Alejandro Javier Larrea (born 5 December 1966) is a Uruguayan professional

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and former player who played as a forward. He is the current manager of Progreso.

Career

Larrea earned two caps for

Uruguay national football team The Uruguay national football team (), nicknamed ''La Celeste'' ("The Sky Blue") and ''Los Charrúas'' ("The Charrúa, Charrúas"), have represented Uruguay in international men's Association football, football since their first international m ...

in 1992. On 21 June 1992, he made his debut and scored his first goal in a 2–0 win over

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. He played another match on 4 July 1992 in a 3–1 win over

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. In July 1999, Larrea transferred to

Chinese Jia-A League The National Football Jia A League (simplified Chinese: 全国足球甲A联赛), commonly known as Jia-A, was the highest tier of professional football in the People's Republic of China, during 1994 through 2003, operating under the auspices of th ...

side

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. On 25 July 1999, he scored his first goal in China in a 3–3 away draw against Shenyang Haishi. He joined Chinese second-tier club Guangzhou Geely in April 2001. On 5 May, he made his debut for Guangzhou and scored his first goal in a 1–1 away draw against Jiangsu Sainty. Larrea joined another Jia-A League club Tianjin Teda, which was then coached by Uruguayan manager Nelson Agresta, on 28 July 2001. He left the club in August, playing just two FA Cup matches for Tianjin in the two legs of the third round of 2001 Chinese FA Cup. On 23 December 2013, Larrea was appointed as the assistant coach of Nelson Agresta for

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club Hebei Zhongji. He became the caretaker manager of the club for the rest of the season on 11 August 2014 after Agresta was sacked. On 24 August 2015, Larrea was hired to serve as Óscar Ramírez's assistant in the

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References

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