 Pereira withUruguay in 2014 | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Álvaro Daniel Pereira Barragán | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1985-11-28)28 November 1985 (age 39) | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Wing-back | |||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2003–2004 | Miramar Misiones | 28 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2005–2007 | Quilmes | 33 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2007–2008 | Argentinos Juniors | 35 | (11) | |||||||||||
| 2008–2009 | CFR Cluj | 29 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2009–2012 | Porto | 72 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Inter Milan | 33 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2014 | →São Paulo (loan) | 32 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2015 | →Estudiantes (loan) | 24 | (2) | |||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | Estudiantes | 0 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2016 | →Getafe (loan) | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2016–2018 | →Cerro Porteño (loan) | 24 | (1) | |||||||||||
| 2019 | Nacional | 5 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2020 | River Plate Asunción | 3 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2020 | Sereď | 1 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2021 | Estudiantes Mérida | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||
| Total | 331 | (20) | ||||||||||||
| International career | ||||||||||||||
| 2008–2016 | Uruguay | 83 | (7) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | ||||||||||||||
Álvaro Daniel Pereira Barragán (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈalβaɾopeˈɾejɾa]; born 28 November 1985) is a Uruguayan former professionalfootballer. Mainly aleft-back, he could perform equally as aleft midfielder.
After starting out atMiramar Misiones he went on to play for a host of teams in several countries, mainlyPorto andInter Milan, winning eight major titles with the former club while appearing in 118 competitive matches (three goals).
AUruguay international since 2008, Pereira represented his country in twoWorld Cups and threeCopa Américas, earning 83caps and winning the2011 edition of the latter tournament.
Born inMontevideo, Pereira began his career withMiramar Misiones in 2003, moving to Argentina withQuilmes Atlético Club two years later. After the latter's relegation from thePrimera División at the end of the2006–07 season he joinedArgentinos Juniors, finishing as the team's top goalscorer in the2007 Apertura.[1]
In the middle of 2008, Pereira signed with Romania'sCFR Cluj for a€2.5 million fee. He started in all the club's matches in itsdebut campaign in theUEFA Champions League.
Pereira joinedFC Porto on 4 June 2009 for a reported €4.5 million,[2] with the Portuguese acquiring 80% of the player's rights. In hisfirst year he mostly operated as aleft-back, as the northerners finished third andwon theTaça de Portugal. He scored his first goal for the club on 21 February 2010, netting the second in a 5–1 home win overS.C. Braga.[3]
In Pereira'ssecond season at theEstádio do Dragão, he featured in 21Primeira Liga games (all starts), adding 12UEFA Europa League appearances as Porto wonthe treble. He also started inthat campaign'sPortuguese Cup final againstVitória de Guimarães on 22 May 2011, scoring anown goal in the 21st minute to bring the sides level in an eventual 6–2 victory.[4]
After Porto rejected an offer fromPremier League sideChelsea in the summer for Pereira, he signed a new contract on 3 October 2011 running until 2016, with his release clause remaining at£25.7 million.[5] In late December, he heavily criticisedManchester United'sPatrice Evra for reporting alleged racist abuse from Pereira's national team colleagueLuis Suárez – including a claim from Evra that Suárez "doesn't speak to black players" – saying that "what happens on the pitch stays on the pitch", adding that the Frenchman would have to "wear body armour" if the players' future internationalfriendly was to take place immediately instead of in late 2012.[6][7]
Pereira signed forInter Milan in late August 2012 for €10 million on a four-year contract,[8][9] reuniting with former Porto teammateFredy Guarín.[10][11] He made hisSerie A debut on 2 September in a 1–3 home loss againstA.S. Roma, and finished hisfirst season with 40 appearances in all competitions, scoring his only goal in a 2–0 league victory atA.C. ChievoVerona.[12]
On 17 January 2014,São Paulo FC signed Pereira on loan for one and a half years, with an option to make the move permanent.[13][14] He played his first match with his new club nine days later, a 2–1 win againstOeste Futebol Clube forthat year'sCampeonato Paulista, assistingAntônio Carlos in the second goal; after the match, he stated he "...liked the team's intensity", further adding he still needed to "...improve a lot."[15]
In January 2015, Pereira returned to Argentina to joinEstudiantes de La Plata in a temporary deal, with an obligation to sign for €2.752 million.[16][17] He appeared in 36 matches across all competitions inhis first year, scoring three goals – including one in a1–1 draw withSan Martín de San Juan in theCopa Argentina that ended in apenalty shoot-out victory.[18] However, in his last appearance, an exhibition game against neighbouringClub de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata which eventually turned into a massive brawl, he assaulted opponent Facundo Oreja with a kick to the face which saw himsent off;[19] he was eventually handed an eight-match ban,[20] which he served at his following clubGetafe CF, where he arrived in February 2016 on loan until June.[21][22]
Pereira played his first match for the Spaniards on 1 March 2016, being ejected after two bookable offences midway through the second half of a 4–0 defeat atUD Las Palmas.[23]
