Gastón Fernández

Gastón Fernández

Personal information
Full name	Gastón Nicolás Fernández
Date of birth	October 12, 1983 (1983-10-12)
Place of birth	Lanús, Argentina
Height	1.70 m (5 ft 7 in)
Playing position	Second striker
Club information
Current club	Estudiantes LP
Number	10
Youth career
	River Plate
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002–2003	River Plate	8	(1)
2003–2004	→ Racing Club (loan)	25	(7)
2004–2005	River Plate	43	(5)
2006	→ Monterrey CF (loan)	30	(8)
2007	San Lorenzo	30	(11)
2008–2010	Tigres de la UANL	23	(11)
2008–2009	→ Estudiantes LP (loan)	25	(3)
2010–	Estudiantes LP	39	(15)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 13:53, 29 July 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals).

Gastón Nicolás Fernández (born October 12, 1983) is an Argentine footballer plays for Estudiantes de La Plata.

Club career

Nicknamed La Gata (in English: "The Cat"), Fernández began his professional career with River Plate. After a stint with Racing and another season back with River, in 2006 he was loaned to Monterrey. When the contract was finished, Monterrey declined to pay the nearly two million dollars to permanently buy Gastón, thus prompting him to return to River Plate in December 2006.

However, Daniel Passarella, then River's head coach, believed the team had enough strikers. Fernández was therefore sold to San Lorenzo de Almagro. In San Lorenzo La Gata revindictated his career. He was the leading scorer of the team that won the 2007 Clausura championship. He then spent one year in Mexico with Tigres de la UANL.

In 2008, Fernández returned to Argentina to play for Estudiantes de La Plata, where he finished as runner up with the team in the 2008 Copa Sudamericana. He was then a first team regular in the team that won the 2009 Copa Libertadores, where he scored the equalising goal in the second leg of the final against Cruzeiro. Subsequently, he went back to Tigres, where he helped win the 2009 SuperLiga title against Chicago Fire. In January 2010, Tigres released the Argentine winger upon his request, and Fernández returned to Estudiantes.

International career

Gastón Fernández has played for several Argentina's youth teams.

Honours

River Plate

• Argentine Primera División (1): 2003 Clausura

San Lorenzo

• Argentine Primera División (1): 2007 Clausura

Tigres

• North American SuperLiga (1): 2009

Estudiantes

• Copa Libertadores (1): 2009
• Argentine Primera División (1): 2010 Apertura

External links

• Statistics at Guardian Stats Centre
• Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (Spanish)