Gustavo Grondona

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Gustavo Grondona
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Full name Gustavo Héctor Grondona Maio
Date of birth (1968-06-16) June 16, 1968 (age 55)
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.74 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1989–1990 Arsenal de Sarandí -
1991–1992 Independiente 19 (3)
1992–1993 Huracán 11 (0)
1995–1998 Deportivo Español 66 (8)
1998–2001 Universitario de Deportes 129 (25)
2001 Sporting Cristal -
2002–2003 Arsenal de Sarandí 30 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of July 2007

Gustavo Grondona (born 16 June 1968 in Buenos Aires) was an Argentine football midfielder and is currently the assistant manager of Colo Colo football club from Chile.

Gustavo Grondona is the son of Héctor Grodona, brother of Julio Humberto Grondona. He made his playing debut in 1989 for the club founded by his father, Arsenal de Sarandí.

Unlike his father Gustavo managed to step up to play at the highest level, appearing in the Argentine Primera División for Independiente, Huracán and Deportivo Español in the 1990s.

In 1998, he joined Peruvian club Universitario de Deportes where he was part of three championship winning squads between 1998 and 2000.

After a short spell with Sporting Cristal in 2001, he returned to Argentina to play out his career with Arsenal during their first ever season in the Argentine Primera.

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