Gastón Alexander del Castillo (born 10 June 1997) is an Argentine professional

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who plays as a

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for Saltillo FC in Mexico.

Career

Born in

Avellaneda Avellaneda (, ) is a port city in the provinces of Argentina, province of Buenos Aires Province, Buenos Aires, Argentina, and the seat of the Avellaneda Partido, whose population was 342,677 as per the . Avellaneda is located within the Greater B ...

, Castillo was promoted to train with the Independiente first-team in August 2015. He made his professional debut for the club on 30 April 2016 in the Primera División against

San Lorenzo San Lorenzo is the Italian and Spanish name for Saint Lawrence, the 3rd-century Christian martyr, and may refer to: Places Argentina * San Lorenzo, Santa Fe * San Lorenzo Department, Chaco * Villa San Lorenzo, town and municipality in Salta P ...

. He came on as a 79th-minute substitute for Leandro Fernández as Independiente lost 1–0. On 30 August 2016, Castillo was loaned to

Segunda División The Campeonato Nacional de Liga de Segunda División, commonly known as Segunda División or La Liga 2, and officially known as LaLiga HyperMotion for sponsorship reasons, is the men's second professional association football division of the Spa ...

side

Cádiz CF Cádiz Club de Fútbol, S.A.D. is a Spanish professional football club based in Cádiz, Andalusia. Founded in 1910, the club competes in Segunda División, holding home games at Nuevo Mirandilla, with a seating capacity of 20,724. Salvadoran ...

, for one year. He joined

Arsenal de Sarandí Arsenal Fútbol Club (), usually referred as Arsenal de Sarandí , or simply Arsenal, is an Argentine sports club from the Sarandí district of Avellaneda Partido, Greater Buenos Aires. The football team currently plays in Primera Nacional, t ...

on loan in August 2017. In August 2019, Castillo was transferred to Saltillo FC in the Liga Premier Mexicana (3rd Division).Hermano del ‘Kun’ Agüero jugará con el Saltillo FC
, zocalo.com.mx, 10 August 2019

Personal life

Castillo is the brother of fellow footballers Mauricio del Castillo and

Sergio Agüero Sergio Leonel Agüero del Castillo (born 2 June 1988), also known as Kun Agüero, is an Argentine former professional Association football, footballer who played as a Forward (association football)#Striker, striker. He is regarded as one of th ...

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:del Castillo, Gaston 1997 births Living people Footballers from Avellaneda Argentine men's footballers Men's association football forwards Club Atlético Independiente footballers Argentine Primera División players Segunda División players Cádiz CF Mirandilla players Cádiz CF players Arsenal de Sarandí footballers Argentine expatriate men's footballers Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Spain Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico 21st-century Argentine sportsmen