Octavio Rivero

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Octavio Rivero
File:Octavio Rivero at Avaya.jpg
Rivero with Vancouver Whitecaps FC in 2015
Personal information
Full name Raúl Octavio Rivero Falero
Date of birth (1992-01-24) 24 January 1992 (age 32)
Place of birth Treinta y Tres, Uruguay
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Position(s) Striker
Team information
Current team
 Vancouver Whitecaps FC
Number 29
Youth career
2008–2011 Defensor Sporting
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2012–2013 Central Español 19 (3)
2013–2014 Rentistas 17 (10)
2014 O'Higgins 16 (10)
2014– Vancouver Whitecaps FC 44 (10)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 27 April 2016

Raúl Octavio Rivero (born 24 January 1992) is a Uruguayan footballer currently playing for Vancouver Whitecaps FC in the Major League Soccer.

Career

Beginnings and Uruguay teams

Rivero began his playing career at local club Huracán de Treinta y Tres, where despite being a striker he also played as an attacking midfielder. In 2008 he moved to Montevideo to play for Defensor Sporting and remained on the clubs youth program for four years.[1]

In 2012 he joined Central Español where his professional career began, and debuted for the first team in a game against Danubio. In his first season as a professional he played 16 games as a starter and finished the championship with 3 goals. For the next championship he was transferred to Rentistas and begins the most successful cycle of his career as the top scorer of the club with 10 goals and is one of the principal figures of the team finishing the season as one of the top scorers of the Uruguayan Clausura 2014 helping Rentistas qualify to the Copa Sudamericana 2014.

O'Higgins

His great performances with Rentistas led him to sign for Chilean Champion O'Higgins in 2014, where he scored 10 goals in 16 matches, being one of the best players of the Chilean championship.[2]

Vancouver Whitecaps

Rivero's success at O'Higgins attracted the interest of Vancouver Whitecaps FC of Major League Soccer who signed Rivero as a young designated player on 25 December 2014.[3] He scored his first goal for the Whitecaps on his debut, against Toronto FC, giving Vancouver a 1–0 lead, but they ended up losing the game 3–1.[4] Rivero followed up on his goal with an 86th-minute winner away at Chicago Fire to earn his team a 1-0 win. [5] Rivero continued his impressive goal scoring form to start his Whitecaps career with his third goal in three games, this time another game winner deep into second half stoppage time away at Orlando City SC, again to earn his team a 1-0 win.[6] After scoring 3 goals in 4 games, Rivero was named MLS Player of the Month for the month of March 2015.[7] On 4 April, his 5th game with Vancouver, he temporarily took over the league lead in goals with 4 goals in 5 games after scoring his teams' second goal in a 2-0 win over the LA Galaxy.[8] After that Rivero scored another goal against the Columbus Crew SC in a 2–2 draw earning him a league-leading five goals in six games for the Whitecaps.[9]

Career statistics

Club

As of 29 December 2015
Club Season League National Cup Supercopa Continental Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
O'Higgins 2014–15[10] Primera División 16 10 2 0 — 18 10
Vancouver Whitecaps 2015[10] MLS 34 10 0 0 — 34 10
Career total 50 20 2 0 0 0 0 0 50 20

References

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