Uruguayan league champions Penarol have officially announced that they have renewed a 1+1 contract with 23-year-old local winger Augustin Canobio, the new Uruguay international we are not familiar with, while his father, who is also a Uruguayan international, once had a relationship with Chinese football, playing for Yunnan Hongta in the 2003 season, scoring 8 goals in a single season.
Penarol officially announced the renewal of his contract with Canobio Jr., the 23-year-old winger played 43 games for Penarol on all fronts last season, was the absolute main force of the team, contributed 7 goals and 9 assists, and the efficiency was remarkable, helping Penarol win the Uruguayan First Division in the 2021 season. His contract with Penarol expired at the end of last season, and at one point there was news that Mexican giants America were interested in signing him for free, but he eventually had to choose to renew his contract.
A phoenix youth trainer, Canobio Jr. made his Uruguayan top league debut at the age of 19 and has accumulated 123 Uruguayan league games, contributing 15 goals and 15 assists. He has been called up to the Uruguay senior national team but has not yet been given a chance to play, after winning the 2017 South American Youth Championship with Uruguay's U20 national youth team.
Canobio Jr. is also a tiger, his father Osvaldo Canobio also played for the Uruguay national team 8 times during his player era, played as a center forward in the Argentine, Chilean and Honduras leagues, and joined Yunnan Hongta in the 2003 season, scoring 8 goals in a single season, scoring Luneng, Sichuan Guancheng, Shanghai Shenhua, Shenyang Jinde, Liaozu, Chongqing Lifan and Qingdao Beret goals.
After leaving The Red Tower in Yunnan at the end of 2003, the elder Canobio retired after seven years of hard work in South American football, and after retiring in 2010, he began his coaching career as the manager of two second-tier teams, and is currently the youth coach of Uruguay's top league team Liverpool.