Carlos González (footballer, born 1993)

Carlos González
	Gonzalez with Club Tijuana in 2023
Personal information
Full name	Carlos Gabriel González Espínola
Date of birth	4 February 1993 (age 31)
Place of birth	Villarrica, Paraguay
Height	1.83 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Forward
Team information
Current team	Tijuana
Number	32
Youth career
2009–2012	Nacional
Senior career*
Years	Team
2013–2014	Magallanes
2015	Santiago Wanderers
2015–2016	San Marcos
2016–2017	Huachipato
2017–2018	Necaxa
2018–2020	UNAM
2021–2022	Tigres UANL
2022–2023	Toluca
2023–	Tijuana
International career‡
2019–	Paraguay
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:23, 25 April 2023 (UTC); ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 7 de September de 2023

Carlos Gabriel González Espínola (born 4 February 1993) is a Paraguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Liga MX club Tijuana and the Paraguay national team.

Club career

Born in Villarrica, Paraguay, he started his career in Nacional Asunción youth set-up aged 16. However, in the 2013 summer González joined Chilean club Magallanes of the second-tier.^[1] At the Carabeleros he was two-times Primera B goalscorer with twelve goals (2013-14 and 2014-15).^{[citation needed]}

In 2015, he joined Chilean first-tier club Santiago Wanderers to replace Roberto Gutiérrez (team’s goalscorer the last season) who left the Valparaíso-based side for powerhouse Universidad Católica.^[2] After an irregular start only playing 10 games and not scoring goals, he scored his first in a 2015 Copa Chile match against San Luis Quillota netting the game’s first goal in a 1–1 draw.^[3]

International career

On 2 March 2019, González received a call-up to the Paraguay national team from Eduardo Berizzo ahead of that month's friendlies with Peru and Mexico.^[4] He made his debut for Paraguay on 26 March 2019 in a friendly against Mexico, as a starter.^[5]

Honours

Necaxa

Copa MX: Clausura 2018

References

^ "Me considero el mejor cabeceador del fútbol chileno". Magallanes Official Web Site. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
^ "Santiago Wanderers suma a paraguayo Carlos González". AS Chile. AS. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
^ "Copa Chile: Santiago Wanderers cedió empate 1-1 ante San Luis en Valparaíso". ESPN. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015.
^ "23 albirrojos de clubes del exterior para amistosos vs. Perú y México". APF. 2 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.
^ "Mexico v Paraguay game report". ESPN. 26 March 2019.

External links

Carlos González at Soccerway
Carlos González at BDFA (in Spanish)
Carlos González at Liga MX (archive) (in Spanish)
Carlos González at Soccerway
Carlos González at National-Football-Teams.com

[1] "Me considero el mejor cabeceador del fútbol chileno". Magallanes Official Web Site. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

[2] "Santiago Wanderers suma a paraguayo Carlos González". AS Chile. AS. 27 January 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

[3] "Copa Chile: Santiago Wanderers cedió empate 1-1 ante San Luis en Valparaíso". ESPN. 8 July 2015. Retrieved 29 July 2015.

[APF-4] "23 albirrojos de clubes del exterior para amistosos vs. Perú y México". APF. 2 March 2019. Retrieved 4 March 2019.

[5] "Mexico v Paraguay game report". ESPN. 26 March 2019.

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