Ignacio Don

In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Don and the second or maternal family name is Núñez.
Ignacio Don
Personal information
Full name Ignacio Óscar Don Núñez
Date of birth (1982-02-28) 28 February 1982 (age 42)
Place of birth Selva, Santiago del Estero, Argentina
Height 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in)[1]
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Youth career
Atlético Selva
Newell's Old Boys
Rosario Central
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
Belgrano San José – (–)
2005–2007 Nacional 45 (0)
2007 Huachipato 17 (0)
2008–2016 Nacional 120 (0)
2010 → Rubio Ñu (loan) 12 (0)
2016–2018 Cerro Porteño 7 (0)
2018–2019 Guaraní 20 (0)
2020–2021 Guaireña 39 (0)
2022 Libertad 1 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Ignacio Óscar Don Núñez (born 28 February 1982), also known as Nacho Don, is an Argentine-Paraguayan[2] former football goalkeeper.

Career

As a youth player, Don was with Atlético Selva, Newell's Old Boys and Rosario Central before starting his career with Belgrano de San José de La Esquina in the Argentine Liga Chañarense.[3]

In 2005, aged 22, Don moved to Paraguay and joined Nacional.[3] After two season in that club, in 2007, he moved to Chilean Primera División team Huachipato, directed by his countrymen Antonio Zaracho during that season, because he replaced to Arturo Salah in the bench, because he was signed by Chilean powerhouse Universidad de Chile. He had a six-months spell in Chile, playing 17 league games,[4] but Don finished as the second-choice goalkeeper Cristián Torralbo.

After an unnoticed pass at Huachipato,[5] he returned to Nacional for the 2008 season, team in where the following season, Don played the 2009 Copa Libertadores, his first international tournament, because the club's successful season. The following season, he won the Primera División title and again won the same title in the 2011 season.[6]

Don retired at the end of the 2022 season.[7]

Personal life

Don naturalized Paraguayan in 2014.[2]

Honours

Nacional

References

  1. ^ "Ignacio Don". livefutbol.com (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  2. ^ a b "El portero Ignacio Don ya está a disposición de la selección paraguaya tras recibir la nacionalidad". Cooperativa.cl (in Spanish). Radio Cooperativa. 15 September 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  3. ^ a b "La historia de un arquero que nunca se dio por vencido". Clarín (in Spanish). 6 August 2014. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  4. ^ Cuevas, Felipe (13 August 2014). "Arquero finalista de la Libertadores: "Me gustaría tener una revancha en Chile"". La Tercera (in Spanish). Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  5. ^ "10 jugadores que no sabías que estuvieron en Huachipato". La Pelota es Mía (in Spanish). 22 June 2020. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  6. ^ "Ignacio Don está y Candia entre otros en el plantel". www.abc.com.py (in Spanish). 27 December 2019. Retrieved 12 December 2024.
  7. ^ "Ignacio Don le puso fin a su carrera como futbolista profesional". El Liberal (in Spanish). 9 January 2023. Retrieved 12 December 2024.