On 3 July 2016, Pereira signed a one-year loan contract withCerro Porteño of theParaguayan Primera División.[24] During his spell inBarrio Obrero, he dealt with several injury problems.[25]
Pereira returned to his country's and itsPrimera División in late January 2019, with the 33-year-old joiningClub Nacional de Football still on loan from Estudiantes.[26] On his debut on 4 February, he was sent off for a secondyellow card at the end ofextra time as the clubwon theSupercopa Uruguaya on penalties against rivalsPeñarol.[27]
Having played only eight competitive games during his tenure, Pereira became afree agent and returned to Paraguay, signing forClub River Plate (Asunción) in January 2020.[28] On 7 October that year he came back to Europe, by joiningŠKF Sereď in theSlovak Super Liga.[29] He only totalled seven minutes againstFC ViOn Zlaté Moravce before contractingCOVID-19, and left shortly after.[30]
Pereira made his debut forUruguay againstFrance, on 19 November 2008.[31] He scored his first international goal in his next match, anotherfriendly, withLibya inTripoli (3–2 win).[32]
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Pereira was an undisputed starter for the nation during the second half of the2010 FIFA World Cupqualifiers, also starting in both legs of the successful playoffs againstCosta Rica as theCharrúas returned to theFIFA World Cup. In the finals in South Africa he played all the matches except two, scoring through a rare header in a 3–0 group stage victory overthe hosts.[33]
Pereira was selected to the2011 Copa América in Argentina, being first-choice and scoring two goals in the group stage, including the game's only againstMexico[34] as Uruguay won its 15th continental tournament.[35] In 2013, he representedLa Celeste at the2013 FIFA Confederations Cup as the nation reached the semi-finals, and also participated in the team's successfulWorld Cup qualifying campaign.[1]
On 2 June 2014, Pereira was named in Uruguay's squad for the2014 World Cup finals.[36] On 19 June, in the second group game againstEngland, he was struck unconscious after being kneed in the head byRaheem Sterling, but refused to bereplaced after recovering[37] and went on to feature the full 90 minutes in the 2–1 win.[38]
At the2015 Copa América in Chile, Pereira was suspended for the quarter-final againstthe hosts, and his team lost by a single goal.[39] The following year, atthe next edition in the United States, he only played the first group game, in which he scored anown goal in a 3–1 loss toMexico.[40]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | League Cup | Continental | Other[a] | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Miramar | 2004 | 12 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 12 | 0 | ||||
| 2005 | 16 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 16 | 1 | |||||
| Total | 28 | 1 | — | — | — | — | 28 | 1 | |||||
| Quilmes | 2005–06 | 5 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 2006–07 | 28 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 28 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 33 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 33 | 0 | |||||
| Argentinos Juniors | 2007–08 | 35 | 11 | — | — | — | — | 35 | 11 | ||||
| CFR Cluj | 2008–09 | 29 | 1 | 2 | 1 | — | 6 | 0 | — | 37 | 2 | ||
| Porto | 2009–10 | 28 | 1 | 5 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 8 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 46 | 1 |
| 2010–11 | 21 | 0 | 3 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 14 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 39 | 1 | |
| 2011–12 | 23 | 1 | 1 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 7 | 0 | — | 34 | 1 | ||
| Total | 72 | 2 | 9 | 1 | 7 | 0 | 29 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 119 | 3 | |
| Inter Milan | 2012–13 | 28 | 1 | 3 | 0 | — | 9 | 0 | — | 40 | 1 | ||
| 2013–14 | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 7 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 33 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | 9 | 0 | — | 47 | 1 | |||
| São Paulo (loan) | 2014 | 21 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 7 | 0 | 11 | 1 | 45 | 1 | |
| Estudiantes | 2015 | 24 | 2 | 2 | 1 | — | 10 | 0 | — | 36 | 3 | ||
| Getafe (loan) | 2015–16 | 6 | 0 | — | — | — | — | 6 | 0 | ||||
| Cerro Porteño | 2016 | 15 | 1 | — | — | 10 | 2 | — | 25 | 3 | |||
| 2017 | 5 | 0 | — | — | 1 | 0 | — | 6 | 0 | ||||
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 20 | 1 | — | — | 11 | 2 | — | 31 | 3 | ||||
| Career Total | 301 | 19 | 24 | 3 | 7 | 0 | 72 | 2 | 13 | 1 | 417 | 25 | |
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Uruguay[43] | 2008 | 1 | 0 |
| 2009 | 12 | 1 | |
| 2010 | 11 | 2 | |
| 2011 | 13 | 2 | |
| 2012 | 8 | 0 | |
| 2013 | 9 | 0 | |
| 2014 | 11 | 1 | |
| 2015 | 11 | 2 | |
| 2016 | 7 | 0 | |
| Total | 83 | 7 | |
| # | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition[43] |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 11 February 2009 | June 11,Tripoli, Libya |  Libya | 2–3 | 2–3 | Friendly |
| 2. | 27 May 2010 | Centenario,Montevideo, Uruguay |  Israel | 2–1 | 4–1 | Friendly |
| 3. | 16 June 2010 | Loftus Versfeld,Pretoria, South Africa |  South Africa | 0–3 | 0–3 | 2010 FIFA World Cup |
| 4. | 9 July 2011 | Malvinas Argentinas,Mendoza, Argentina |  Chile | 1–0 | 1–1 | 2011 Copa América |
| 5. | 12 July 2011 | Ciudad de La Plata,La Plata, Argentina |  Mexico | 1–0 | 1–0 | 2011 Copa América |
| 6. | 5 March 2014 | Wörthersee,Klagenfurt, Austria |  Austria | 1–1 | 1–1 | Friendly |
| 7. | 17 November 2015 | Centenario, Montevideo, Uruguay | Chile | 2–0 | 3–0 | 2018 World Cup qualification |
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