Carlos Galván
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Carlos Alberto Galván | ||
Date of birth | October 28, 1973 | ||
Place of birth | Pontevedra, Argentina | ||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Centre-back, Sweeper | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Sport Loreto (Head coach) | ||
Youth career | |||
Racing Club | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1992–1998 | Racing Club | 115 | (2) |
1998–2000 | Atlético Mineiro | 34 | (2) |
2000–2002 | Santos | 20 | (1) |
2002–2003 | Lanús | 63 | (2) |
2004 | Ciudad de Murcia | 4 | (0) |
2004 | Paysandu | 7 | (0) |
2004–2005 | Argentinos Juniors | 36 | (1) |
2005–2006 | Olimpia | ? | (?) |
2006–2007 | Banfield | 33 | (1) |
2007–2012 | Universitario de Deportes | 150 | (8) |
2012–2014 | UCV | 36 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2013–2014 | UCV (assistant) | ||
2014 | UCV | ||
2014–2015 | UCV (youth) | ||
2015 | Willy Serrato | ||
2016 | Comerciantes Unidos (assistant) | ||
2016–2017 | Willy Serrato | ||
2017 | Los Caimanes | ||
2018 | Sport Loreto | ||
2018 | Deportivo Hualgayoc | ||
2018 | Sport Rosario (assistant) | ||
2019 | Chavelines Juniors | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Carlos Alberto Galván (born 28 October 1973 in Pontevedra, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a defender and football coach.
Club career
[edit]Galván started his career at Racing Club de Avellaneda in 1992, before moving to Brazil in 1998 to play for Clube Atlético Mineiro.
In Brazil he was seen as a skilled defender. His technique was at its best when playing as a sweeper. He scored some key goals. He has a powerful header and sense for positioning.
Among other titles, he won the Minas Gerais state with Atlético Minero. He was also in the Atlético Minero side that were runners-up in the Brazilian Championship in 1999 and with Santos in 2000 when they won the São Paulo State Championship. He played for two years at each team in Brazil. In 1998, with Atlético, he has involved in a fight at Vitória's stadium, where he was one of four players from each side sent off. He also scored an own goal at Vila Belmiro, in a 2–0 defeat against Santos' biggest rivals, Corinthians. He also played for Paysandu, in 2004.
Galván returned to Argentina in 2002 to play for Club Atlético Lanús and in 2004 he had a brief spell with Ciudad de Murcia in Spain. He has also played for Club Olimpia in Paraguay and Argentinos Juniors in Argentina.
In 2007 Galván joined Peruvian team Universitario de Deportes, in February 2009 he announced that he plans to retire in December 2010 to take up a position as a youth coach with the club.[1]
Honours
[edit]Club
[edit]- Campeonato Mineiro (2): 1999, 2000
- Torneo Apertura 2008 (1): 2008
- Primera División Peruana (1): 2009
References
[edit]- ^ Carlos Galván anuncia que se retirará el 2010 en Universitario Archived March 3, 2009, at the Wayback Machine at rpp.com (in Spanish)
External links
[edit]- Carlos Galván at ESPN FC
- Argentine Primera statistics at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-02-17) (in Spanish)
- Carlos Galván at FootballDatabase.eu
- 1973 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Buenos Aires Province
- Argentine men's footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers
- Clube Atlético Mineiro players
- Santos FC players
- Club Atlético Lanús footballers
- Ciudad de Murcia footballers
- Argentinos Juniors footballers
- Club Olimpia footballers
- Club Atlético Banfield footballers
- Club Universitario de Deportes footballers
- Club Deportivo Universidad César Vallejo footballers
- Argentine Primera División players
- Peruvian Primera División players
- Argentine expatriate men's footballers
- Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil
- Expatriate men's footballers in Paraguay
- Expatriate men's footballers in Peru
- Expatriate men's footballers in Spain
- Universidad Técnica de Cajamarca managers
- Sportspeople from Merlo Partido