Gustavo Munúa

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Personal information
Gustavo Munúa
Full name	Gustavo Adolfo Munúa Vera
Date of birth	January 27, 1978
Place of birth	Montevideo, Uruguay
Height	6'2" (189 cm)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Deportivo de La Coruña
Number	13
Youth clubs
? –1997	Club Nacional de Football
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1997–2003 2003 - Present	Club Nacional de Football Deportivo de La Coruña	? (?) 22 (0)
National team²
2003 - 2004	Uruguay	25 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 6, 2004. ² National team caps and goals correct as of June 6, 2004. * Appearances (Goals)

Gustavo Adolfo Munúa Vera (born January 27, 1978) is a Uruguayan football player who plays as a goalkeeper. He currently plays for Deportivo de La Coruña in the Spanish Liga de Fútbol Profesional.

[edit] Career

He started his career in Nacional, where he won the uruguyan league titles of 1998, 2000, 2001 and 2002. In Nacional, Munúa established the record of longest time without conceding a goal: 963 minutes. Munúa also has the record of being the first goalkeeper to score a goal in uruguayan football, when he made a fantastic free-kick to give Nacional the victory in a league match against Central Español. He also scored some goals from penalties, in the uruguayan league and in Copa Libertadores. He left Nacional in 2003, joining La Liga club Deportivo de La Coruña, where he plays nowadays.

Munúa has been capped with Uruguay national team many times, participating in the FIFA World Cup 2002 in Korea and Japan and in the qualyfing round for FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany.

[edit] Honors and awards

1997 FIFA World Youth Championship: Runner-up.
Uruguayan League: 1998, 2000, 2001, 2002.

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National team profile and stats

	Uruguay squad - 2002 FIFA World Cup
1 Carini \| 2 Méndez \| 3 Lembo \| 4 Montero \| 5 García \| 6 Rodríguez \| 7 Guigou \| 8 Varela \| 9 Silva \| 10 O'Neill \| 11 Magallanes \| 12 Munúa \| 13 Abreu \| 14 Sorondo \| 15 Olivera \| 16 Romero \| 17 Regueiro \| 18 Morales \| 19 Bizera \| 20 Recoba \| 21 Forlán \| 22 de los Santos \| 23 Elduayen \| Coach: Púa

Deportivo de La Coruña - Current Squad
1 Aouate \| 2 Manuel Pablo \| 3 Pablo Álvarez \| 4 Duscher \| 5 Coloccini \| 6 De Guzmán \| 7 Bodipo \| 8 Sergio \| 9 Taborda \| 10 Arizmendi \| 11 Riki \| 12 Adrián \| 13 Munúa \| 14 Andrade \| 15 Capdevila \| 16 Juan Rodriguez \| 18 Lopo \| 19 Barragán \| 20 Cristian \| 21 Valerón \| 22 Juanma \| 23 Estoyanoff \| 24 Verdú \| 25 Filipe \| 26 Iago \| 35 Rivera \| Manager: Caparrós