Horacio Calcaterra

Horacio Calcaterra
	Calcaterra in 2023
Personal information
Full name	Horacio Martín Calcaterra
Date of birth	February 22, 1989 (age 35)
Place of birth	Santa Fe, Argentina
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s)	Attacking Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Universitario de Deportes
Number	10
Senior career*
Years	Team
2008–2010	Rosario Central
2011	Unión Comercio
2012	Universitario
2013–2022	Sporting Cristal
2023-	Universitario
International career‡
2018–	Peru
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:23, 13 November 2021 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:18, 23 March 2024 (UTC)

Horacio Martín Calcaterra (born 22 February 1989) is a footballer who plays as a midfielder for Peruvian Liga 1 club Universitario de Deportes.^[1] Born in Argentina, he plays for the Peru national team.

Club career

Calcaterra began his senior career with Rosario Central in the 2007–08 Argentine Primera División season.^[1] In January 2011, he joined the recently promoted Peruvian club Unión Comercio.^[1] He made his debut in the first game of the 2011 season in a 4–1 loss against Alianza Lima, in which Calcaterra scored a goal with an assist by Miguel Trauco.^[2] There he played under managers Hernán Lisi, who had requested his signing after training him in Rosario Central's reserve team,^[3] and later Julio César Uribe. He featured as a regular for Comercio, making 26 appearances with 4 goals during the season and contributing to his team qualifying for the first time to an international competition: the 2012 Copa Sudamericana.

On 20 January 2012, it was announced that Calcaterra had joined Universitario de Deportes.^[4] There, he played 34 matches and scored 7 goals. In 2013, he was signed by Sporting Cristal, and there, that same year, he disputed the Copa Libertadores for the first time. In 2014, Cristal won the national league with Calcaterra standing out in the team's midfield along Jorge Cazulo and Carlos Lobatón. In the third leg of that year's finals against Juan Aurich, he scored the 2–2 goal for Cristal which sent the game into extra time, where a goal by Edinson Chávez would finally win Cristal the game, and thus, the national title. On 15 November 2022, Cristal officially announced Calcaterra's departure after 10 seasons wearing the celeste shirt.^[5]

On 23 November 2022, Universitario de Deportes announced his return to the club, with a contract for three seasons.^[6] He played his first game in his second spell with Universitario on matchday 3, in a 4–0 victory against Academia Cantolao, and scored his first goal on matchday 11, in a 2–1 victory against Atlético Grau.^[7]

International career

Born in Argentina, Calcaterra was nationalized as a Peruvian. He represents the Peru national team since 2018.^[8]

Honours

Club

Sporting Cristal

Primera División: Torneo Descentralizado, 2014, 2016, 2018, 2020

Universitario de Deportes

References

^ ^a ^b ^c "Player -Horacio Calcaterra". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
^ "Alianza Lima 4-1 Unión Comercio". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
^ Peña, Kenyi (23 August 2018). "Horacio Calcaterra: "Por Internet me enteré que en Moyobamba se jugaba en canchas de barro"" [Horacio Calcaterra: "On the internet, I found out that in Moyobamba one played in mud fields"]. El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 April 2024.
^ "Argentino Horacio Calcaterra llegó para ponerse la 10 de la 'U'". elcomercio.pe. Retrieved 18 April 2012.
^ "Horacio Calcaterra se va de Sporting Cristal: la despedida de los celestes al volante" [Horacio Calcaterra leaves Sporting Cristal: the farewell of the "celestes" to the midfielder]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 15 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2023.
^ Galiano, Renzo (23 November 2023). "Horacio Calcaterra regresa a la 'U' tras una década" [Horacio Calcaterra returns to "la U" after a decade]. AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 November 2023.
^ Solís, Miguel (9 April 2023). "Horacio Calcaterra anotó su primer gol de manera inesperada con Universitario ante Atlético Grau por Liga 1" [Horacio Calcaterra scored his first goal in an unexpected way with Universitario against Atlético Grau on the Liga 1]. Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 April 2024.
^ "Horacio Calcaterra es la gran novedad en convocatoria de la selección". 18 August 2018.

External links

Horacio Calcaterra at Soccerway
Horacio Calcaterra at National-Football-Teams.com

[footballdatabase-1] "Player -Horacio Calcaterra". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 18 April 2012.

[2] "Alianza Lima 4-1 Unión Comercio". footballdatabase.eu. Retrieved 18 April 2012.

[3] Peña, Kenyi (23 August 2018). "Horacio Calcaterra: "Por Internet me enteré que en Moyobamba se jugaba en canchas de barro"" [Horacio Calcaterra: "On the internet, I found out that in Moyobamba one played in mud fields"]. El Comercio (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 April 2024.

[4] "Argentino Horacio Calcaterra llegó para ponerse la 10 de la 'U'". elcomercio.pe. Retrieved 18 April 2012.

[5] "Horacio Calcaterra se va de Sporting Cristal: la despedida de los celestes al volante" [Horacio Calcaterra leaves Sporting Cristal: the farewell of the "celestes" to the midfielder]. El Comercio (in Spanish). 15 November 2022. Retrieved 16 November 2023.

[6] Galiano, Renzo (23 November 2023). "Horacio Calcaterra regresa a la 'U' tras una década" [Horacio Calcaterra returns to "la U" after a decade]. AS (in Spanish). Retrieved 16 November 2023.

[7] Solís, Miguel (9 April 2023). "Horacio Calcaterra anotó su primer gol de manera inesperada con Universitario ante Atlético Grau por Liga 1" [Horacio Calcaterra scored his first goal in an unexpected way with Universitario against Atlético Grau on the Liga 1]. Infobae (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 April 2024.

[8] "Horacio Calcaterra es la gran novedad en convocatoria de la selección". 18 August 2018.

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