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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Francisco Gabriel Ortega [1] | ||
| Date of birth | 19 March 1999 | ||
| Place of birth | Santa Rosa de Lima, Santa Fe, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.77 m (5 ft 10 in) [2] | ||
| Position | Left-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Olympiacos | ||
| Number | 3 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2013–2017 | Velez Sarsfield | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2017–2023 | Velez Sarsfield | 84 | (3) |
| 2023– | Olympiacos | 55 | (1) |
| International career | |||
| 2018–2019 | Argentina U20 | 12 | (0) |
| 2019–2021 | Argentina U23 | 5 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 9 November 2025 (UTC) | |||
Francisco Gabriel Ortega (born 19 March 1999) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Greek Super League club Olympiacos. [2]
Ortega's career began in Vélez Sarsfield's youth system, originally arriving in 2013. [3] He made his senior professional debut for the club in November 2017, during a 3–0 home victory over Olimpo. [2] [4] Throughout the rest of the 2017–18 campaign, Ortega made ten further league appearances. [2]
June 2017 saw Ortega train with the Argentina national team in Australia and Singapore. [3] In 2018, Ortega received a call-up for the Argentina U20s for friendlies with England U18s and Real Madrid Castilla. [5] He played the full duration of a 2–1 defeat to England on 23 March. [6] In December, Ortega was selected for the 2019 South American U-20 Championship. [7] After appearing six times in Chile, Ortega was called up for the 2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland. [2] [8] In the succeeding September, Ortega was picked by the U23s ahead of a friendly with Bolivia. [9] In Argentina's opening match of the 2021 Olympic Games Ortega was sent off after receiving a second yellow card.
| Club | Season | League | National cup [a] | League cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Vélez Sarsfield | 2017–18 | Argentine Primera División | 11 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 12 | 0 | |||
| 2018–19 | Argentine Primera División | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | — | 5 | 0 | ||||
| 2019–20 | Argentine Primera División | 5 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 9 | 0 | 8 | 0 | — | 24 | 0 | ||
| 2021 | Argentine Primera División | 20 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 0 | 6 | 0 | — | 38 | 1 | ||
| 2022 | Argentine Primera División | 19 | 1 | 3 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 12 | 0 | — | 47 | 1 | ||
| 2023 | Argentine Primera División | 25 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | — | — | 27 | 1 | ||||
| Total | 84 | 3 | 9 | 0 | 31 | 0 | 26 | 0 | — | 153 | 3 | |||
| Olympiacos | 2023–24 | Super League Greece | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | — | 13 [b] | 0 | — | 38 | 0 | ||
| 2024–25 | Super League Greece | 24 | 0 | 3 | 0 | — | 9 | 0 | — | 36 | 0 | |||
| 2025–26 | Super League Greece | 8 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 4 [c] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 12 | 1 | ||
| Total | 55 | 1 | 5 | 0 | — | 26 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 86 | 1 | |||
| Career total | 139 | 4 | 14 | 0 | 33 | 0 | 51 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 238 | 4 | ||
Olympiacos
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