Gastón Olveira
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| Full name | Gastón Hernán Olveira Echeverría | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 21 April 1993 | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Montevideo, Uruguay | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.91 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||||||||||||||||
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Current team | Olimpia | ||||||||||||||||
| Number | 1 | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| River Plate Montevideo | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 2014–2021 | River Plate Montevideo | 95 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2021 | → Olimpia (loan) | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 2022– | Olimpia | 124 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
| 2026– | Paraguay | 1 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 21 March 2026 ‡ National team caps and goals as of 27 March 2026 | |||||||||||||||||
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Gastón Hernán Olveira Echeverría (born 21 April 1993) is a professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for Paraguayan Primera División club Club Olimpia. Born in Uruguay, he plays for the Paraguay national team.
Club career
Olveira began his career in 2013 with River Plate Montevideo. He made his league debut for the club on 19 April 2014 in a 2–1 away defeat to Sud América.[1]
On 17 January 2021, Club Olimpia announced the signing of Olveira on a season long loan deal.[2] At the end of the year, River Plate bought Olveira from River Plate and signed him on a permanently 4-year deal.[3]
International career
Olveira was part of Uruguay squad which won gold medal at the 2015 Pan American Games.[4] On 11 October 2019, he received his first call-up to the Uruguay national team as a replacement for Fernando Muslera.[5] On 21 October 2022, he was named in Uruguay's 55-man preliminary squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup.[6] However, he was not included in the final squad, which was announced three weeks later.[7]
He was naturalized as Paraguayan in 2026, and was called up to the Paraguay national team in March 2026.[8] On 1 June 2026, he was named by head coach Gustavo Alfaro in Paraguay's 26-man squad for the 2026 FIFA World Cup.[9]
Career statistics
Club
- As of 21 March 2026[10]
| Club | Season | League | Cup | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| River Plate Montevideo | 2013–14 | Liga AUF Uruguaya | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | ||
| 2014–15 | 15 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 15 | 0 | ||||
| 2015–16 | 12 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | — | 12 | 0 | ||||
| 2016 | 7 | 0 | — | — | — | 7 | 0 | |||||
| 2017 | 4 | 0 | — | — | — | 4 | 0 | |||||
| 2018 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 2019 | 35 | 0 | — | 4[a] | 0 | 1[b] | 0 | 40 | 0 | |||
| 2020 | 21 | 0 | — | 6[a] | 0 | — | 27 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 95 | 0 | — | 10 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 106 | 0 | |||
| Olimpia (loan) | 2021 | APF División de Honor | 5 | 0 | — | 2[c] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 7 | 0 | |
| Olimpia | 2022 | 33 | 0 | — | 11[d] | 0 | — | 44 | 0 | |||
| 2023 | 19 | 0 | — | 5[c] | 0 | 1[e] | 0 | 25 | 0 | |||
| 2024 | 42 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | — | 46 | 0 | |||
| 2025 | 17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3[c] | 0 | — | 20 | 0 | |||
| 2026 | 12 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1[a] | 0 | — | 13 | 0 | |||
| Total | 128 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 23 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 155 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 223 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 261 | 0 | ||
- 1 2 3 4 Appearances in Copa Sudamericana.
- ↑ Appearance in Torneo Intermedio final.
- 1 2 3 Appearances in Copa Libertadores.
- ↑ Nine appearances in Copa Libertadores, and two appearances in Copa Sudamericana.
- ↑ Appearance in Supercopa Paraguay.
International
- As of match played 27 March 2026
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Paraguay | 2026 | 1 | 0 |
| Total | 1 | 0 | |
Honours
Olimpia
- Copa Paraguay: 2021
- Supercopa Paraguay: 2021
- Paraguayan Primera División: 2022 Clausura, 2024 Clausura
Uruguay U22
Individual
- Uruguayan Primera División Team of the Year: 2019[11]
References
- ↑ "Sud America vs. River Plate – 19 April 2014 – Soccerway". int.soccerway.com. Retrieved 23 February 2019.
- ↑ "Olimpia presenta a su nuevo arquero, el uruguayo Gastón Olveira". Retrieved 10 February 2021.
- ↑ River Plate of Uruguay formalizes the continuity of Gastón Olveira in Olimpia, versus.lanacion.com.py, 31 December 2021
- ↑ "Panamericanos: definidos los 18". Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ↑ "Gastón Olveira convocado". Retrieved 12 October 2019.
- ↑ "Selección: Diego Alonso entregó la lista de 55 reservados para el Mundial de Catar" (in Spanish). 21 October 2022. Retrieved 21 October 2022.
- ↑ "Se confirmó la lista de convocados para la Copa Mundial de Catar 2022". 10 November 2022. Retrieved 7 August 2026.
- ↑ "Tras nacionalizarse, el uruguayo Gastón Olveira tendrá su debut en el arco de la selección de Paraguay en esta Fecha FIFA". El Observador.
- ↑ "Coupe du monde 2026: découvrez la liste des 26 joueurs du Paraguay avec Julio Enciso". RMC Sport (in French). 1 June 2026. Retrieved 13 June 2026.
- ↑ Gastón Olveira at Soccerway
- ↑ "Equipo Ideal del Campeonato Uruguayo 2019". 27 December 2019. Retrieved 23 December 2022.
External links
- Gastón Olveira at WorldFootball.net
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- 1993 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Montevideo
- Paraguayan men's footballers
- Paraguay men's international footballers
- Uruguayan men's footballers
- Uruguayan emigrants to Paraguay
- Paraguayan people of Uruguayan descent
- Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers
- Men's association football goalkeepers
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Uruguay
- Pan American Games footballers for Uruguay
- Footballers at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Pan American Games gold medalists in football
- Medalists at the 2015 Pan American Games
- Club Atlético River Plate (Montevideo) players
- Club Olimpia footballers
- Uruguayan Primera División players
- Paraguayan Primera División players
- Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Paraguay
- Expatriate men's footballers in Paraguay
- 2026 FIFA World Cup players