Fabricio Fuentes

Fabricio Fuentes (born October 13 1976 in Río Cuarto, Córdoba, Córdoba Province (Argentina)) is an Argentina Football (soccer) Defender (football) currently playing for Villarreal CF in Spain.

Club career

Fuentes began his career playing for Newell's Old Boys in 1997, he left the club for a season with Quilmes Atlético Club in the Primera B Nacional before rejoining Newell's in 1998.

In 2001 Fuentes was signed for his first spell at Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield. In 2003 he went to France club En Avant Guingamp, but he didn't settle and returned to Vélez later that year.

In 2005 Fuentes was part of the Vélez Sársfield team that won the Argentine Primera Clausura Tournament. On the back of this success he was signed by Mexico club CF Atlas, but he only stayed one season before moving again, this time to his current club Villarreal CF.

By moving to Villarreal he joined up with former Vélez team mate Leandro Somoza and fellow Argentines Juan Román Riquelme, Rodolfo Arruabarrena, Mariano Barbosa and Gonzalo Javier Rodríguez.

He played for the Argentina national football team against Mexico in 2005.

He also has Italian passport.

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