Iván Moreno y Fabianesi

Iván Moreno y Fabianesi
Personal information
Full name	Iván Diego Moreno y Fabianesi
Date of birth	4 June 1979 (age 45)
Place of birth	Badajoz, Spain
Height	1.75 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1998–2001	Rosario Central
2001–2002	Villarreal
2002	Porto
2002–2003	Banfield
2003–2005	Colón
2006	Morelia
2006–2007	Vélez Sársfield
2007–2008	Estudiantes La Plata
2009	Rosario Central
2009–2010	Skoda Xanthi
2010–2013	Colón
2014	Liverpool Montevideo
2014–2015	Huracán
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 4 May 2015

Iván Moreno y Fabianesi (born 4 June 1979) is a Spanish-Argentine retired footballer.

Early life

He was born in Badajoz, Spain, the third child of a Spanish father, Ignacio Pedro Moreno Carballo (a professional footballer), and an Argentine mother.^[1] As a child, Moreno lived in Spain and Argentina following his parents' multiple relocations.

Playing career

Moreno y Fabianesi made his professional debut for Rosario Central on 18 October 1998 in a 1–1 away draw against Independiente. During his stint with Rosario Central he claimed his Argentine citizenship right, to avoid filling up a "foreigner" slot in Argentine clubs. When drafted by then-coach José Pekerman to the Argentine under-20 team, Moreno accepted, thus preempting any eventual call to the Spain national football team.

Moreno's career in Spain had little success. During his tenure with Villarreal CF, he played mostly with the Onda farm team. He was more successful in Mexico, to the point that Argentina's Vélez Sársfield brought him to fulfill a key slot in midfield. After a modest success under coach Ricardo LaVolpe, Moreno was transferred in June 2007 to Estudiantes de La Plata, where he played as a creative midfielder, mostly on the right, while helping Rodrigo Braña in the defensive department. After a brief return to Rosario Central, in 2009 he played for Greek side Skoda Xanthi, but he returned to Argentina after only 8 games in Greece to sign for Cólon.^[2]

In January 2014, he signed a new contract with Uruguayan side Liverpool.

Nickname

In Argentina, he is known as the "Torero (bullfighter)" because of his signature goal celebration, imitating a matador's pass, which was conceived to dedicate the goal to his parents in Spain.

References

^ "Un torero suelto". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 17 July 2007.
^ Moreno y Fabianesi vuelve a Colón at ESPN

External links

(in Spanish) Argentine Primera statistics
(in Spanish) Nota sobre Iván Moreno en Mundo Deportivo^{[permanent dead link]}
(in Spanish) Artículo sobre su conflicto en Colón Archived 27 September 2007 at the Wayback Machine
(in Spanish) Nota tras su incorporación a Vélez

[1] "Un torero suelto". Mundo Deportivo (in Spanish). 17 July 2007.

[2] Moreno y Fabianesi vuelve a Colón at ESPN

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