Alejandro González (Uruguayan footballer)

This name uses Spanish naming customs: the first or paternal family name is González and the second or maternal family name is Hernández.
Alejandro González

González playing for Peñarol in 2012
Personal information
Full nameAlejandro Damián González Hernández
Date of birthMarch 23, 1988
Place of birthMontevideo, Uruguay
Height1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing positionDefender
Club information
Current team
Cagliari
Youth career
2005-2007Peñarol
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
2005–2008Peñarol17(0)
2008Tigres B?(?)
2008Tacuarembó10(0)
2009Sporting Cristal41(1)
2010–2013Peñarol22(0)
2013–Hellas Verona12(0)
Cagliari (loan)0(0)
National team
2007Uruguay U-204(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.
† Appearances (Goals).

Alejandro Damián González Hernández (born March 23, 1988 in Montevideo, Uruguay) is a Uruguayan footballer[1] who plays for Italian team Cagliari on loan from Hellas Verona. He has spent most of his career with Peñarol in his native Uruguay, as well as teams in Mexico and Peru.

Club career

González started his career in 2005 playing for Peñarol. In 2008 he was champion of the Uruguayan Torneo Clausura playing for Peñarol. He was than loaned out to Tigres B in Mexico, that same year he played for Tacuarembó F.C..

He joined Sporting Cristal in the Primera Division Peruana in January 2009.[2]

On 28 June 2013, he joined Hellas Verona, who had just returned to Serie A, for an undisclosed fee.[3]

On 8 January 2015 he was loaned to struggling fellow Serie A club Cagliari for the remainder of the season, the first signing by new manager Gianfranco Zola.[4]

International career

González played for Uruguay at the South American Under 17 Football Championship and the 2005 FIFA U-17 World Championship.[5]

In 2007 he played in the 2007 South American Youth Championship.

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