Rubén Rivera (footballer)
Spanish footballer
Rubén Rivera Corral (born 3 May 1985) is a Spanish former professional footballer who played as a forward.
Club career
Rivera was born in A Coruña, Galicia. A product of Deportivo de La Coruña's youth academy, he appeared only once for its first team in the league, featuring 33 minutes in a 0–0 La Liga home draw against Levante UD on 18 February 2007. He scored once in the Copa del Rey for them, in the 4–1 home victory over Real Valladolid in the quarter-finals.
Subsequently, Rivera all but competed in the Spanish lower leagues, mainly with neighbouring Montañeros CF. From 2012 to 2014 he played in the Austrian Football Bundesliga, in representation of Wolfsberger AC and FC Admira Wacker Mödling.
Rivera returned to his country in the 2014 January transfer window, signing for Segunda División B club CD Leganés on loan. In the following years, he represented a host of teams at that level but also in the Tercera División.
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