Ariel Pereyra (defender)

Ariel Pereyra
Personal information
Full name Ariel Gustavo Pereyra[1]
Date of birth (1973-10-02) 2 October 1973
Place of birth Berazategui, Argentina
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)[1]
Positions
Team information
Current team
 Gimnasia La Plata (manager)
Youth career
1984–1991 Gimnasia La Plata
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
1992–2001 Gimnasia La Plata 168 (26)
2002–2004 Colón 102 (5)
2004–2006 San Lorenzo 37 (4)
2007 Huachipato 18 (0)
2008 Unión La Calera 15 (0)
Managerial career
2009–2012 Gimnasia La Plata (reserves)
2012–2015 Lanús (assistant)
2016 Palermo (assistant)
2016–2018 Boca Juniors (assistant)
2019–2020 LA Galaxy (assistant)
2021–2023 Paraguay (assistant)
2025 Colón
2026 Gimnasia La Plata (reserves)
2026 Gimnasia La Plata (interim)
2026– Gimnasia La Plata
* Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ariel Gustavo Pereyra (born 2 October 1973) is an Argentine football manager and former player who played as left-back and centre-back. He is the current manager of Gimnasia La Plata.

Pereyra played more than of 200 games at the Argentine Primera División, and his last club was Unión La Calera.

Career

Pereyra began his football career at Gimnasia de La Plata youth ranks at a very young age, being after promoted to the first adult team in the 1992–93 season, making his official debut against Belgrano in a 1–1 draw. After nine years in that club, in 2002, he joined to Colón de Santa Fe and then to Argentine powerhouse San Lorenzo de Almagro, two years later.

In January 2007, Pereyra moved to Chilean Primera División club Huachipato, playing the Apertura Tournament, in where his team qualified to the Copa Sudamericana of that year, being immediately eliminated by Colo-Colo. After of fail to play the Clausura Tournament, he joined to Primera B side of the same country, Unión La Calera, in where he finished his football career, after of play just 15 games in the second tier tournament.

After of his retirement, Pereyra accepted the work of be the coach of the youth ranks of his former club Gimnasia de La Plata, declaring also that he wants direct the first adult team of Primera División.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Ariel Pereyra at WorldFootball.net
  2. ↑ "Ariel Pereyra define los técnicos en inferiores". Diario Hoy.net. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 March 2012.
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