Luis Manuel Castro Cáceres (born 27 September 1995) is a Uruguayan professional
footballer who plays as a
right winger for
Liga MX
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The league is considered the strongest in North America, and among the strongest in a ...
club Juárez.
Career
Castro's career started in his homeland with
Montevideo Wanderers, manager
Alfredo Arias
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Deportivo Independiente Medellà ...
promoted the midfielder into his first-team squad during the
2014–15 Uruguayan Primera División season
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.
Having been an unused substitute for matches with
El Tanque Sisley,
Rampla Juniors
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and
Tacuarembó, Castro made his first professional appearance in a 1–0 loss away to
Sud América
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History
Sud América has won the Uruguayan 2nd Division on 7 occasion ...
on 6 December 2014.
That was his sole appearance that season, with just two more coming in
2015–16.
Castro featured fifteen times in the next campaign, whilst scoring his first three senior goals; including his opener over
Nacional
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in September 2016.
In total, Castro appeared in eighty-seven matches for Montevideo Wanderers across five years, a spell in which he netted seventeen goals; notably eleven of which came in
2018
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, which was his last season with the club.
On 4 January 2019, Castro joined
Argentine Primera División
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Th ...
side
Estudiantes; signing a three-year contract.
After debuting in a home loss to
Vélez Sarsfield on 28 January, he netted his first goal on 18 February against
Argentinos Juniors.
Further goals versus
Talleres and, in the
Copa Argentina,
Sarmiento occurred across thirty total appearances in his first twelve months with Estudiantes.
Midway through Castro's second season with Estudiantes he joined
Major League Soccer
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's
Atlanta United on a six-month loan, with an option for the club to extend the deal for the rest of the season. He made his debut in the
CONCACAF Champions League
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on 11 March as Atlanta lost 3–0 at the
Estadio Azteca to
América.
The club, during the season's delay due to the
COVID-19 pandemic, exercised their loan extension option on 29 June.
After three appearances in the
MLS is Back Tournament, Castro made his regular season bow in a win over
Orlando City on 29 August.
His loan ended on 24 November, after the winger had appeared eleven times; though just three were as a starter.
Career statistics
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Notes
References
External links
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1995 births
Living people
People from Durazno
Uruguayan men's footballers
Men's association football midfielders
Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers
Montevideo Wanderers F.C. players
Estudiantes de La Plata footballers
Atlanta United FC players
Uruguayan Primera División players
Argentine Primera División players
Major League Soccer players
Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina
Expatriate men's soccer players in the United States
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina
Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in the United States