Cristian Gastón Fabbiani (born 3 September 1983 in Ciudad Evita

Ciudad Evita

Ciudad Evita is a city in La Matanza Partido, within the Greater Buenos Aires metro area. Ciudad Evita currently has about 70,000 inhabitants, and is situated about 20 kilometers from Downtown Buenos Aires and 6 kilometers from Ministro Pistarini International Airport...

) is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 professional footballer, who plays for Independiente Rivadavia in the Primera B Nacional. His nickname is El Ogro (The Ogre) which is in reference to a goal celebration he used to make using a Shrek

Shrek

Shrek is a 2001 American computer-animated fantasy comedy film directed by Andrew Adamson and Vicky Jenson, featuring the voices of Mike Myers, Eddie Murphy, Cameron Diaz, and John Lithgow. Loosely based on William Steig's 1990 fairy tale picture book Shrek!...

 mask while playing in Chile.

Career

In 2008 he was loaned to Argentine club Newell's Old Boys

Newell's Old Boys

Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario. The club was founded on November 3, 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell, one of the pioneers of Argentine football...

 from Romanian CFR Cluj

CFR Cluj

CFR Cluj is a Romanian professional football club from the city of Cluj-Napoca in Transylvania, Romania. The club had spent most of their existence in the lower divisions, except for a spell in Divizia A in the 1970s, until they received significant financial backing from Árpád Pászkány in 2002...

. In 2009, he managed to leave Newell's early in order to join River Plate

Club Atlético River Plate

Club Atlético River Plate is an Argentine sports club based in the Nuñez neighborhood of Buenos Aires. It is best known for its professional football team, which currently competes in Nacional B, the second tier of Argentine football....

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In 2010 he went to CD Veracruz

CD Veracruz

Tiburones Rojos de Veracruz, known as Veracruz, is a Mexican professional football club. Veracruz plays in the Liga de Ascenso de México. Their nickname "Tiburones Rojos" means red sharks. The club was founded in 1943 after two clubs from the city state of Veracruz, Iberia de Córdoba and Veracruz...

 to play in the Mexican second division, but he failed to impress in preseason training, resulting in Veracruz terminating the conract. He then joined recently promoted Argentine Primera División side All Boys

All Boys

Club Atlético All Boys is a sports club based in the Floresta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The institution is mostly known by its football team, which currently plays at the Primera División, the top division of Argentine football league system....

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Honours

CFR Cluj:

• Romanian League: 2007–08
• Romanian Cup
  Romanian Cup
  The Cupa României is a football competition which was held annually since 1933-34, except during the World War II. It is the country's main cup competition, and it is open to all clubs affiliated with FRF and the county football associations regardless of the league they belong to...
  
  : 2007-08
  Cupa României 2007-08
  The 2007/2008 Cupa României was the 70th edition of the Cupa României. The final was held on May 10, 2008 at the Stadionul Ceahlăul in Piatra Neamţ.-Round of 32:-Round of 16:-Quarter-finals:-------------Semi-finals:-----Final:...
  
  

External links

Argentine Primera statistics

• Statistics at Irish Times