Rubén Daniel Bentancourt Morales (born 2 March 1993) is a Uruguayan professional

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who plays as a

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for

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club

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Career

Bentancourt made his professional debut as

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player in the second division on 19 August 2013 against

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. On 31 January 2014, he moved from PSV to

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side

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for an undisclosed fee. On 5 August 2014, Atalanta signed Rolando Bianchi from

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in a temporary deal, with Bentancourt moved to opposite direction on loan. On 9 February 2015, he was loaned out by Uruguayan club

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. On 15 July 2016, he was released by Atalanta. On 2 September he was signed by Argentine club

Defensa y Justicia Club Social y Deportivo Defensa y Justicia, commonly known as Defensa y Justicia, is an Argentine football club from Florencio Varela, Buenos Aires, established in 1935.

. On 28 December 2017, he was signed by Colombian club

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. On 2 August 2021, he joined

Peñarol Club Atlético Peñarol (), more commonly referred to as Peñarol, is a Uruguayan professional football club based in Montevideo. The club currently competes in the Uruguayan Primera División, the highest tier in Uruguayan football. The nam ...

Honours

Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo) *

2023 Uruguayan Primera División season The 2023 Liga Profesional de Primera División season, also known as the Campeonato Uruguayo de Primera División 2023, was the 120th season of the Uruguayan Primera División, Uruguay's top-flight football league, and the 93rd in which it is pro ...

Peñarol *

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Supercopa Uruguaya The Supercopa Uruguaya (''Uruguayan Supercup'') is an annual one-match football official competition in Uruguay organised by the Uruguayan Football Association (AUF) which is played between the Primera División champions and the Torneo Intermedio ...

2022 The year began with another wave in the COVID-19 pandemic, with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant, Omicron spreading rapidly and becoming the dominant variant of the SARS-CoV-2 virus worldwide. Tracking a decrease in cases and deaths, 2022 saw ...

References

External links

La Gazzetta dello Sport profile (2014–15)
* 1993 births Living people Bettencourt family Footballers from Salto, Uruguay Men's association football forwards Uruguayan men's footballers Uruguay men's under-20 international footballers Eerste Divisie players Serie A players Serie B players Serie C players Argentine Primera División players Uruguayan Primera División players Campeonato Brasileiro Série B players Categoría Primera A players Ascenso MX players PSV Eindhoven players Atalanta BC players Bologna FC 1909 players Defensor Sporting players SS Arezzo players Defensa y Justicia footballers Paraná Clube players Sud América players Independiente Santa Fe footballers Atlante F.C. footballers Boston River players Peñarol players Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo) players Club Nacional de Football players Argentinos Juniors footballers Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Italy Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Colombia Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in the Netherlands Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil Expatriate men's footballers in Colombia Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico 21st-century Uruguayan sportsmen {{Uruguay-footy-forward-1990s-stub