Gustavo Grondona

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Gustavo Grondona
Full name	Gustavo Héctor Grondona Maio
Date of birth	June 16, 1968 (1968-06-16) (age 39)
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.74 m (5 ft 8+¹⁄₂ in)
Playing position	midfielder
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1989-1990 1991-1992 1992-1993 1995-1998 1998-2001 2001 2002-2003	Arsenal de Sarandí Independiente Huracán Deportivo Español Universitario de Deportes Sporting Cristal Arsenal de Sarandí	- 19 (3) 11 (0) 66 (8) - - 30 (3)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of July 2007. * Appearances (Goals)

Gustavo Grondona (born June 16, 1968 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football midfielder.

Gustavo Grondona is the son of long serving Argentine Football Association president Julio Humberto Grondona. He made his playing debut in 1989 for the club founded by his father; Arsenal de Sarandí.

Unlike his father Gustavo managed to step up to play at the highest level, appearing in the Argentine Primera for Independiente, Huracán and Deportivo Español in the 1990s.

In 1998 he joined Peruvian club Universitario de Deportes where he was part of three championship winning squads between 1998 and 2000.

After a short spell with Sporting Cristal in 2001, he returned to Argentina to play out his career with Arsenal during their first ever season in the Argentine Primera.