11 August 2010 (Spanish)

External links

This article is issued from Wikipedia - version of the Sunday, April 10, 2016. The text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution/Share Alike but additional terms may apply for the media files.