Marcelo Barovero

Marcelo Barovero

Personal information
Full name	Marcelo Alberto Barovero
Date of birth	February 18, 1984 (1984-02-18) (age 27)
Place of birth	Porteña, Córdoba, Argentina
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Playing position	Goalkeeper
Club information
Current club	Vélez Sársfield
Number	1
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2003–2007	Atlético de Rafaela	113	(0)
2007–2008	Huracán	38	(0)
2008–	Vélez Sársfield	66	(0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 20:59, 23 October 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals).

Marcelo Alberto Barovero (born 18 February 1984) is an Argentine football goalkeeper who plays for Vélez Sársfield in the Argentine Primera División.

Career

Barovero started his professional career in 2003 playing for Atlético de Rafaela in the Primera B Nacional (Argentine second division). In his first season, the club won the championship and promotion to the Primera División. Barovero was used as the club's third choice goalkeeper in the first division, behind Ángel David Comizzo and Ezequiel Medrán. Rafaela was relegated at the end of the 2003–04 season, but Barovero stayed with the club and established himself as the first choice goalkeeper back in the B Nacional. He totalled 113 appearances for Atlético de Rafaela, before his move to Huracán (of the first division) in 2007.

In 2008, after one season as a starter in Huracán, Barovero was bought by Vélez Sársfield to compete with Germán Montoya for the position of first choice goalkeeper. During the 2009 Clausura he was part of the Vélez team that won the championship, being an unused substitute during the tournament.

He eventually caught his break during the 2010 Apertura, during which he started in all but three games of his team's runner-up campaign.^[1] He finished the tournament with only 6 goals conceded in 16 games, and kept a clean sheet in 12 of the games. At the end of the tournament, he was awarded the Ubaldo Matildo Fillol Award for being the goalkeeper with the lowest goals-to-games ratio.^[2][3] The following semester, Barovero started in all 19 games of Vélez 2011 Clausura winning campaign,^[4] and all 12 of the team's Copa Libertadores semifinalist campaign.

Honours

Club

Atlético Rafaela

• Primera B Nacional (1): 2002–03

Vélez Sársfield

• Argentine Primera División (2): 2009 Clausura, 2011 Clausura

Individual

• Ubaldo Fillol Award (2): 2010 Apertura, 2011 Clausura (both with Vélez Sársfield)

References

1. ^ "Opening '10 statistics". Argentine Soccer. http://www.argentinesoccer.com/player_apps.cfm?id=brvr&Championship=ap10&Team=vel. Retrieved 2010-12-14. 
2. ^ Ubaldo Fillol (2010-12-14). "Marcelo Barovero: ganador del Premio Ubaldo Fillol a la valla menos vencida" (in Spanish). UbaldoFillol.com. http://www.ubaldofillol.com/notas-nota.php?id_nota=585. Retrieved 2010-12-14. 
3. ^ "Barovero el mejor del Apertura" (in Spanish). Club Atlético Vélez Sársfield. 2010-12-14. http://www.velezsarsfield.com.ar/futbol/notas/2010/12/14/161132.html. Retrieved 2010-12-14. 
4. ^ "Closing '11 statistics". Argentine Soccer. http://www.argentinesoccer.com/player_apps.cfm?id=brvr&championship=cl11&team=vel. Retrieved 2011-06-20. 

External links

• Profile at Vélez Sársfield's official website (Spanish)
• Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (Spanish)
• Statistics at Irish Times

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Name	Barovero, Marcelo
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Date of birth	18 February 1984
Place of birth	Porteña, Argentina
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