Erick Pulgar

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In this Spanish name, the first or paternal surname is Pulgar and the second or maternal family name is Farfán.
Erick Pulgar
Personal information
Full name Erick Antonio Pulgar Farfán
Date of birth (1994-01-15) 15 January 1994 (age 30)
Place of birth Antofagasta, Chile
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 1+1⁄2 in)
Position(s) Defensive midfielder
Team information
Current team
 Fiorentina
Number 78
Youth career
Deportes Antofagasta
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2011–2014 Deportes Antofagasta 38 (2)
2014–2015 Universidad Católica 35 (7)
2015–2019 Bologna 100 (10)
2019– Fiorentina 50 (7)
International career‡
2015– Chile 26 (1)
Medal record
Representing  Chile
Winner Copa América Centenario 2016
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23 January 2021 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 17 November 2020

Erick Antonio Pulgar Farfán (born 15 January 1994) is a Chilean professional footballer who plays for Serie A side Fiorentina. Mainly a defensive midfielder, he can also play as a defender.

Club career

Deportes Antofagasta

Born in Antofagasta, Pulgar started playing 6 years in South West Miramar club. At 15 he was invited to a championship Minera Escondida, Playa Blanca juice for where was the 'professional' Carlos Carcamo, who approached the young player to come to try to cadets. In Miramar played Antofagasta created but newcomer was winger and left back. It was in the 16 sub center where he lay until now. Debuted in 2013 and then ah been a regular in the series. He is a tall, fast and loose player that covers the defense very well. He also has good passing game despite his thin body fight strongly above. In 2014 the decommissioning stressed again and this caught the revelation player of the season.[1]

Universidad Catolica

On 28 June 2014, Deportes Antofagasta confirmed the transfer of Pulgar to Universidad Católica, for $400,000 US dollars for 70% of the player's rights. Pulgar signed a three-year contract.[2]

Pulgar was the most outstanding player on a bad Universidad Católica half of 2014. After the arrival of Mario Salas starts playing in the position of the midfielder, where a prominent, even converting two goals in three games

Bologna

On 20 August 2015, Italian club Bologna signed Pulgar from Universidad Católica on a four-year deal for an undisclosed fee.[3] He was given the number 5 shirt. On 11 January 2019, Pulgar extended his contract until 30 June 2022.[4]

Fiorentina

On 9 August 2019, Pulgar signed for Fiorentina.[5]

International career

At the 2019 Copa America, Pulgar scored a goal in Chile's opening match against Japan.[6] This was his first goal for the national side.

Personal life

On 23 August 2020 he tested positive for COVID-19.[7]

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 23 January 2021[8]
Club Season League League Cup Europe Other Total
Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Antofagasta 2011 Primera B 1 0 – – – 1 0
2012 Primera División 0 0 3 0 – – 3 0
2013 5 2 6 0 – – 11 2
2013–14 32 0 0 0 – – 32 0
2014–15 0 0 2 0 – – 2 0
Total 38 2 11 0 0 0 0 0 49 2
Universidad Católica 2014–15 Primera División 35 7 3 1 2 0 – 40 8
Bologna 2015–16 Serie A 13 0 0 0 – – 13 0
2016–17 27 1 3 0 – – 30 1
2017–18 32 3 1 0 – – 33 3
2018–19 28 6 2 0 – – 30 6
Total 100 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 106 10
Fiorentina 2019–20 Serie A 38 7 4 0 – – 42 7
2020–21 13 0 2 0 – – 15 0
Total 50 7 6 0 0 0 0 0 56 7
Career total 223 26 26 1 2 0 0 0 251 27

International goals

Scores and results list Chile's goal tally first.
No Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1. 17 June 2019 Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil  Japan 1–0 4–0 2019 Copa América

Honours

International

Chile

References

  1. ^ "erick pulgar el jugador relevacion" (in Spanish). 5 May 2014. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  2. ^ "Erick Pulgar se suma a Universidad Catolica" (in Spanish). 4 July 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
  3. ^ "UFFICIALE: Bologna, preso Pulgar dall'Universidad Catolica" (in Italian). 20 August 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
  4. ^ "UFFICIALE: Bologna, rinnovo fino al 2022 per il cileno Pulgar" (in Italian). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
  5. ^ "UFFICIALE: Pulgar è un nuovo giocatore della Fiorentina". Retrieved 9 August 2019.
  6. ^ "Alexis Sánchez scores first goal since January as Chile beat Japan". The Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
  7. ^ "Fiorentina: Pulgar e Ghidotti positivi al coronavirus". eurosport.it (in Italian). 23 August 2020. Retrieved 7 November 2020.
  8. ^ "Erick Pulgar". Soccerway.com.
  9. ^ https://copaamerica.com/en/regulations/

External links

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