Gaston Curbelo (born April 8, 1976) is a French former

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who played as a striker. He played the majority of his career for

AS Nancy Association Sportive Nancy Lorraine (), commonly known as AS Nancy Lorraine, or simply Nancy, is a French association football club founded in 1967 in Nancy, Grand Est and located in Tomblaine, in the inner suburbs of Nancy. The club currently ...

in the

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. Gaston Curbelo was born in Nancy and is the son of 1970s AS Nancy player

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. He holds both French and Uruguayan nationalities. His family relocated to

Nice Nice ( , ; Niçard: , classical norm, or , nonstandard, ; it, Nizza ; lij, Nissa; grc, Νίκαια; la, Nicaea) is the prefecture of the Alpes-Maritimes department in France. The Nice agglomeration extends far beyond the administrative c ...

where Gaston signed for

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as a youngster. The family moved again, back to Uruguay, where he signed for

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. However, it was back in Nancy that Curbelo was to begin his professional career in earnest. Signing in 2000 for the

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club, he debuted in the 1–0 defeat at

FC Gueugnon Football Club Gueugnonnais (commonly called Gueugnon ) is a French association football club based in Gueugnon, Burgundy. The club was formed in 1940 and plays its home matches at the Stade Jean Laville located within the city. The club has ...

on March 10, 2002. Curbelo became a regular for Nancy at the end of that season and, apart from an injury which ruled him out of a large portion of Nancy's first season back in

, has played regularly for the club since.

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1976 births Living people Uruguayan men's footballers French men's footballers Footballers from Nancy, France French people of Uruguayan descent Ligue 1 players AS Nancy Lorraine players Men's association football forwards Footballers from Nice {{france-footy-forward-1970s-stub