Rubén Rivera Corral

Rubén Rivera
Personal information
Full name Rubén Rivera Corral
Date of birth (1985-05-03) 3 May 1985
Place of birth A Coruña, Spain
Height 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position Forward
Club information
Current team
 Bergantiños
Youth career
Laracha
Deportivo La Coruña
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2004–2008 Deportivo B 95 (30)
2007 Deportivo La Coruña 1 (0)
2008–2012 Montañeros 144 (58)
2012–2013 Wolfsberger AC 30 (3)
2013–2014 Admira Wacker 8 (0)
2014 → Leganés (loan) 7 (0)
2014–2015 Avilés 13 (1)
2015 Coruxo 18 (5)
2015–2017 Boiro 74 (31)
2017– Bergantiños 38 (19)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20 May 2018

Rubén Rivera Corral (born 3 May 1985) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays for Bergantiños FC as a forward.

Football career

Rivera was born in A Coruña, Galicia. A product of Deportivo de La Coruña's youth ranks he played only once for its first team, featuring 33 minutes in a 0–0 La Liga home draw against Levante UD on 18 February 2007.[1]

Subsequently, Rivera all but competed in the Spanish lower leagues, mainly with neighbouring Montañeros CF. From 2012 to 2014 he played in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, in representation of Wolfsberger AC and FC Admira Wacker Mödling.[2]

Rivera returned to his country in 2014 January transfer window, signing for Segunda División B club CD Leganés on loan.[3] In the following years, he appeared for a host of teams in that level but also in Tercera División.[4][5][6][7]

References

  1. ↑ Deportivo La Coruña 0–0 Levante; ESPN Soccernet, 18 February 2007
  2. ↑ Red Bull Salzburg am Transfermarkt am aktivsten (Red Bull Salzburg the most active in transfer market); Der Standard, 17 July 2014 (in German)
  3. ↑ El delantero Rubén Rivera cierra el mercado de invierno (Forward Rubén Rivera closes winter market); CD Leganés, 31 January 2014 (in Spanish)
  4. ↑ El Real Avilés ficha a Borja García, Matas y Rubén Rivera (Real Avilés sign Borja García, Matas and Rubén Rivera); El Comercio, 5 August 2014 (in Spanish)
  5. ↑ Rubén Rivera: «Quiero reencontrarme con mi mejor versión en el Coruxo» (Rubén Rivera: «I want to rediscover my best version in Coruxo»); La Voz de Galicia, 7 January 2015 (in Spanish)
  6. ↑ El Boiro suma a Rubén Rivera a su proyecto “de luchar por ascender” (Boiro add Rubén Rivera to their project of “fighting to promote”); Diario de Arousa, 30 June 2015 (in Spanish)
  7. ↑ Rubén Rivera, fichaje estrella del Bergantiños (Rubén Rivera, Bergantiños' star signing); La Voz de Galicia, 28 June 2017 (in Spanish)
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