• First team All-USL First Division and Rookie of the Year in 2008
• Capped 17 times by Cuban National Team and captain of U-23 team during 2008 Olympic qualifying
• Coach Sigi Schmid: "Osvaldo is a skillful, simple, very efficient player."

Professional Experience

Earned 2008 first team All-USL First Division honors and voted league's Rookie of the Year. Scored four goals and added two assists to lead Charleston to the first round of the USL-1 playoffs. Started 31 games in all competitions and scored one goal in the postseason. Scored two goals in U.S. Open Cup play, helping the Battery reach the championship final, where it fell to D.C. United. Played three seasons (2005-07) for FC Pinar del Rio, winning the Cuban championship in 2006.

International Experience

Represented Cuba 17 times at the senior level, scoring two goals. Made debut for the senior Cuban National Team in a Caribbean Nations Cup match against the Turks & Caicos Islands in September 2006. Served as captain of the U-23 national team during qualification for the 2008 Olympics.

Left the Cuban National Team in June of 2007 during the CONCACAF Gold Cup tournament in Houston prior to match versus Honduras. He separated from the other players during a visit to a department store, walking out the front door undetected. Lester Moré also left in a separate incident during the Gold Cup and joined Alonso in Charleston in 2008.