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Diego Rubio
Personal information
Full name Diego Iván Rubio Köstner
Date of birth (1993-05-15) 15 May 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth Santiago, Chile
Height 1.79 m (5 ft 10+12 in)
Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
Sandnes Ulf
Number 11
Youth career
2005–2007 Universidad Católica
2007–2010 Colo-Colo
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2011 Colo-Colo 8 (3)
2011–2012 Sporting 11 (1)
2012–2013 Sporting B 25 (8)
2013Pandurii Târgu Jiu (loan) 4 (0)
2014Sandnes Ulf (loan) 0 (0)
International career
2012 Chile U20 8 (1)
2011– Chile 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 3 March 2014

Diego Iván Rubio Köstner (born 15 May 1993) is a Chilean football player who plays as a striker for Sandnes Ulf.

Club career

Early career

Rubio began his football career with Universidad Católica. However, when he was 14, he took the decision to move to his favorite team Colo-Colo. After one year in the bench with Colo-Colo, in the next season Diego was consecrated in the youth team. After many seasons in the youth ranks, he was promoted to the first professional team in January 2011.

Colo-Colo

Rubio made his professional debut for Colo-Colo in a pre-season friendly against Deportes La Serena as a starter. In other pre-season game, Diego scored his first unofficial goals for the club, in a 3–1 won against Unión Española, in where he scored two goals for his team, being named the man of the match.

His Chilean Primera División came on 14 February 2011 against Unión San Felipe, as an 84th-minute substitution in a 2–0 away defeat. In a Copa Libertadores game played against Santos in Brazil, he scored his first professional goal, but the match finished in a 3–2 loss. On 19 April, Rubio scored his first two goals in the Primera División against La Serena, at 30th and 62nd minute, being named the man of match, in a 4–1 home win. He finally was consecrated in the club in an international game for the Libertadores against Táchira, Rubio gave the 2–1 victory to the club, scoring the two goals of Colo-Colo, after an early goal of Edgar Pérez Greco at 4th minute. After his club's performances, was rumored that Udinese are interested in Rubio.

He played his first derby game against his former youth club Universidad Católica, participating in the equalizer goal of Colo-Colo giving an assistance to Ezequiel Miralles at 81st minute, putting the 1–1 draw. The coach Américo Gallego nominated to Rubio for play the major derby of the Chilean football against Universidad de Chile, however, he only playing 30 minutes in a 2–1 loss.

Sporting CP

On 5 July 2011, Rubio joined Portuguese giants Sporting Clube de Portugal for €1.5M, signing a five-year contract with a €30M minimum fee release clause.

Pandurii

On September 2, 2013, Liga I club Pandurii Târgu Jiu confirmed Rubio was signed on a loan from Sporting, with an option to buy.[1] He debuted in Liga I in the match against Dinamo Bucharest, won by Pandurii with 2-1.

International career

On 31 May 2011, Rubio was called up by Chilean national team manager Claudio Borghi to take part in the 28-man pre-list preparatory process for the upcoming 2011 Copa America.[2] He officially debuted with Chile national team on 23 June 2011, in a match against Paraguay, the last match of Chile before the Copa América.

Personal life

Diego is the son of Hugo Rubio. Currently working at the Passball company as a football agent, Hugo was a successful football player, having spent most of his extensive career in his country with a short spell in European football, specifically in Italy and Switzerland. Hugo also was a member of the Chile squad at the Copa América of 1987 and 1991. Diego has two footballer brothers, Eduardo, currently playing in Lota Schwager, and Matías, who plays for Unión La Calera. Diego Rubio is also godchild of the Chilean football legend Iván Zamorano.[3]

On 15 May 2011, was reported that Rubio was on a list of most popular Chilean players on Twitter with 1,247 fans, in the 12th place of 14 players. The list was led by Jorge Valdivia, in the 1st place with more of 50,000 fans.[4]

References

  1. ^ "TRANSFER / Marin Condescu: "Diego Rubio va fi împrumutat dar avem opţiune de a-l cumpăra!"" (in Romanian). pandurii-tg-jiu.ro. 2 September 2013.
  2. ^ "Diego Rubio fue nominado a la Selección Chilena"
  3. ^ "Blog del diario As destaca a Diego Rubio: "Puede dar mucho que hablar"". La Tercera.com. La Tercera. 27 April 2011.
  4. ^ "Diego Rubio se une a los futbolistas chilenos con más seguidores en twitter". La Tercera. 15 April 2011.

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