Rubén_Rivera_Corral
Rubén Rivera (footballer)
Spanish footballer
Rubén Rivera Corral (born 3 May 1985) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward for CD As Pontes.
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Rubén Rivera Corral | ||
Date of birth | (1985-05-03) 3 May 1985 (age 39) | ||
Place of birth | A Coruña, Spain | ||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | As Pontes | ||
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) |
2017–2020 | Bergantiños | 98 | (43) |
2020–2021 | Silva | 12 | (2) |
2021–2023 | Atlético Montañeros | 77 | (32) |
2023– | As Pontes | 22 | (3) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 14:14, 5 March 2024 (UTC) |
Rivera was born in A Coruña, Galicia. A product of Deportivo de La Coruña's youth academy, he appeared only once for its first team in the league, featuring 33 minutes in a 0–0 La Liga home draw against Levante UD on 18 February 2007.[1] He scored once in the Copa del Rey for them, in the 4–1 home victory over Real Valladolid in the quarter-finals.[2]
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.[3]
Rivera returned to his country in the 2014 January transfer window, signing for Segunda División B club CD Leganés on loan.[4] In the following years, he represented a host of teams at that level but also in the Tercera División.[5][6][7][8]
- Deportivo La Coruña 0–0 Levante; ESPN Soccernet, 18 February 2007
- El Depor masacra al Valladolid (Depor crush Valladolid); El País, 31 January 2007 (in Spanish)
- El delantero Rubén Rivera cierra el mercado de invierno (Forward Rubén Rivera closes winter market); CD Leganés, 31 January 2014 (in Spanish)
- 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)
- Rubén Rivera, fichaje estrella del Bergantiños (Rubén Rivera, Bergantiños' star signing); La Voz de Galicia, 28 June 2017 (in Spanish)
- Rubén Rivera at BDFutbol
- Rubén Rivera at Futbolme (in Spanish)
- Rubén Rivera at LaPreferente.com (in Spanish)
- Rubén Rivera at Soccerway