Federico Nieto

Federico Nieto

Personal information
Full name	Federico Nieto
Date of birth	August 26, 1983 (1983-08-26)
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Atlético Paranaense
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2002–2005	Almagro	58	(33)
2005	Rangers	3	(1)
2006	Estrela Amadora	7	(1)
2006	Genoa	0	(0)
2006–2007	→Hellas Verona (loan)	21	(1)
2007–2008	Huracán	32	(7)
2008–2009	Banfield	8	(0)
2009	→ Huracán (loan)	15	(5)
2009–2010	Colon	31	(13)
2010–	Atlético Paranaense	31	(5)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of December 5, 2011. † Appearances (Goals).

Federico Gastón Nieto (born 26 August 1983 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine professional footballer currently playing for Atlético Paranaense in the Brazilian Série A.

Career

He previously played for Almagro, with a loan spell at Scottish club Rangers in 2005, where he scored three times, once in the league against Dunfermline and twice against Clyde in the League Cup.

In 2007 Nieto returned to Argentina to play for Huracán, in 2008 he joined Banfield and in January 2009 he was loaned back to Huracán where he was a member of the squad that finished in 2nd place in the Clausura 2009 tournamnet.

In 2009 he joined Colón de Santa Fe where he started well with four goals in his first six games with the club.

Since 2010 he is been playing in Atlético Paranaense where, after a not so good 2010 season, he became one of the most important players of the team in 2011, scoring seven goals at a total of seven games played.

External links

• Federico Nieto statistics at Irish Times
• Argentine Primera statistics (Spanish)
• zerozerofootball.com