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Sebastián Coates
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Uruguayan association football player
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Sebastián Coates is a Uruguayan and Spanish association football player born in Montevideo on October 7, 1990. He plays as a centre-back or full-back and wears the number 4 shirt. Coates has represented Uruguay in international competition, including the 2012 Summer Olympics and the 2014 and 2018 FIFA World Cups.
His club career includes stints with Club Nacional de Football, Liverpool F.C., Sunderland A.F.C., and Sporting CP. He began his professional work period in 2009 and has competed in the Premier League. Coates speaks Spanish and is also known by the pseudonym Luganito.
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Key facts
- 2007
- Uruguay U17
- 2012
- Uruguay U23
- 2014
- → Nacional (loan)
- 2024
- Nacional
- Full name
- Sebastián Coates Nion
- Date of birth
- ( 1990-10-07 ) 7 October 1990 (age 35)
- Place of birth
- Montevideo , Uruguay
- Height
- 1.96 m (6 ft 5 in)
- Position
- Centre-back
- Current team
- Nacional
- 2001 2009
- Nacional
- Years
- Team
- 2009 2011
- Nacional
- 2011 2015
- Liverpool
- 2014 2015
- → Sunderland (loan)
- 2015 2017
- Sunderland
- 2016 2017
- → Sporting CP (loan)
- 2017 2024
- Sporting CP
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Team
- Nacional Montevideo
- Position
- Defender
- Nationality
- Uruguay
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Sebastián
- Family name
- Coates
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Uruguay
- Place of birth
- Montevideo
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Participant in
- 2018 FIFA World Cup
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- Club Nacional de Football
- Position played
- full-back
- League
- Premier League
- Country for sport
- Uruguay
- Mass
- 85
- Official website
- www.sebacoates.com.uy
- Image
- Sebastian Coates - Olympics 2012.jpg
- Height
- 196
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- Commons category
- Sebastián Coates
- date of birth
- 1990-10-07
- sport number
- 4
- pseudonym
- Luganito (Petit [[Diego Lugano]])
- start of work period
- 2009-00-00
- name in native language
- Sebastián Coates
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 20:34, 15 May 2026 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 28 March 2023
Sebastián Coates Nion ( Spanish pronunciation: [seβasˈtjaŋ koˈates ˈnjon]; born 7 October 1990) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Uruguayan club Nacional.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Sebastián Coates” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.