Carlos Galván

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Carlos Galván

Personal information
Full name	Carlos Alberto Galván
Date of birth	(1973-10-28) October 28, 1973
Place of birth	Pontevedra, Argentina
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Centre-back, Sweeper
Team information
Current team	Sport Loreto (Head coach)
Youth career
	Racing Club
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
1992–1998	Racing Club	115	(2)
1998–2000	Atlético Mineiro	34	(2)
2000–2002	Santos	20	(1)
2002–2003	Lanús	63	(2)
2004	Ciudad de Murcia	4	(0)
2004	Paysandu	7	(0)
2004–2005	Argentinos Juniors	36	(1)
2005–2006	Olimpia	?	(?)
2006–2007	Banfield	33	(1)
2007–2012	Universitario de Deportes	150	(8)
2012–2014	UCV	36	(0)
Managerial career
2013–2014	UCV (assistant)
2014	UCV
2014–2015	UCV (youth)
2015	Willy Serrato
2016	Comerciantes Unidos (assistant)
2016–2017	Willy Serrato
2017	Los Caimanes
2018	Sport Loreto
2018	Deportivo Hualgayoc
2018	Sport Rosario (assistant)
2019	Chavelines Juniors
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Carlos Alberto Galván (born 28 October 1973 in Pontevedra, Buenos Aires) is an Argentine retired footballer who played as a defender and football coach.

Club career

Galván started his career at Racing Club de Avellaneda in 1992, before moving to Brazil in 1998 to play for Clube Atlético Mineiro.

In Brazil he was seen as a skilled defender. His technique was at its best when playing as a sweeper. He scored some key goals. He has a powerful header and sense for positioning.

Among other titles, he won the Minas Gerais state with Atlético Minero. He was also in the Atlético Minero side that were runners-up in the Brazilian Championship in 1999 and with Santos in 2000 when they won the São Paulo State Championship. He played for two years at each team in Brazil. In 1998, with Atlético, he has involved in a fight at Vitória's stadium, where he was one of four players from each side sent off. He also scored an own goal at Vila Belmiro, in a 2–0 defeat against Santos' biggest rivals, Corinthians. He also played for Paysandu, in 2004.

Galván returned to Argentina in 2002 to play for Club Atlético Lanús and in 2004 he had a brief spell with Ciudad de Murcia in Spain. He has also played for Club Olimpia in Paraguay and Argentinos Juniors in Argentina.

In 2007 Galván joined Peruvian team Universitario de Deportes, in February 2009 he announced that he plans to retire in December 2010 to take up a position as a youth coach with the club.

Honours

Club

Atlético Mineiro

• Campeonato Mineiro (2): 1999, 2000

Santos FC

• Campeonato Brasileiro Série A (1): 2002

Universitario de Deportes

• Torneo Apertura 2008 (1): 2008
• Primera División Peruana (1): 2009

External links

• Carlos Galván at ESPN FC
• Argentine Primera statistics at the Wayback Machine (archived 2012-02-17) (in Spanish)