Former Uruguayan footballer
Frank
Acosta, who played in the Villarreal and the Racing
of
Santander, was found dead on Monday, after he disappeared on Saturday while trying to swim across a stream in the department of Canelones, in the south of his country.
According to sources from the National Navy, the body of the young man was found practically in the same place where it had been seen for the last time. Acosta, 25, was wanted by the maritime authorities since Saturday. Born in March 1996, the footballer began his professional career at the Phoenix, where he debuted in 2013.
It coincided with Cabaco or Arambarri
Two years later, the forward played the South American U-20 and the World Cup in the same category with Uruguay in a selection that had footballers like Erick
Tobacco or Mauro
Arambarri, of Getafe, Y Nahitan
Nández or Gaston
Pereiro, of Cagliari.
In that same season, Franco Acosta was acquired by the Villarreal, where he began defending the colors of the subsidiary.
Later, he jumped to the first team and in June he debuted in a match of Europe
League, in the victory of the 'yellow submarine' against the Olympique de Lyon (0-2) with so many of Bruno
Soriano Y Leo
Baptistao.
Finally, in 2018 it went to Racing
of
Santander, club in which he spent a season before returning to Uruguay, where he defended the Plaza
Cologne, to the Boston
River and to Athens
of
Saint
Carlos.