Facundo Oreja
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| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Facundo Julián Oreja | ||
| Date of birth | 14 June 1982 | ||
| Place of birth | Mar del Plata, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.69 m (5 ft 6+1⁄2 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Right-back[2] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Aldosivi (caretaker) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2008 | Aldosivi | 151 | (2) |
| 2008–2009 | Nueva Chicago | 33 | (1) |
| 2009–2011 | San Martín | 52 | (2) |
| 2011–2012 | Ferro Carril Oeste | 36 | (0) |
| 2012–2019 | Gimnasia y Esgrima | 196 | (3) |
| 2019–2020 | Barracas Central | 7 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2020–2021 | Círculo Deportivo | ||
| 2022 | Unión La Calera (assistant) | ||
| 2022–2023 | Independiente del Valle (assistant) | ||
| 2024–2025 | Cruz Azul (assistant) | ||
| 2025 | Porto (assistant) | ||
| 2026– | Aldosivi (reserves) | ||
| 2026– | Aldosivi (caretaker) | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Facundo Julián Oreja (born 14 June 1982) is an Argentine football coach and former player who played as a right-back.[1] He is the current caretaker manager of Aldosivi.
Aldosivi were Oreja's first club, which he played for from 2002 to 2008 and scored two goals in one hundred and fifty-one appearances in Torneo Argentino A and Primera B Nacional.[3] In 2008, Oreja signed for Primera B Metropolitana side Nueva Chicago.[3] He went on to feature thirty-three times and score one goal (vs. Brown) as Nueva Chicago finished 2nd in 2008–09.[3] Further moves to San Martín and Ferro Carril Oeste in Primera B Nacional followed between 2009 and 2012, during which time he made a total of eighty-eight appearances along with two goals.[1] On 5 July 2012, Oreja joined fellow Primera B Nacional side Gimnasia y Esgrima.[1]
He played in thirty-six fixtures in his first season with Gimnasia y Esgrima, 2012–13, which concluded with promotion to the Argentine Primera División.[1][4][5] In the Primera División, Oreja featured one hundred and twenty-one times for the club across his first five seasons in Argentina's top-flight.[1] On 23 June 2019, after two hundred and twenty-one appearances for the La Plata club, Oreja agreed to depart by penning a contract with Barracas Central of Primera B Nacional.[6][7] He left the club by the end of his contract in the summer 2020.[8]