Álvaro Recoba

Álvaro Recoba is the kind of footballer you remember even if you only caught a handful of his highlights — the guy had this effortless, almost nonchalant quality in front of goal that felt completely at odds with how difficult what he was actually doing was. El Chino spent the bulk of his career at Inter Milan through the late 1990s and 2000s, and while injuries and consistency kept him from being a true superstar week in, week out, when he was on, he was genuinely unplayable. That left foot was a weapon — free kicks, volleys, long-range strikes that seemed to bend physics just slightly. For Uruguay he carried real weight as a creative force, and being talked about as one of the greatest Uruguayan players ever is a hell of a legacy for a country that has produced some serious talent. The fact that he moved into coaching tells me the love for the game never left him.

Name (English)

Álvaro Recoba

Name (Japanese)

アルバロ・レコバ

Reading

あるばろ・れこば

Born

March 17, 1976 (age 50)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Pisces / Dragon

Origin

Montevideo, Montevideo Department, Uruguay

Height

177 cm

Occupation

association football player / association football coach

Motto

Private

• Instagramhttps://www.instagram.com/chino_recoba20/
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%82%A2%E3%83%AB%E3%83%90%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BB%E3%83%AC%E3%82%B3%E3%83%90

Tags

• Montevideo Department
• association football player
• association football coach

Last updated

2026-06-02

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.