Pablo García
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Pablo Gabriel García Pérez
(born 11 May, 1977 in Pando, Canelones) is an Uruguayan football midfielder. His nickname is Canario.
He started his career in his home country team, Montevideo Wanderers, before being transferred to Atlético de Madrid after two seasons. He only played for Atlético B during this time, before being transferred to A.C. Milan and thence Venezia.
After returning to Spain and playing for CA Osasuna for three seasons, his impressive performances saw him transferred to Real Madrid, where he currently wears the number 12 shirt. García is known to be an effective defensive midfielder or holding midfielder, and is currently Real Madrid's first-choice holding midfielder ahead of Danish midfield destroyer Thomas Gravesen. However, Garcia was not able to help his country Uruguay qualify for the 2006 World Cup to be held in Germany, as the Uruguayans, after a 1-0 home victory over Australia in the first-leg playoff, lost in penalty kicks in the away leg after Australia hung on to a 1-0 lead for 120 minutes.
Career Stats
Montevideo Wanderers 111/3
Athletico Madrid 0/0
A.C Milan 17/0
Venezia 33/2
Osasuna 117/13
Real Madrid 25/0
Uruguay 67/5
Honors and awards
- 1997 FIFA World Youth Championship silver-medal
| Real Madrid - Current Squad |
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| 1 Casillas | 2 Salgado | 3 Carlos | 4 Ramos | 6 Helguera | 7 Raúl | 8 Baptista | 9 Ronaldo | 10 Robinho | 11 Cicinho | 12 García | 13 López | 14 Guti | 15 Bravo | 16 Gravesen | 18 Woodgate | 19 Cassano | 20 Miñambres | 21 Diogo | 22 Pavón | 23 Beckham | 24 Mejía |
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