Erick Plúas

Érick Alexander Plúas Vera (born 20 March 2002) is an Ecuadorian professional footballer who plays as a midfielder for Orense S.C. in the LigaPro Serie A.

Club career Plúas joined the youth academy of Orense S.C. as a child and rose through the club's junior categories, winning several youth titles with the side. As a youth international, he was a regular starter for Ecuador's under-15 side at the 2017 South American Under-15 Championship in Argentina, and later played at the 2019 South American Under-17 Championship in Peru, through which Ecuador qualified for that year's 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil.

On 4 July 2020, Orense confirmed that Plúas, then 18, had been sent on a one-year loan with an option to buy to Brazilian club Palmeiras, where he had already been training for several months. Registered with Palmeiras' under-20 squad, he was among a group of youth players promoted to train alongside the first team under head coach Vanderlei Luxemburgo.

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