Facundo Oreja

Facundo Oreja
Personal information
Full name Facundo Julián Oreja
Date of birth (1982-06-14) 14 June 1982
Place of birth Mar del Plata, Argentina
Height 1.69 m (5 ft 6+12 in)[1]
Position(s) Right-back[2]
Team information
Current team
Porto (assistant)
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2008 Aldosivi 151 (2)
2008–2009 Nueva Chicago 33 (1)
2009–2011 San Martín 52 (2)
2011–2012 Ferro Carril Oeste 36 (0)
2012–2019 Gimnasia y Esgrima 196 (3)
2019–2020 Barracas Central 7 (0)
Managerial career
2020–2021 Círculo Deportivo
2022 Unión La Calera (assistant)
2022–2023 Independiente del Valle (assistant)
2024–2025 Cruz Azul (assistant)
2025– Porto (assistant)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Facundo Julián Oreja (born 14 June 1982) is an Argentine football coach and former player who played as a right-back.[1] He is the current assistant manager of Portuguese club Porto.

Career

Aldosivi were Oreja's first club, which he played for from 2002 to 2008 and scored two goals in one hundred and fifty-one appearances in Torneo Argentino A and Primera B Nacional.[3] In 2008, Oreja signed for Primera B Metropolitana side Nueva Chicago.[3] He went on to feature thirty-three times and score one goal (vs. Brown) as Nueva Chicago finished 2nd in 2008–09.[3] Further moves to San Martín and Ferro Carril Oeste in Primera B Nacional followed between 2009 and 2012, during which time he made a total of eighty-eight appearances along with two goals.[1] On 5 July 2012, Oreja joined fellow Primera B Nacional side Gimnasia y Esgrima.[1]

He played in thirty-six fixtures in his first season with Gimnasia y Esgrima, 2012–13, which concluded with promotion to the Argentine Primera División.[1][4][5] In the Primera División, Oreja featured one hundred and twenty-one times for the club across his first five seasons in Argentina's top-flight.[1] On 23 June 2019, after two hundred and twenty-one appearances for the La Plata club, Oreja agreed to depart by penning a contract with Barracas Central of Primera B Nacional.[6][7] He left the club by the end of his contract in the summer 2020.[8]

Career statistics

As of 24 June 2019.[1]
Club statistics
Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Gimnasia y Esgrima 2012–13 Primera B Nacional 36 0 1 0 0 0 37 0
2013–14 Primera División 35 0 0 0 0 0 35 0
2014 17 1 1 0 2[a] 0 0 0 20 1
2015 28 0 2 0 3[b] 0 33 0
2016 16 2 1 0 0 0 17 2
2016–17 25 0 4 0 2[a] 0 0 0 31 0
2017–18 22 0 0 0 0 0 22 0
2018–19 17 0 4 0 5 0 0 0 26 0
Career total 196 3 13 0 5 0 4 0 3 0 221 3
  1. ^ a b Appearance(s) in the Copa Sudamericana
  2. ^ Appearance(s) in the Primera División play-offs

References

  1. ^ a b c d e f g "Facundo Oreja profile". Soccerway. 18 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  2. ^ "Facundo Oreja". World Football. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  3. ^ a b c "Facundo Oreja profile". BDFA. 18 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  4. ^ "A Facundo Oreja no lo para nada, ni siquiera una rotura fibrilar". Info Cielo. 30 October 2017. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  5. ^ "Oreja: Nos vamos con bronca". Info Cielo. 10 February 2018. Retrieved 18 February 2018.
  6. ^ "Suma experiencia". Barracas Central. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Oreja es refuerzo de Barracas Central". IAM Noticias. 23 June 2019. Retrieved 24 June 2019.
  8. ^ Barracas Central, otro plantel con bajas masivas, iamnoticias.com.ar, 7 July 2020