Raúl Octavio Rivero Falero (born 24 January 1992), known as Octavio Rivero, is a Uruguayan footballer who plays as a striker for Chilean Primera División side

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Career

Beginnings and Uruguay teams

Rivero began his playing career at local club Huracán de Treinta y Tres, where despite being a striker he also played as an attacking midfielder. In 2008, he moved to Montevideo to play for

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and remained on the club's youth program for four years. He joined

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in 2012, where his professional career began, and debuted for the first team in a game against Danubio. In his first season as a professional he played 16 games as a starter and finished the championship with three goals. For the next championship he was transferred to Rentistas and begins the most successful cycle of his career as the top scorer of the club with 10 goals and is one of the principal figures of the team finishing the season as one of the top scorers of the Uruguayan Clausura 2014 helping Rentistas qualify to the Copa Sudamericana 2014.

O'Higgins

His great performances with Rentistas led him to sign for Chilean Champion O'Higgins in 2014, where he scored 10 goals in 16 matches, being one of the best players of the Chilean championship.

Vancouver Whitecaps FC

Rivero's success at O'Higgins attracted the interest of

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of Major League Soccer who signed Rivero as a young

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on 25 December 2014. He scored his first goal for the Whitecaps on his debut, against

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, giving Vancouver a 1–0 lead, but they ended up losing the game 3–1. Rivero followed up on his goal with an 86th-minute winner away at Chicago Fire to earn his team a 1–0 win. Rivero continued his impressive goal scoring form to start his Whitecaps career with his third goal in three games, this time another game winner deep into second half stoppage time away at Orlando City SC, again to earn his team a 1–0 win. After scoring three goals in four games, Rivero was named MLS Player of the Month for the month of March 2015. On 4 April, his fifth game with Vancouver, he temporarily took over the league lead in goals with four goals in five games after scoring his team's second goal in a 2–0 win over the LA Galaxy. After that Rivero scored another goal against the

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in a 2–2 draw earning him a league-leading five goals in six games for the Whitecaps. On 6 July 2016, Rivero completed a transfer to

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on the same day that the Chilean club's coaching staff resigned.

Santos Laguna

Rivero joined Liga MX team

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on a loan in January 2020.

Unión Española

After being a

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during 2022, he joined

for the second half of the

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* * {{DEFAULTSORT:Rivero, Octavio 1992 births Living people People from Treinta y Tres Uruguayan footballers Uruguayan expatriate footballers Central Español players C.A. Rentistas players O'Higgins F.C. footballers Vancouver Whitecaps FC players Colo-Colo footballers Atlas F.C. footballers Club Nacional de Football players Santos Laguna footballers Unión La Calera footballers Unión Española footballers Uruguayan Primera División players Chilean Primera División players Major League Soccer players Liga MX players Designated Players (MLS) Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Chile Expatriate footballers in Chile Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Canada Expatriate soccer players in Canada Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Expatriate footballers in Mexico Uruguay youth international footballers Association football forwards