Gastón Montero

Not to be confused with Alejo Montero.

Gastón Montero

Personal information
Full name	Gastón Eduardo Montero
Date of birth	(1986-03-23) 23 March 1986 (age 38)
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s)	Left-back[1]
Team information
Current team	Almirante Brown
Youth career
	Vélez Sarsfield
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2007	Vélez Sarsfield	5	(0)
2008	Gimnasia y Esgrima	10	(0)
2009	Los Andes	16	(2)
2009	San Martín SJ	1	(0)
2010	San Martín T.	11	(0)
2010–2011	Platense	19	(0)
2011–2014	Estudiantes	91	(3)
2014	Deportivo Morón	17	(0)
2015–2020	Deportivo Riestra	142	(4)
2020	Almirante Brown	3	(0)
2021	Deportivo Riestra	11	(1)
2022–	Almirante Brown	2	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 19:30, 8 June 2022 (UTC)

Gastón Eduardo Montero (born 23 March 1986) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Almirante Brown.[2]

Career

Montero started his career with Primera División side Vélez Sarsfield.[3] After five top-flight appearances for the club, Montero moved across the division in 2008 to Gimnasia y Esgrima.[3] He participated in five fixtures in both the 2007–08 and 2008–09 campaigns.[2][3] Montero departed midway through the latter, signing for Los Andes of Primera B Nacional.[4] He scored on his debut for them, netting in a 3–2 victory over Defensa y Justicia on 13 February 2009.[2][5] A further goal against Instituto arrived in eighteen total appearances.[2] Montero split his time in 2009–10 with San Martín namesakes from San Juan and San Miguel de Tucumán.[2]

After spending twelve months with Platense in Primera B Metropolitana, Montero completed a move to Estudiantes on 13 July 2011.[2][3][6] His first goal for them came in a 1–1 draw on 14 October 2012 with Brown, a fixture that also saw him sent off in stoppage time.[2] Deportivo Morón became Montero's eighth team in mid-2014, though the defender would depart in the succeeding January to fellow third tier outfit Deportivo Riestra.[2][7] Eighty-seven matches and three goals came across 2015, 2016 and 2016–17, with the latter concluding with promotion via the play-offs; though they were subsequently relegated back after one season.[8][9]

After one hundred and fifty-one appearances and four goals in five years with Riestra, Montero departed in August 2020 to Almirante Brown; reuniting with Jorge Benítez, who managed Montero at Riestra between July 2016 and September 2018.[10][11]

Career statistics

As of 30 August 2020.[2][1][3]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			Cup		League Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Vélez Sarsfield	2006–07	Primera División	0	0	0	0	—		1[a]	0	0	0	1	0
	2007–08		5	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	5	0
	Total		5	0	0	0	—		1	0	0	0	6	0
Gimnasia y Esgrima	2007–08	Primera División	5	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	5	0
	2008–09		5	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	5	0
	Total		10	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	10	0
Los Andes	2008–09	Primera B Nacional	16	2	0	0	—		—		2[b]	0	18	2
San Martín (SJ)	2009–10		1	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	1	0
San Martín (T)			11	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	11	0
Platense	2010–11	Primera B Metropolitana	19	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	19	0
Estudiantes	2011–12		23	1	1	0	—		—		0	0	24	1
	2012–13		33	2	4	0	—		—		0	0	37	2
	2013–14		35	0	6	0	—		—		0	0	41	0
	Total		91	3	11	0	—		—		0	0	102	3
Deportivo Morón	2014	Primera B Metropolitana	17	0	0	0	—		—		1[b]	0	18	0
Deportivo Riestra	2015		35	2	3	0	—		—		0	0	38	2
	2016		17	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	17	0
	2016–17		28	1	1	0	—		—		3[b]	0	32	1
	2017–18	Primera B Nacional	13	1	1	0	—		—		0	0	14	1
	2018–19	Primera B Metropolitana	30	0	1	0	—		—		0	0	31	0
	2019–20	Primera B Nacional	19	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	19	0
	Total		142	4	6	0	—		—		3	0	151	4
Almirante Brown	2020–21	Primera B Metropolitana	0	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	0	0
Career total			312	9	17	0	—		1	0	6	0	336	9

1. Appearance(s) in the Copa Libertadores
2. Appearance(s) in the Primera B Metropolitana play-offs

References

1. "Gastón Montero". World Football. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
2. "Argentina - G. Montero". Soccerway. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
3. "Ficha Estadistica de GASTON MONTERO". BDFA. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
4. "Los refuerzos del plantel: Gastón Montero y Walte". Los Andes. 14 January 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
5. "Montero cree en la "mentalidad ganadora" del "Milrayitas"". AUNO. 12 February 2009. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
6. "Carta abierta a Gastón Montero". Platense a lo Ancho. 8 April 2011. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
7. "Firmó Gastón Montero". Mundo Ascenso. 23 February 2015. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
8. "Deportivo Riestra: "La visita de Maradona es única"". Vermouth Deportivo. 12 February 2017. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
9. "Montero:"Queríamos festejar hoy y nos quedamos con las ganas"". Mundo Ascenso. 3 May 2019. Retrieved 2 June 2019.
10. "Gastón Montero, otro conocido del Morrón Benítez que llega al Mirasol". El1Digital. 20 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.
11. "Gastón Montero: "Hay un grupo ya armado y eso es lo bueno"". El1Digital. 24 August 2020. Retrieved 30 August 2020.

External links

• Gastón Montero at Soccerway