Alejandro Rubén Capurro (born 31 October 1980 in San Lorenzo

San Lorenzo, Santa Fe

San Lorenzo is a city in the south of the province of Santa Fe, Argentina, located 23 km north of Rosario, on the western shore of the Paraná River, and forming one end of the Greater Rosario metropolitan area...

 in the Santa Fe

Santa Fe Province

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) is an Argentine

Argentina

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 football midfielder who plays for Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata in the Argentine Primera División.

Capurro started his career at Colón de Santa Fe

Colón de Santa Fe

Club Atlético Colón, commonly referred to as Colón de Santa Fe, is a football team from Santa Fe, Argentina. As of Primera División Argentina 1946 the football squad plays in the highest division of Argentine football, and has done so continuously since 1995-96...

 in the Primera Division Argentina

Primera División Argentina

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 in 1999. He played for them until 2006 when he and his Colón teammate Franco Cángele

Franco Cángele

Franco Cángele is an Argentine football striker who plays for Kayserispor on a 3+1 year contract....

 were loaned to Turkish

Turkey

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 side Sakaryaspor

Sakaryaspor

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 in 2006.

In 2010 Capurro was bought by Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata for a 200,000 US dollars fee.

External links

• Statistics at Gueardian StatsCentre Argentine Primera statistics