Alejandro "El Negro" Martinuccio (born 16 December 1987 in

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) is an Argentine

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who plays as a striker. He currently plays for

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Career

Nueva Chicago

Martinuccio made his debut at

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in 2008 and after a remarkable individual performance with his team in the

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was transferred to

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an club C.A. Peñarol.

Peñarol

Martinuccio helped Peñarol reach the 2011 Copa Libertadores Finals, in which Peñarol lost to Brazil's Santos. He had thirteen appearances and scored 2 goals in the competition.

Fluminense

After a good display of football in the

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, Fluminense signed Martinuccio in July 2011.

Villarreal

Martinuccio joined

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in January 2012 in a loan deal. He scored his first goal for the club against

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on March 4.

Cruzeiro

In July 2012, Cruzeiro signed Martinuccio on a one-year loan from Fluminense. He stayed there for another year until mid-2014 and won the 2013 Brazilian Série A and the 2014

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. Although, due to injuries he could never establish himself in the team and returned to Fluminense.

Coritiba

In June 2014 Martinuccio was loaned one more time, on this occasion to another Brazilian club, Coritiba. Once again he struggled with injuries.

Chapecoense

Without playing since November 2014 Chapecoense signed Alejandro on 30 April 2016. Martinuccio failed in medical exams at Ponte Preta before agreeing with Chapecoense. He had a chance to return to football after a series of serious injuries and surgeries on both legs. Because of a new injury, Martinuccio missed the ill-fated team flight which crashed near

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, where 71 people died.

Career statistics

Club

Honours

;Peñarol * Campeonato Uruguayo: 2009–10 ;Cruzeiro *

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: 2014

Chapecoense plane crash

On 28 November 2016, many of his current teammates at Chapecoense were involved in a plane crash, which killed most of the squad (17 died instantly after crash and two more a few hours later in hospital at

). Martuniccio was not on the plane as he had been dropped from the team for the first final game against

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for the

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, due to an injury.

References

External links

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