Andrés Scotti Ponce de León (born 14 December 1975) is a Uruguayan former professional

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who played as centre-back and rarely as

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. Between 2006 and 2013, he made 40 appearances and scored one goal for the Uruguay national team

Club career

Early career

Scotti was born in Montevideo, but grew up in

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, capital of

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. He started his career playing football for the local village team Independiente in 1993, when he was between 17 and 18 years old. Scotti won the regional tournament title in his second season with Independiente in 1994. After three seasons in Independiente, in 1997 he joined to

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on trial. He spent only three months there before leaving for

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. In that club, Scotti played 12 games and scored one goal for the club during the Uruguayan first division tournament of that year. In 1998, Scotti played for his first international club, the Chilean Primera División team

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, where Scotti had a good spell, for example, having much continuity, scoring goals and being elected the best player of the tournament in his position. He remained until the next season, when he was transferred to the Mexican club Necaxa. There, he achieved third place

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, after winning 4–3 on penalties against Real Madrid. In 2001, he returned to Uruguay to play again for Montevideo Wanderers. In 2002, he was transferred to Nacional, winning the Torneo Apertura and the Campeonato Uruguayo, scoring a goal in the second final game.

Russia and Argentina

He then moved to Russia in 2003 where he played for

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in the

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until December 2006. In January 2007, Scotti joined Argentine Primera División side

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, on request of the team's coach Ricardo Caruso Lombardi.

Colo-Colo

On 31 December 2009, it was announced that Scotti had come to verbal agreements with

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for an undisclosed fee. He put pen to paper on a one-year deal and joined

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club before New Year's Day alongside Argentinian Matías Quiroga. After overcoming medical examinations and training he made his debut on 15 January 2010, in a friendly against Olimpia which Colo-Colo drew 3–3. His league debut came on 23 January, in a 3–2 loss against

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and his first goal for the club was in a 3–0 home victory over

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after an excellent free kick. Then, on 8 May, Scotti scored his second league goal in a 5–2 win to

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, his goal being voted the week's best according to CDF's top five weekly summary of goals. After the

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held at South Africa (which Scotti played with Uruguay national team) he began to lose his shape, so that Diego Cagna (the club's coach) relegate him some games to the detriment of

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. On 7 November, Scotti played in the 2–2 Chilean derby draw with

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where was sent off after double yellow card following a challenge with adversary team striker

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. However Colo-Colo lost the race for the title with Universidad Católica in the penultimate matchday after a seven-point lead over San Carlos team, which finished when Scotti's side lost 2–1 with O'Higgins and Católica won simultaneously 3–2 over

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at Calama.

International career

Scotti played for

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and in the

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where he scored a penalty in the shoot-out against

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. In 2011, he won the Copa América, tournament where he scored a penalty in the shoot-out against

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in quarterfinals. On 27 July 2010, he was reserved to play a friendly match against

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. On 23 June 2013, Scotti played against

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in the

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and missed a penalty at the 49th minute. Two minutes later he was red carded when he was shown a second yellow card. Uruguay went on to win the match 8–0. He was standby player to Uruguay in FIFA World Cup 2014 in Brazil.

AUF normalisation committee

On 21 August 2018, FIFA appointed a normalisation committee for the

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(AUF). Three persons were put in charge: politicians

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(son of former dictator

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) and

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, and Scotti.

Personal life

Andrés was raised in

, the capital of

, he is the oldest son of María Cecilia Ponce de León and Carlos Scotti. He has one younger brother,

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, that is also a footballer and plays

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in Chilean Primera División. He has other two sisters, one lives in

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and the other in

Career statistics

International

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International goals

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Honours

Club

Necaxa * FIFA Club World Cup: third place

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Nacional *

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: 2002, 2011–12

International

Uruguay * Copa América: 2011 *

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: 2010 (fourth place)

References

External links

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Andrés Scotti – Argentine Primera statistics
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