Sebastián Bruno Fernández Miglierina (born 23 May 1985) is a Uruguayan professional

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who plays as a forward for

Danubio Danubio Fútbol Club is a Uruguayan association football, football club based in Jardines del Hipódromo, Montevideo that currently plays in the Uruguayan Primera División. Founded in 1945, the club's home stadium is Jardines del Hipódromo Ma ...

Club career

upFernández with Málaga in 2012 Born in

Montevideo Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

, Fernández started his professional playing career in 2004 with

Miramar Misiones Club Sportivo Miramar Misiones, usually known simply as Miramar Misiones is a Uruguayan football club based in Montevideo. The club was formed from the merger of two clubs: Miramar (founded on October 17, 1915) and Misiones (founded on March 26, ...

. In 2007, he joined

Defensor Sporting Club 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 achievement ...

, where he was part of the team that won the

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2007 championship and the Copa Uruguaya 2008. In 2008, he joined Argentine

Club Atlético Banfield Club Atlético Banfield is an Argentine sports club based in the Banfield, Buenos Aires, Banfield city of Greater Buenos Aires. It was founded on 21 January 1896, by the British–origin inhabitants of that city (mostly English people, English, ...

, where he was a key member of the squad that won the Apertura 2009 championship, appearing in 16 of their 19 games. On 13 December 2009 he celebrated with his teammates when Banfield won the Argentine championship for the first time in the history of the club. On 17 February 2010, Fernandez helped his teammates thrash

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, scoring two goals either side of half-time to enrich his team's 4–1 victory in Ecuador. In July 2010 he had a medical with

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side

Málaga CF Málaga Club de Fútbol (, ''Málaga Football Club''), or simply Málaga, is a club based in Málaga, Andalusia, Spain, who compete in Segunda División, the second tier of the Spanish football league system, Spanish league system, following the ...

. On 5 August 2010 he signed a contract with Málaga for four years and his transfer cost the Spanish side €3.6 million. He already started to pay off some of his fee as he scored a goal on his debut in a home match against

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on 28 August 2010. He finished the season with 7 league goals, being the club's second highest goalscorer. In 2011–12, after the summer signing of

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, Seba was demoted to third choice striker, often coming on as a substitute. On 21 November he started as a right winger against

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and scored his first goal of the season, in a 3–1 away win. Exactly one year later he scored his first Champions League group stage goal in a 2–2 away draw against

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. Fernandez signed for

Rayo Vallecano Rayo Vallecano de Madrid, S.A.D. (), often abbreviated to Rayo (Spanish for "thunderbolt"), is a Spanish professional football club based in the Villa de Vallecas district of Madrid. The club competes in La Liga, the top flight of Spanish foot ...

in the summer of 2013 but suffered an injury early in the season, ruling him out of the majority of the campaign. His 86th-minute header in Rayo's 3–0 win against

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on 26 April 2014 was his first goal in more than two years. On 1 August 2014 Fernández returned to his home country, joining

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. Fernández played for Nacional until the end of 2020. In April 2021, he moved to Liverpool Montevideo. On 5 January 2022, Fernández signed a one-year deal with

.Sebastián "Papelito" Fernández jugará la temporada 2022 en Danubio
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International career

Fernández made his international debut for the Uruguay national team as a late substitute in a friendly game against

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on 24 May 2006. In May 2010 he has been called up for 2010 World Cup. On 27 July 2010, he was reserved to play a friendly match against

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. Fernández scored his first goal for

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in a friendly match against

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Career statistics

International

:''Scores and results list Uruguay's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Fernández goal.''

Honours

Defensor Sporting *

Uruguayan Primera División The Liga Profesional de Primera División (American Spanish , , local: , ''First Division''), named "Torneo Uruguayo Copa Coca-Cola" for sponsorship reasons, is the highest professional Association football, football league in Uruguay organized b ...

: 2007 Apertura Banfield *

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: 2009 Apertura Nacional *

: 2014–15,

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

2019 This was the year in which the first known human case of COVID-19 was documented, preceding COVID-19 pandemic, the pandemic which was declared by the World Health Organization the following year. Up to that point, 2019 had been described as ...

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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 ...

* Torneo Intermedio: 2017, 2018, 2020

References

External links

Málaga official profile
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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Fernandez, Sebastian 1985 births Living people Footballers from Montevideo Uruguayan people of Spanish descent Uruguayan sportspeople of Italian descent Men's association football forwards Uruguayan men's footballers Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers Uruguay men's international footballers 2010 FIFA World Cup players Uruguayan Primera División players Argentine Primera División players Miramar Misiones players Defensor Sporting players Club Atlético Banfield footballers La Liga players Málaga CF players Rayo Vallecano players Club Nacional de Football players Liverpool F.C. (Montevideo) players Danubio F.C. players Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Spain Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina Expatriate men's footballers in Spain