Francisco Castro (footballer, born 1990)

{{Infobox football biography

| name = Francisco Castro

| image = FranciscoCastroCobreloa.jpg

| image_size = 200px

| caption =

| fullname = Francisco Fernando Castro Gamboa

| height = {{height|m=1.75}}

| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1990|9|4}}

| birth_place = Talagante, Santiago, Chile

| currentclub = Iberia

| clubnumber = 33

| position = Winger

| youthyears1 = 2005–2009

| youthclubs1 = Cobreloa

| years1 = 2009–2010

| years2 = 2010–2016

| years3 = 2013

| years4 = 2014–2015

| years5 = 2016–2017

| years6 = 2017

| years7 = 2018

| years8 = 2018

| years9 = 2019

| years10 = 2020

| years11 = 2021

| years12 = 2021–

| clubs1 = Cobreloa

| clubs2 = Universidad de Chile

| clubs3 = → Unión Española (loan)

| clubs4 = → Deportes Iquique (loan)

| clubs5 = Deportes Antofagasta

| clubs6 = Barnechea

| clubs7 = Unión La Calera

| clubs8 = Cobresal

| clubs9 = Santiago Wanderers

| clubs10 = Barnechea

| clubs11 = Cobreloa

| clubs12 = Iberia

| caps1 = 36

| caps2 = 77

| caps3 = 31

| caps4 = 31

| caps5 = 11

| caps6 = 13

| caps7 = 11

| caps8 = 20

| caps9 = 11

| caps10 = 14

| caps11 = 10

| caps12 = 6

| goals1 = 2

| goals2 = 15

| goals3 = 4

| goals4 = 6

| goals5 = 0

| goals6 = 3

| goals7 = 1

| goals8 = 2

| goals9 = 1

| goals10 = 2

| goals11 = 1

| goals12 = 3

| nationalyears1 = 2010

| nationalteam1 = Chile

| nationalcaps1 = 2

| nationalgoals1 = 0

| pcupdate = 18 January 2022

| ntupdate =

}}

Francisco Fernando Castro Gamboa (born 4 September 1990 in Talagante, Chile) is a Chilean footballer who plays for Deportes Iberia in the Segunda División Profesional de Chile as a winger.{{Cite tweet |user=redgol |number=1443675405718720529 |title=Luis Fuentes y Francisco Castro dejan Cobreloa |language=es |date=30 September 2021 |access-date=4 October 2021 }}

Career

In 2009 Castro ascended to the first team of Cobreloa, after playing 4 years on the youth club.{{Cite web |url=http://www.mercuriocalama.cl/prontus4_nots/site/artic/20090228/pags/20090228000717.html |title="Nadie soltará el puesto así como así" |access-date=2010-08-12 |archive-date=2011-09-27 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110927084831/http://www.mercuriocalama.cl/prontus4_nots/site/artic/20090228/pags/20090228000717.html |url-status=dead }} On August 11, 2010 he signed with Universidad de Chile with a free agent after leaving Cobreloa on his own,[http://www.prensafutbol.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15336:pollo-en-fuga-francisco-castro-se-autodespidio-de-cobreloa&catid=88:cobreloa&Itemid=123 Francisco Castro se autodespidió de Cobreloa] but after claims of the ANFP and Cobreloa the player didn't sign a contract with Universidad de Chile, and he returned to Cobreloa. On August 18, Castro finally signed with Universidad de Chile after negotiations with Cobreloa, acquiring the 65% of the player, on 250.000 US dollars.[http://www.prensafutbol.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=15856:asunto-resuleto-francisco-castro-es-jugador-de-la-u&catid=76:u-de-chile&Itemid=117 Asunto resuelto: Francisco Castro será jugador de la 'U'] He scored his first goal with La U in a match against Unión San Felipe, for the 2011 Copa Chile. He was the top-scorer of La U in the 2011 Torneo de Clausura with 8 goals.