Matías Israel Cortave (born 27 June 1992) is an Argentine professional

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who plays as a

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for

Deportivo Morón Club Deportivo Morón is an Argentine sports club located in the city of Morón, Buenos Aires. Deportivo Morón's football team currently plays in Primera B Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football league system. The club was found ...

Career

Cortave began his career in 2013 with

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Primera B Nacional Primera Nacional (usually called simply Nacional B, (English "National B Division"), and known as Primera B Nacional until the 2019–20 season) is the second division of the Argentine football league system. The competition is made up of 38 team ...

. He was selected in nine matches, including for his professional debut on 8 November against

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, during the 2013–14 campaign which ended with relegation to

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. Thirteen appearances followed across two seasons, with the latter three arriving in the club's title-winning campaign of

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. On 19 July 2016, Cortave completed a move to Israel to join

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. He participated in thirty-seven matches, making his last appearance for them in May 2017 in a 2–0 defeat to Hapoel Nir Ramat HaSharon at

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. September 2017 saw Cortave rejoin Primera B Nacional's Brown. He played a part in twenty fixtures in his first season back with the

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club in 2017–18. Cortave left one season and twelve appearances later, as he agreed a move across the division to

. He remained for two campaigns, featuring a total of twenty-six times. In January 2021, Cortave was announced as a new signing by

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. At the end of January 2022, Cortave returned to his homeland again, when he signed with

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.Firmó Matías Cortave y este sábado amistoso ante All Boys
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Career statistics

Honours

;Brown *

: 2015

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Cortave, Matias 1992 births Living people Argentine men's footballers Argentine expatriate men's footballers Footballers from Quilmes Men's association football defenders Primera Nacional players Primera B Metropolitana players Liga Leumit players Club Atlético Brown footballers Maccabi Herzliya F.C. players Deportivo Morón footballers C.S.D. Macará footballers Quilmes Atlético Club footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Israel Expatriate men's footballers in Ecuador Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Israel Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Ecuador 21st-century Argentine sportsmen