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| Federico Almerares (born 2 May 1985 in Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires Province) is an Argentine former footballer who played as striker or centre forward.
Almerares came through the ranks at Club Atlético River Plate and made his debut in 2003, but never established himself in the first team, only making three appearances between 2005 and March 2008 when he went on trial with Swedish Allsvenskan club Djurgårdens IF. The trial with the Stockholm club was unsuccessful, but he did gather attention from several other European clubs including R.S.C. Anderlecht and FK Austria Wien.
On 8 August 2008, he signed for Swiss side FC Basel. He joined Basel's first team for their 2008–09 season under head coach Christian Gross. In his first season Almerares played mainly for the Basel U-21 team in the Promotion League, in the third tier of Swiss football, but he also played in various test matches for the first team. He played his domestic league debut for the club in the home game in the St. Jakob-Park on 7 March 2009 as Basel won 3–1 against FC Aarau. Almerares was substituted in the 62nd minute for Orhan Mustafi. At the end of the 2008–09 Super League season Basel were third in the table, seven points behind new champions Zürich and one adrift of runners-up Young Boys. In the 2008–09 Swiss Cup Basel advanced via Schötz, Bulle, Thun and Zurich to the semi-finals. Wikipedia text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License - Full article |
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