Matías Oyola

Matías Oyola (born 15 October 1982 in Río Cuarto) is a retired Argentine born Ecuadorian naturalized football player that used to play as a central midfielder. For the majority of his over 20-year career, he spent it in Ecuador, becoming one of the most acclaimed and important players for Ecuadorian Serie A team Barcelona Sporting Club. Here he spent over 12 years, making him an outstanding fixture, the backbone of the team in the past decade and beginning of the current one for such football institution.

Matías Oyola
Personal information
Full name Matías Damián Oyola
Date of birth (1982-10-15) 15 October 1982
Place of birth Río Cuarto, Argentina
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)
Position(s) Center Midfielder
Youth career
River Plate
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2002–2007 River Plate 3 (0)
2003–2005 Defensores Belgrano (loan) 62 (8)
2005–2006 Gimnasia de Jujuy (loan) 26 (7)
2007 Belgrano (loan) 17 (3)
2007–2012 Independiente 20 (1)
2008–2009 Colón (loan) 31 (2)
2009–2012 Barcelona SC (loan) 119 (12)
2012–2021 Barcelona SC 241 (20)
2022 Guayaquil City
International career‡
2016–2017 Ecuador 7 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13 December 2015
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 31 August 2017

Club career

Oyola came through the youth system at River Plate, in 2003 he was loaned to Defensores de Belgrano of the Argentine 2nd division until 2005.

In 2005 Oyola spent a season with Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy before returning to River Plate in 2006. Oyola only made 3 first team appearances before his transfer to Belgrano de Córdoba in 2007.

At the end of the 2006–2007 season Belgrano were relegated and Oyola joined Independiente.

On 7 June 2009 "El Pony" joined the Ecuadorian giant Barcelona for the remainder of the season.

On 5 August 2009, Oyola scored his 1st goal with Barcelona from a splendid free kick.

International career

Oyola was born and raised in Argentina – but he transferred to Ecuador later in his career and got Ecuadorian citizenship. Boyola got his first call up to the senior Ecuador side for 2018 FIFA World Cup qualifiers against Chile and Bolivia in October 2016.[1] Oyola made his debut for Ecuador in a 2–2 tie with the latter, coming on as a sub in the 78th minute.[2]

Honors
Barcelona SC

References
  1. "Matías Oyola, novedad en la selección de Ecuador ante Chile y Bolivia". wradio.com.co. 26 September 2016. Retrieved 5 October 2016.
  2. "FIFA". Archived from the original on 19 August 2016.
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