Gerardo Federico Magallanes González (born 28 August 1976) is an

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retired footballer who played as a forward. He played for several clubs throughout his career, including

Defensor Sporting Defensor Sporting Club is a sports club based in Montevideo, Uruguay. Founded in 1913, Defensor has several sports sections, with football and basketball being the most important and the ones in which the club has achieved significant achievem ...

, Peñarol Montevideo,

Atalanta B.C. Atalanta Bergamasca Calcio, commonly referred to as Atalanta, is a professional football club based in Bergamo, Lombardy, Italy. The club plays in Serie A, having gained promotion from Serie B in 2010–11. Atalanta was founded in 1907 by Lice ...

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, S.S.C. Venezia,

Torino F.C. Torino Football Club (), commonly referred to as Torino or simply Toro, is an Italian professional football club based in Turin, Piedmont. They currently play in Serie A. Founded as ''Foot-Ball Club Torino'' in 1906, Torino are among the mos ...

SD Eibar Sociedad Deportiva Eibar (in eu, Eibar Kirol Elkartea) is a professional Spanish football club based in Eibar, Gipuzkoa, in the autonomous Basque Country. Founded on 30 November 1940, the team currently plays in the Segunda División, the s ...

Sevilla FC Sevilla Fútbol Club () is a Spanish professional football club based in Seville, the capital and largest city of the autonomous community of Andalusia, Spain. It plays in Spanish football's top flight, La Liga. Sevilla have won the UEFA E ...

Dijon FCO Dijon Football Côte d'Or (; literally "Dijon Football Gold Coast"), commonly referred to as Dijon FCO or simply as Dijon, is a French football club based in Dijon. The club was founded in 1998 as a result of a merger between two local clubs in ...

and closed his career at

Mérida UD Mérida Unión Deportiva was a Spanish football club based in Mérida, in the autonomous community of Extremadura. Founded in 1990, they last played in Tercera División – Group 14 when dissolved in 2013, and hosted games at the Estadio Rom ...

in March 2009. After having been without contract for over a year, on 26 October 2008, Magallanes made his debut for

, in the Spanish 2ª División B, where he has signed until end of the 2008–09 season. At international level, he also has played for the

Uruguay national football team The Uruguay national football team ( es, Selección de fútbol de Uruguay) represents Uruguay in international football, and is controlled by the Uruguayan Football Association, the governing body for football in Uruguay. The Uruguayan team i ...

on 26 occasions between 1995 and 2002, scoring 6 goals, and was a member of team that finished in second-place at the 1999 Copa América; he was also participant at the

2002 FIFA World Cup The 2002 FIFA World Cup, also branded as Korea Japan 2002, was the 17th FIFA World Cup, the quadrennial football world championship for men's national teams organized by FIFA. It was held from 31 May to 30 June 2002 at sites in South Korea an ...

.Federico Magallanes Statistics
'' FIFA''. Retrieved 22 January 2010.

Honours

International

* Copa América: Runner-up

1999 File:1999 Events Collage.png, From left, clockwise: The funeral procession of King Hussein of Jordan in Amman; the 1999 İzmit earthquake kills over 17,000 people in Turkey; the Columbine High School massacre, one of the first major school shoot ...

References

1976 births Living people Uruguayan footballers Footballers from Montevideo Uruguayan Primera División players Peñarol players Defensor Sporting players Ligue 2 players Dijon FCO players Atalanta B.C. players Venezia F.C. players Torino F.C. players Serie A players Expatriate footballers in Italy Expatriate footballers in France Expatriate footballers in Spain La Liga players Segunda División players Real Madrid CF players Racing de Santander players SD Eibar footballers Sevilla FC players Uruguay international footballers 2002 FIFA World Cup players 1999 Copa América players Uruguayan expatriate footballers Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Spain Uruguayan people of Spanish descent Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Italy Association football forwards {{Uruguay-footy-forward-1970s-stub