Richard Hernán Schunke (born 26 November 1991) is an

Argentine Argentines, Argentinians or Argentineans are people from Argentina. This connection may be residential, legal, historical, or cultural. For most Argentines, several (or all) of these connections exist and are collectively the source of their ...

professional

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who plays as a

centre-back In the sport of association football, a defender is an outfield player whose primary role is to stop attacks during the game and prevent the opposition from scoring. Defenders fall into four main categories: centre-backs, full-backs, sweepers ...

for

Independiente del Valle Club de Alto Rendimiento Especializado Independiente del Valle, known simply as Independiente del Valle, is a professional football club based in Sangolquí Ecuador that currently plays in the Ecuadorian Serie A. Founded in 1958, the club plays ...

Career

As a youth player, Schunke played as a goalkeeper, midfielder, and forward, before becoming a defender. Schunke started his career with Argentine third division side Almagro, where he made 145 league appearances and scored 8 goals. Before the 2018 season, he signed for Ecuadorian top flight side

, helping them win the

2019 Copa Sudamericana The 2019 Copa CONMEBOL Sudamericana was the 18th edition of the CONMEBOL Sudamericana (also referred to as the ''Copa Sudamericana'', or ), South America's secondary club football tournament organized by CONMEBOL. Ecuadorian club Independiente d ...

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* * 1991 births Living people Argentine men's footballers Footballers from Posadas, Misiones Argentine people of German descent Men's association football central defenders Ecuadorian Serie A players Primera Nacional players Primera B Metropolitana players Club Almagro players C.D. Cuenca footballers Independiente del Valle footballers Copa Sudamericana–winning players Argentine expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Ecuador 21st-century Argentine sportsmen {{Argentina-footy-defender-1990s-stub