Erick Pulgar
Personal information | |||||||||||
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Full name | Erick Antonio Pulgar Farfán | ||||||||||
Date of birth | 15 January 1994 | ||||||||||
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 | 24 | (4) | ||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||
2015– | Chile | 17 | (1) | ||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 11:39, 23 February 2020 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 June 2019 |
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.
Career statistics
Club
- As of match played 22 February 2020[7]
Club | Season | League | League | Cup | Europe | Other | Total | |||||
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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 | 24 | 4 | 4 | 0 | – | – | 28 | 4 | ||
Career total | 197 | 23 | 24 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 223 | 24 |
International goals
- Scores and results list Chile's goal tally first.
No | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 17 June 2019 | Estádio do Morumbi, São Paulo, Brazil | Japan | 1–0 | 4–0 | 2019 Copa América |
Honours
International
Chile
- Copa América: 2016
- Copa America 4 place (copper medals):2019[8]
References
- ^ "erick pulgar el jugador relevacion" (in Spanish). 5 May 2014. Archived from the original on 6 June 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ "Erick Pulgar se suma a Universidad Catolica" (in Spanish). 4 July 2014. Archived from the original on 14 July 2014. Retrieved 2 June 2014.
- ^ "UFFICIALE: Bologna, preso Pulgar dall'Universidad Catolica" (in Italian). 20 August 2015. Retrieved 16 February 2016.
- ^ "UFFICIALE: Bologna, rinnovo fino al 2022 per il cileno Pulgar" (in Italian). Retrieved 12 January 2019.
- ^ "UFFICIALE: Pulgar è un nuovo giocatore della Fiorentina". Retrieved 9 August 2019.
- ^ "Alexis Sánchez scores first goal since January as Chile beat Japan". Guardian. Retrieved 18 June 2019.
- ^ "Erick Pulgar". Soccerway.com.
- ^ https://copaamerica.com/en/regulations/
External links
- Erick Pulgar at Soccerway
- 1994 births
- Living people
- People from Antofagasta
- Chilean footballers
- Chilean expatriate footballers
- Chile international footballers
- Association football defenders
- C.D. Antofagasta footballers
- Club Deportivo Universidad Católica footballers
- Bologna F.C. 1909 players
- ACF Fiorentina players
- Chilean Primera División players
- Serie A players
- Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Italy
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Copa América Centenario players
- 2019 Copa América players
- Copa América-winning players