Gerónimo Beato (born 10 November 1995 in

Montevideo Montevideo (, ; ) is the capital city, capital and List of cities in Uruguay, largest city of Uruguay. According to the 2023 census, the city proper has a population of 1,302,954 (about 37.2% of the country's total population) in an area of . M ...

) is an Uruguayan

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. He is the son of Vito Beato, who is a football manager.

Club career

Born in

, Beato started in the youth levels of River Plate Montevideo. In March 2014, he travelled to

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to try luck on

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side Ripa La Fenadora. He could not play much after suffering a long injury and he left the club after finishing his contract, staying a long time without playing. Later, he went to

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signing with

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. He did not have minutes in the first team and remained some months till he finally returned to

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to defend his father's coaching team

Villa Teresa Club Atlético Villa Teresa, is a Uruguayan football and cycling team club based in Montevideo. It was founded in 1941. History In 2011 Villa Teresa achieved promotion from Segunda División Amateur (third level) and returned to the Professi ...

which had just promoted to Uruguayan Top Division. After one year at

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, Beato returned to

in 2019.Villa Teresa: Dos nuevas altas…
elascenso.com, 26 March 2019

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* * 1995 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Uruguayan men's footballers Uruguayan expatriate men's footballers Club Atlético River Plate (Montevideo) players FC Lugano players Villa Teresa players Huracán F.C. players Uruguayan Primera División players Uruguayan Segunda División players Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Switzerland Uruguayan expatriate sportspeople in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Switzerland Expatriate men's footballers in Italy 21st-century Uruguayan sportsmen Footballers from Montevideo {{Uruguay-footy-midfielder-1990s-stub