Fernando Muslera

Uruguay · Serie A · GK · URU · age 40

Fernando Muslera in Uruguay's sky-blue jacket.
Photo Ailura / Wikimedia Commons · CC BY-SA 3.0 AT

The last dance

The last of Uruguay's golden generation

When Uruguay reached the World Cup semi-finals in 2010 and announced that a nation of three million could still terrorise the world's biggest, Fernando Muslera was the goalkeeper behind it all. Through the years of Luis Suárez and Edinson Cavani, the snarling, defiant Celeste that punched so far above its size, he was the constant at the back.

A Galatasaray legend across more than a decade in Istanbul, he returned home to South America to wind down a career of more than 130 caps. He is the last man standing from Uruguay's golden generation, the bridge between an unforgettable era and whatever comes next.

At 40, a final World Cup would let him close the book on his own terms — the goalkeeper who guarded La Celeste's goal when it mattered most, taking his place one last time.

Perfil no elenco da Copa do Mundo 2026

Seleção
Uruguay
Posição
GK
Função no elenco
Titular projetado · #23
Ranking na posição
#1
Jogos pela seleção
134
Gols pela seleção
0
0.84(avaliação do modelo, 0 a 1)
0.0%

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Forma recente

Cooling

2021/22 international form vs the player's multi-season baseline (6.33 vs 6.98).

Major tournament stats

TournamentMPMinGAxGShKPPrgPPrgCTklInt
World Cup 20185473000.000532300
Event data from StatsBomb open data, covering the World Cup, Euro, Copa América and AFCON finals. Small per-tournament samples — totals shown, not per-90 rates.
▸How to read this table— 11 columns explained
MP
Matches played in the tournament.
Min
Total minutes on the pitch.
G
Goals scored (penalties in normal play included; shootouts excluded).
A
Assists — passes that directly led to a goal.
xG
Expected goals — summed per-shot quality (StatsBomb's model).
Sh
Shots taken.
KP
Key passes — passes that led to a shot.
PrgP
Progressive passes — completed passes moving the ball ≥10m toward goal.
PrgC
Progressive carries — carries advancing ≥5m toward goal.
Tkl
Tackles won.
Int
Interceptions.

Tournament shot-stopping

Limited sample
Save %
75.0%
44
Saves / 90
1.71
13
Goals prev. (proxy)
-0.44
31
On-target shots faced / 90
2.28
Tournament matches
5 (473 min)

Save metrics ranked vs 16 keepers in the same major-tournament shot data (StatsBomb). Higher = better. Goals prevented (proxy) = pre-shot xG of on-target shots faced minus goals conceded. StatsBomb open data carries no post-shot xG, so this is an approximation — read as a relative ranking, not a literal goals-saved total. Penalties and shootouts are excluded. This keeper is below our sample bar, so their rates rest on a small number of shots — read the percentiles as indicative.

72
Jogos na carreira
6,480
Minutos na carreira
0
Gols
0
Assistências
0.0
xG

Career — goals & xG by season

GoalsxG
Career goals and xG by season — 2 seasons from 2009-10 to 2010-11, 0 total goals, 0.0 total xG.Career goals and xG by season — 2 seasons from 2009-10 to 2010-11, 0 total goals, 0.0 total xG.011011

Temporada a temporada

TemporadaClubeLigaGolsAssistências
2009-10LazioSerie A363,24000——
2010-11LazioSerie A363,24000——
Dados do FBref até 2022-23. Linhas marcadas com wiki são registros de artilheiros da Wikipedia e contêm apenas gols.
▸How to read this table— 6 columns explained
MP
Matches played in that season (start or sub counts as one).
Mins
Total minutes on the pitch — better signal for workload than MP alone.
Goals
Goals scored (penalties included).
Assists
Passes that directly led to a goal (FBref attribution).
xG
Expected goals — per-shot quality scored 0–1 by distance / angle / pressure, summed across the season.
xAG
Expected assisted goals — the xG of shots created by this player's passes, summed.
FBref data ends 2022-23; current-season rows tagged wiki come from Wikipedia top-scorer tables and carry only goals.

Rest of the Uruguay squad