| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Martín Andrés Silva Leites | ||
| Date of birth | March 25, 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Club information | |||
| Current club | Club Olimpia | ||
| Number | 1 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps† | (Gls)† |
| 2002–2011 | Defensor Sporting | 176 | (0) |
| 2011– | Club Olimpia | 10 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2001–2003 | Uruguay U-20 | 14 | (0) |
| 2009– | Uruguay | 1 | (0) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 6 February 2010. † Appearances (Goals). |
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Martín Andrés Silva Leites (born March 25, 1983) is a Uruguayan footballer. He currently plays as a goalkeeper for the Paraguayan Primera Division side Club Olimpia and the Uruguay national football team.
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Silva has played all of his professional career in Defensor Sporting, starting in 2002. In 2010, while playing with Defensor in Argentina for the Copa Sudamericana, the goalkeeper was attacked with a rock to the head, thrown by an Independiente fan.[1] Nonetheless, the game continued and Defensor was eliminated.
In August 2011, he signed a four-year contract with the Paraguayan club Olimpia.
Silva has appeared on Uruguay´s youth teams such us the Uruguay national under-17 football team and the Uruguay national under-20 football team during 2000 to 2002. He won his first international cap for Uruguay in a friendly match against Algeria, on August 12, 2009. He was included in the starting line-up of players for that match. Silva was also Uruguay's third choice goalkeeper in the 2010 FIFA World Cup and the 2011 Copa América.
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