Adrián Fernández
Personal information
Full name	Adrián Gustavo Fernández
Date of birth	November 28, 1980 (1980-11-28) (age 29)
Place of birth	San Martín, Argentina
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Chernomorets
Number	9
Senior career1
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
1998-2003 2003-2004 2004 2005 2006 2006-2007 2007-2008 2008 2009-	Nueva Chicago El Porvenir Colo-Colo The Strongest Al-Shaab FC Schaffhausen FC St. Gallen Cherno More Chernomorets	102 (28) 00? 0(?) 019 0(8) 012 0(6) 00? 0(?) 026 0(3) 025 0(3) 015 0(4) 023 0(8)
1 Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:22, 13 June 2009 (UTC). * Appearances (Goals)

Adrián Gustavo 'Carucha' Fernández (born 28 November 1980 in General San Martín Partido, Greater Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football player. He currently plays for Bulgarian Chernomorets Burgas.

[edit] Career

Between 1998 and 2003, 'Carucha' played in second-line Argentine soccer teams, such as Nueva Chicago and El Porvenir. In spite of his poor background, during 2004, Fernandez arrived to the most important Chilean soccer team: Colo-Colo.

In Colo Colo, Fernandez debuted in the most important match in the Chilean league: the superclásico (Colo Colo v/s Universidad de Chile). In that match 'Carucha' lost several easy-goal-opportunities. For this reason, press and people laughed him and started to define "caruchazo" as the action of fail an easy-goal-opportunity. In the rest of the Clausura tournament, Fernandez continued doing "caruchazos" and, at the end of the season, he only scored three goals. Colo Colo didn't enlarge his contract.

Although his performance, Adrian 'Carucha' Fernandez was so appreciated by the Colo Colo's barra brava due to the effort he put during his stay in Chile.

After his Chilean experience, 'Carucha' played in the Bolivian The Strongest, Saudi Arabia and in the Swiss league. In July 2008 gone in Bulgaria and signed with local team Cherno More Varna. On 14 November 2008 he scored two goals for Cherno More in the most important match against Spartak Varna (The derby of Varna) on Ticha Stadium. He scored goals in the 60th and 73rd minute. The result of the match was a 5:0 win for Cherno More.

In January 2009 Fernández signed contract with Chernomorets Burgas. Until the end of season 2008-09 he played in 11 matches for the club and scored 5 goals.

[edit] External links

• Statistics at Guardian Stats Centre
• Profile at WeltFussball