 Pereyra with River Plate in 2011 | ||||||||||||||
| Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Roberto Maximiliano Pereyra[1] | |||||||||||||
| Date of birth | 7 January 1991 | |||||||||||||
| Place of birth | San Miguel de Tucumán, Argentina | |||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)[2] | |||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Midfielder, forward | |||||||||||||
| Team information | ||||||||||||||
Current team | AEK Athens | |||||||||||||
| Number | 37 | |||||||||||||
| Youth career | ||||||||||||||
| River Plate | ||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||||
| 2008–2011 | River Plate | 43 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2011–2015 | Udinese | 84 | (8) | |||||||||||
| 2014–2015 | → Juventus (loan) | 35 | (4) | |||||||||||
| 2015–2016 | Juventus | 13 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2016–2020 | Watford | 106 | (16) | |||||||||||
| 2020–2024 | Udinese | 119 | (17) | |||||||||||
| 2024– | AEK Athens | 6 | (0) | |||||||||||
| International career‡ | ||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Argentina U20 | 4 | (0) | |||||||||||
| 2014–2019 | Argentina | 19 | (2) | |||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 21:30, 5 October 2024 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 10 October 2019 | ||||||||||||||
Roberto Maximiliano Pereyra (Spanish pronunciation: [roˈβeɾto peˈɾejɾa]; born 7 January 1991) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Greek Super League club AEK Athens. A versatile player, he is capable of playing a variety of positions such as on the wing, in central midfield, attacking midfield or as a second striker.[3]
After beginning his career in Argentina with River Plate, Pereyra joined Italian club Udinese in 2011, where his performances earned him a loan to defending league champions Juventus in 2014; he was signed permanently by The Old Lady in 2015 and won two consecutive Serie A titles during his time with the club. During his time in Italy, he developed into a well-rounded, adaptable, and tactically versatile player due to his dynamism, energy, and technique, as well as his offensive and defensive work-rate and attributes.[4] In 2016, he joined English Premier League club Watford.
At international level, Pereyra made his senior debut in 2014, and has since obtained over ten caps; he represented the Argentina national football team at two editions of the Copa América, winning a runners-up medal and a bronze medal in the 2015 and the 2019 editions of the tournament respectively.
- ^ "Squads for 2016/17 Premier League confirmed". premierleague.com. 1 September 2016. Retrieved 11 September 2016.
- ^ "Roberto Pereyra". juventus.com. Archived from the original on 3 February 2016.
- ^ Andrea Bracco (5 July 2011). "Roberto Pereyra, nuovi Zanetti crescono..." [Roberto Pereyra, new Zanettis are developing...] (in Italian). Calcio Sudamericano. Retrieved 11 June 2015.
- ^ "Pereyra, dinamismo e duttilità" [Pereyra, dynamism and versatility] (in Italian). Juventus FC. 25 July 2015. Archived from the original on 13 June 2015. Retrieved 11 June 2015.