Gastón Esmerado

Gastón Rubén Esmerado (born 8 February 1978 in Lomas de Zamora) is a retired Argentine footballer and current manager of Club Almagro.

Gastón Esmerado

Personal information
Full name	Gastón Rubén Esmerado
Date of birth	(1978-02-08) February 8, 1978
Place of birth	Lomas de Zamora, Argentina
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team	Almagro (Manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1996–1997	Lanús	3	(0)
1997–1998	Olimpo	43	(1)
1999–2005	Arsenal de Sarandí	224	(15)
2006	Estudiantes	11	(0)
2006–2007	Colón	31	(5)
2007–2008	Skoda Xanthi	5	(0)
2008–2010	Huracán	55	(3)
2010–2015	Arsenal de Sarandi	42	(1)
Managerial career
2016–2017	Guillermo Brown
2017–2018	Temperley
2019	Almagro
2019	Nueva Chicago
2019–	Almagro
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Career

Esmerado, nicknamed "Gato" started his playing career in 1996 with Club Atlético Lanús, he only played 3 games in the Argentine Primera before stepping down a division to play for Olimpo de Bahía Blanca in the Primera B Nacional.

In 1999, he joined Arsenal de Sarandí where he was part of the team that won promotion to the Primera for the first time in their history in 2002, he played for the club until 2005. he played 224 times for Arsenal scoring 15 goals, 119 of his appearances for the club came in the Argentine Primera.

In 2006, he joined Estudiantes de La Plata but soon moved on to join Colón de Santa Fe where he played until the end of 2007. in 2008 he had a brief spell with Greek side Skoda Xanthi before returning to Argentina to play for Club Atlético Huracán.

Honours

Arsenal

• Argentine Primera División: 2012 Clausura

References

• Gastón Esmerado marcó de penal y fue sustituido en su retiro como profesional‚ infobae.com, 2 November 2015

External links

• Sports Ya profile (in Spanish)
• Gastón Esmerado – Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (in Spanish)
• Gastón Esmerado at Soccerway