| Alexis Zárate | |
| Fullname: | Alexis Joel Zárate Maldonado |
| Birth Date: | 8 May 1994 |
| Birth Place: | General Deheza, Argentina |
| Position: | Right back |
| Years1: | 2013–2017 |
| Clubs1: | Independiente |
| Caps1: | 15 |
| Goals1: | 1 |
| Years2: | 2016–2017 |
| Clubs2: | → Temperley (loan) |
| Caps2: | 28 |
| Goals2: | 2 |
| Years3: | 2018 |
| Clubs3: | FK Liepāja |
| Caps3: | 3 |
| Goals3: | 0 |
| Nationalyears1: | 2011 |
| Nationalcaps1: | 9 |
| Nationalgoals1: | 0 |
| Club-Update: | 01:45, 2 January 2019 (UTC) |
Alexis Joel Zárate Maldonado (born 8 May 1994) is an Argentine former footballer who played as a right back.[1]
Zárate's career started with Independiente in 2013, making his professional bow during a win over Boca Unidos in the Copa Argentina on 22 May; his first league appearance arrived a month later against Colón.[1] [2] Zárate scored the first goal of his career versus Godoy Cruz in October 2014.[1] On 1 January 2016, fellow Argentine Primera División team Temperley loaned Zárate until December 2017.[1] He scored goals against Huracán and Colón throughout thirty-one appearances for Temperley.[1] In January 2018, Latvian Higher League side FK Liepāja completed the signing of Zárate.[1] He made his debut in a March win over Riga FC.[1]
2011 saw Zárate win a total of nine caps for the Argentina U17s at the 2011 South American Under-17 Football Championship and 2011 FIFA U-17 World Cup.[1]
In September 2017, Zárate was convicted of rape.[3] [4] [5] However, he remained free during the appeals process and was allowed to join Latvia's FK Liepāja in March 2018.[3] [4] [5] Zárate's appeal was rejected by the Supreme Court of Argentina on 3 December 2018, with final sentencing to be decided.[6] [7] [8] A year later, on 5 December 2019, a court in Buenos Aires rejected Zárate's second appeal.[9] Despite this, a Lomas de Zamora court denied a request for Zárate to be arrested on 16 December; with the Supreme Court case still pending.[10] On 3 July 2020, Zárate was arrested after the court rejected his appeal and jailed to serve his six-and-a-half-year sentence.[11] [12] He subsequently filed a further complaint appeal to the Supreme Court, which was rejected on 16 June 2022 and the ex-football player will have to spend his six-and-a-half years sentence imprisoned.[11] [12]
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| Club | Season | League | Cup[13] | League Cup | Continental[14] | Other | Total | ||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | |||
| Independiente | 2012–13 | Primera División | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||
| 2013–14 | Primera B Nacional | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | ||||
| 2014 | Primera División | 12 | 1 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 13 | 1 | ||||
| 2015 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 1[15] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 2 | 0 | ||||
| 2016 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| 2016–17 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| 2017–18 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 15 | 1 | 2 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 18 | 1 | ||||
| Temperley (loan) | 2016 | Primera División | 3 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 4 | 0 | |||
| 2016–17 | 25 | 2 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 26 | 2 | |||||
| 2017–18 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 28 | 2 | 3 | 0 | — | — | 0 | 0 | 31 | 2 | |||||
| FK Liepāja | 2018 | Higher League | 3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 46 | 3 | 5 | 0 | — | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 52 | 3 | ||||