Horacio Calcaterra
Calcaterra in 2023
Personal information
Full name Horacio Martín Calcaterra
Date of birth (1989-02-22) February 22, 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth Santa Fe, Argentina
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Attacking Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Universitario de Deportes
Number 10
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2008–2010 Rosario Central 1 (0)
2011 Unión Comercio 26 (4)
2012 Universitario 34 (7)
2013–2022 Sporting Cristal 310 (44)
2023- Universitario 40 (5)
International career‡
2018– Peru 9 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:23, 13 November 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 09:03, 25 March 2022 (UTC)

Horacio Martín Calcaterra (born 22 February 1989) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Peruvian Liga 1 club Universitario de Deportes.[1] Born in Argentina, he plays for the Peru national team.

Club career

Calcaterra began his senior career with Rosario Central in the 2007–08 Argentine Primera División season.[1]

In January 2011, he joined the recently promoted Peruvian club Unión Comercio.[1] Calcaterra made his debut in the first game of the 2011 season in a 4–1 loss against Alianza Lima. He scored a goal with an assist by Miguel Trauco.[2] There he played under managers Hernán Lisi and later Julio César Uribe. Calcaterra featured as a regular for Comercio, making 26 appearances with 4 goals during the season and contributing to his team qualifying for the first time to an international competition: the 2012 Copa Sudamericana.

On 20 January 2012, it was announced that Calcaterra had joined Universitario de Deportes.[3] There, he played 34 matches and scored 7 goals.

In 2013, he was signed by Sporting Cristal, and there, that same year, he disputed the Copa Libertadores for the first time. In 2014, Cristal won the national league with Calcaterra standing out in the team's midfield along Jorge Cazulo and Carlos Lobatón. In the third leg of that year's finals against Juan Aurich, he scored the 2-2 goal for Cristal which sent the game into extra time, where a goal by Edinson Chávez would finally win Cristal the game, and thus, the national title. On 15 November 2022, Cristal officially announced Calcaterra's departure after 10 seasons wearing the celeste shirt.[4]

On 23 November 2022, Universitario de Deportes announced the return of Horacio Calcaterra to the club, with a contract for three seasons.[5]

International career

Born in Argentina, Calcaterra was nationalized as a Peruvian. He represents the Peru national team since 2018.[6]

Honours

Club

Sporting Cristal
Universitario de Deportes

References

  1. ^ a b c "Player -Horacio Calcaterra". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  2. ^ "Alianza Lima 4-1 Unión Comercio". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  3. ^ "Argentino Horacio Calcaterra llegó para ponerse la 10 de la 'U'". elcomercio.pe. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
  4. ^ "Horacio Calcaterra se va de Sporting Cristal: la despedida de los celestes al volante" [Horacio Calcaterra leaves Sporting Cristal: the farewell of the "celestes" to the midfielder]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 15 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  5. ^ Galiano, Renzo (23 November 2023). "Horacio Calcaterra regresa a la 'U' tras una década" [Horacio Calcaterra returns to "la U" after a decade]. AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 November 2023.
  6. ^ "Horacio Calcaterra es la gran novedad en convocatoria de la selección". 18 August 2018.

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Sporting Cristal – current squad
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