 Urretaviscaya lining up forUruguay in 2017 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Jonathan Matías Urretaviscaya da Luz[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (1990-03-19)19 March 1990 (age 35)[1] | ||
| Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Winger | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Montevideo Wanderers | ||
| Number | 80 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| River Plate (UY) | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007–2008 | River Plate (UY) | 14 | (8) |
| 2008–2014 | Benfica | 15 | (2) |
| 2010 | →Peñarol (loan) | 17 | (4) |
| 2010 | →Deportivo La Coruña (loan) | 6 | (0) |
| 2011 | →Peñarol (loan) | 8 | (3) |
| 2011–2012 | →Vitória Guimarães (loan) | 13 | (2) |
| 2013–2014 | Benfica B | 27 | (4) |
| 2014–2015 | Paços Ferreira | 14 | (5) |
| 2015 | →Peñarol (loan) | 14 | (7) |
| 2015–2017 | Pachuca | 78 | (13) |
| 2018–2020 | Monterrey | 24 | (1) |
| 2020 | →Peñarol (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | Peñarol | 10 | (1) |
| 2021 | Rentistas | 26 | (3) |
| 2022 | River Plate (UY) | 32 | (1) |
| 2023 | Boston River | 17 | (0) |
| 2023–2024 | Racing Montevideo | 46 | (2) |
| 2025 | Juventud | 33 | (2) |
| 2026– | Montevideo Wanderers | 0 | (0) |
| International career | |||
| 2005 | Uruguay U15 | 2 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | Uruguay U17 | 9 | (5) |
| 2007–2009 | Uruguay U20 | 17 | (8) |
| 2012 | Uruguay Olympic | 4 | (0) |
| 2017–2018 | Uruguay | 6 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 17:49, 8 December 2025 (UTC) | |||
Jonathan Matías Urretaviscaya da Luz (born 19 March 1990) is a Uruguayan professionalfootballer who plays as aright winger forMontevideo Wanderers.
He spent most of his career in his homeland – with five stints atPeñarol – and in Mexico, where he won theCONCACAF Champions League withPachuca andMonterrey. In Europe, he had a brief spell atDeportivo de La Coruña inLa Liga and played for three teams in Portugal'sPrimeira Liga, includingBenfica.
Urretaviscaya earned sixcaps forUruguay, competing at the2018 World Cup.
Born inMontevideo to a father ofBasque descent,[2] Urretaviscaya started off his career with hometown'sClub Atlético River Plate. HisPrimera División debut came one month shy of his 18th birthday as he scored in a 2–0 win againstLiverpool Montevideo in theClausura's first game, and he eventually netted nine goals overall for therunners-up.[3]
Urretaviscaya signed a contract with Portuguese clubS.L. Benfica on 2 July 2008, for a fee of €1.5 million.[4] Rarely used in hisdebut season,[5] he scored once to conclude a 3–1 away victory overS.C. Braga on the final day, asQuique Sánchez Flores' men came third.[6]
In January 2010, after having made almost no official appearances duringthe campaign – his onlyPrimeira Liga game was againstFC Porto as his team had many players missing due to injuries and suspensions, and he put up a good performance in a 1–0 home win for the eventual champions[7]– Urretaviscaya was loaned toPeñarol for five months, thus returning to his country.[8] In late June, he moved on the same basis toDeportivo de La Coruña forone season.[9]
In the February 2011transfer window, Urretaviscaya returned to Peñarol on loan.[10] For2011–12, he transferred temporarily toVitória S.C. while also renewing his contract until 2015.[11][12] He went on to miss most of the campaign due to injury.[13][14][15]
Subsequently, returned to theEstádio da Luz, Urretaviscaya spent the better part of the following two seasons with theB team.[16][17][18] On 1 September 2014 he terminated his contract with Benfica and penned a one-year deal withF.C. Paços de Ferreira.[19] He re-joined Peñarol for a third spell on 23 January 2015, after signing for six months.[20]
Urretaviscaya was on the move again in June 2015, joiningC.F. Pachuca in the MexicanLiga MX.[21][22] His side won theClausura in hisfirst season, in which he lined up with compatriotDiego Alonso,[23] and scored five goals including two on 16 May 2016 in a 3–2 quarter-final home defeat ofSantos Laguna.[24] After winning theCONCACAF Champions League in2016–17, he took part atthe year'sFIFA Club World Cup in Qatar, where he netted in a 4–1 win overAl Jazira Club for third place.[25]
After a spell atC.F. Monterrey, where he was againcontinental champion andworld third-place in 2019, Urretaviscaya agreed to a fourth loan spell at Peñarol at the start of the following year; he wasDiego Forlán's first signing. In February, he suffered ananterior cruciate ligament injury in afriendly in the United States, having had the same fate in his other leg in September 2018. His recovery took six months, during which Uruguayan football was halted due to theCOVID-19 pandemic.[26]
Released by Monterrey, Urretaviscaya signed for a fifth time at Peñarol in July 2020, his first permanent contract with the club.[26] The following April, with his deal having finished, he joinedC.A. Rentistas.[27]
Urretaviscaya remained in his country's top flight subsequently, atBoston River andRacing Club de Montevideo.[28]
Urretaviscaya was part of theUruguayan squad thatcompeted in the2012 Summer Olympics, held inLondon.[29] He earned his firstcap for thefull side on 28 March 2017: after having come on as a second-halfsubstitute forCarlos Sánchez, he received twoyellow cards in 11 minutes and was thussent off, in a 2–1 away loss toPeru for the2018 FIFA World Cupqualifiers.[30][31]
On 2 June 2018, Urretaviscaya was selected for the finals in Russia by managerÓscar Tabárez.[32] He made his debut inthe competition on 6 July, playing 17 minutes in the 2–0 quarter-final defeat againstFrance after replacingNahitan Nández.[33]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Other[a] | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| River Plate (UY) | 2007–08 | 14 | 8 | — | — | — | — | 14 | 8 | ||||
| Benfica | 2008–09 | 10 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | — | 17 | 1 | |
| 2009–10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2011–12 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 2012–13 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 8 | 1 | ||
| Total | 15 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 2 | |
| Peñarol (loan) | 2009–10 | 14 | 4 | — | — | — | — | 14 | 4 | ||||
| Deportivo (loan) | 2010–11 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 6 | 0 | |||
| Peñarol (loan) | 2010–11 | 8 | 3 | — | — | 5 | 0 | — | 13 | 3 | |||
| Vitória Guimarães (loan) | 2011–12 | 13 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 14 | 2 | ||
| Benfica B | 2012–13 | 4 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 4 | 2 | ||||
| 2013–14 | 23 | 2 | — | — | — | — | 23 | 2 | |||||
| Total | 27 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 27 | 4 | |
| Paços Ferreira | 2014–15 | 14 | 5 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 16 | 5 | ||
| Peñarol (loan) | 2014–15 | 14 | 7 | — | — | — | — | 14 | 7 | ||||
| Pachuca | 2015–16 | 29 | 5 | 7 | 2 | — | — | — | 36 | 7 | |||
| 2016–17 | 35 | 7 | 0 | 0 | — | 9 | 3 | — | 44 | 10 | |||
| 2017–18 | 14 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 3 | 1 | 20 | 2 | |||
| Total | 78 | 13 | 10 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 100 | 19 | |
| Monterrey | 2017–18 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Career total | 203 | 45 | 15 | 2 | 3 | 0 | 21 | 3 | 3 | 1 | 245 | 51 | |
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uruguay | 2017 | 4 | 0 |
| 2018 | 2 | 0 | |
| Total | 6 | 0 | |
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