Gonzalo Vargas Abella is a Uruguay

Uruguay

Uruguay ,officially the Oriental Republic of Uruguay,sometimes the Eastern Republic of Uruguay; ) is a country in the southeastern part of South America. It is home to some 3.5 million people, of whom 1.8 million live in the capital Montevideo and its metropolitan area...

an Association football striker

Striker

Forwards, also known as strikers, are the players on a team in association football who play nearest to the opposing team's goal, and are therefore principally responsible for scoring goals...

. He plays for Gimnasia de La Plata in the Primera B Nacional.

Vargas is nicknamed Turbo because of his explosive dribbles and high speed sprints.

Club

He also played for Defensor Sporting (2002–2004) and the Argentine team Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata

Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata

Club de Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata Gimnasia y Esgrima was promoted to the first division after becoming champions of the División Intermedia of Argentine football in 1915. Later, in 1929, the club would become champions of the Primera División...

 (2005–2006). On June 23, 2008, he was presented as the new forward for F.C. Atlas

F.C. Atlas

Club Social y Deportivo Atlas de Guadalajara is a Mexican football club. Atlas is one of three teams that play in Guadalajara, Mexico, along with Club Deportivo Guadalajara and Estudiantes Tecos in the Primera División de México...

, following Bruno Marioni

Bruno Marioni

Bruno Marioni is a retired Argentine striker.- Career :Marioni made his debut under the last name Giménez for Newell's Old Boys in 1995 before moving to Estudiantes in 1997. After 2 seasons in Argentina, Marioni went to Portugal joining Sporting in 1998...

's departure from the club. He was given the number 9 jersey.

Vargas returned to Argentina to play for Argentinos Juniors

Argentinos Juniors

Asociación Atlética Argentinos Juniors is an Argentine football club based in La Paternal, Buenos Aires. Founded on August 15, 1904, the club was originally called the “Martyrs of Chicago”, in homage to the eight anarchists imprisoned or hanged after the 1886 Haymarket Riot in Chicago.-Early...

 on loan for the 2010-11 Argentine Primera División season.

National team

He has been capped by the Uruguay national side 10 times, and he has scored 3 goals.

International goals

Gonzalo Vargas: International Goals

#	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
?.	6 February 2007	Cúcuta Cúcuta Cúcuta is a Colombian city, capital of Norte de Santander, in the northeast of the country. Due to its proximity to the Colombian-Venezuelan border, Cúcuta is an important commercial center. The city has the constitutional category of Special District. It is located at the most active... , Colombia Colombia Colombia, officially the Republic of Colombia , is a unitary constitutional republic comprising thirty-two departments. The country is located in northwestern South America, bordered to the east by Venezuela and Brazil; to the south by Ecuador and Peru; to the north by the Caribbean Sea; to the...		3-1	Win	Friendly

1 Goal against Romania

External links

• Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI