Hugo Alberto Barrientos is an Argentine

Argentina

Argentina , officially the Argentine Republic , is the second largest country in South America by land area, after Brazil. It is constituted as a federation of 23 provinces and an autonomous city, Buenos Aires...

 football midfielder currently playing for Newell's Old Boys

Newell's Old Boys

Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys is an Argentine sports club based in Rosario. The club was founded on November 3, 1903, and is named after Isaac Newell, one of the pioneers of Argentine football...

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Carer

Barrientos started his playing career in 1994 with C.A.I

Comisión de Actividades Infantiles Comodoro Rivadavia

Comisión de Actividades Infantiles , is an Argentine football club located in the city of Comodoro Rivadavia, in the Patagonian province of Chubut....

 in the lower leagues of Argentine football.

In 2000 Barrientos joined Atlético de Rafaela of the 2nd division and in 2002-2003 the club won the division and obtained promotion to the Argentine Primera

Primera División Argentina

The Primera División is a professional football league in Argentina. It is the country's premier football division and is at the top of the Argentine football league system. Contested by twenty clubs, it operates on a system of promotion and relegation with the Primera B Nacional. The season runs...

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Atlético were relegated after one season, but Barrientos stayed in the Primera, playing for Olimpo de Bahía Blanca

Olimpo de Bahía Blanca

Club Olimpo, usually referred to as Olimpo de Bahía Blanca, is a sports club based in the city of Bahía Blanca, Buenos Aires Province, Argentina. The club was founded on October 15, 1910, and their main activities are basketball and association football. The football team currently plays in the...

 and then Instituto de Córdoba.

In 2006 Barrientos signed for Huracán

Club Atlético Huracán

Club Atlético Huracán is a sports club from the Parque Patricios neighbourhood of Buenos Aires, Argentina. The football team currently plays in the Primera B Nacional, the second level of the Argentine football league system. Huracán home stadium is the Estadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó.Huracán was...

 and was part of the squad that won promotion to the Primera at the end of the 2006-2007 season. Barrientos has served as the on-pitch captain of Huracán on several occasions.

In 2009 Barrientos was released by Huracán, he then moved to Rosario

Rosario

Rosario is the largest city in the province of Santa Fe, Argentina. It is located northwest of Buenos Aires, on the western shore of the Paraná River and has 1,159,004 residents as of the ....

 to join Newell's Old Boys.

Titles

Season	Team	Title
2002–2003	Atlético de Rafaela	Primera B Nacional

External links

• Football-Lineups player profile
• Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI