Nicolás Tagliafico
![]() Tagliafico with Argentina at the 2018 FIFA World Cup | |||||||||||||||||
Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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Full name | Nicolás Alejandro Tagliafico[1] | ||||||||||||||||
Date of birth | [1] | 31 August 1992||||||||||||||||
Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[2] | ||||||||||||||||
Position(s) | Left back | ||||||||||||||||
Team information | |||||||||||||||||
Current team | Ajax | ||||||||||||||||
Number | 31 | ||||||||||||||||
Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
2010–2015 | Banfield | 90 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2012–2013 | → Real Murcia (loan) | 27 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2015–2018 | Independiente | 85 | (2) | ||||||||||||||
2018– | Ajax | 68 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
International career‡ | |||||||||||||||||
2007 | Argentina U15 | 2 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2009 | Argentina U17 | 5 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
2011 | Argentina U20 | 12 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
2017– | Argentina | 25 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
Medal record
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 23:03, 7 March 2020 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 18 November 2019 |
Nicolás Alejandro Tagliafico (born 31 August 1992) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left back for Eredivisie club Ajax.
Club career
Banfield
Tagliafico made his professional debut for Banfield on a 2−1 away victory against Tigre for the fifth fixture of the 2011 Clausura, coming on as a substitute on the 72nd minute.[3] Due to Marcelo Bustamante's ban, he was a starter the following game, a 2−2 draw with Huracán.[3] In 2012, Tagliafico signed a one-year loan deal with Spanish club Real Murcia.
Independiente
In 2015, he made the move to Independiente for an undisclosed transfer fee and made his professional debut for the club during a 3−2 away win at Newell's Old Boys. Tagliafico would end up captaining the team that won the 2017 Copa Sudamericana.
Ajax
On 5 January 2018, Tagliafico made the move to Ajax for a fee of £4 million and made his professional debut for the club during a 2−0 home win against Feyenoord on 21 January 2018 in the Klassieker.
International career
Tagliafico has played in all the youth categories of the Argentine national team: under-15, under-17 and under-20. Tagliafico impressed for the Argentina national under-20 football team at the 2011 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Colombia; however, he missed Argentina's final kick in the quarter-final penalty shoot-out against Portugal, meaning Argentina exited that competition 5–4 on penalties (Cartagena, 13 August 2011).
In May 2018, he was named in Argentina's final 23 man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia.[4] He also played the 2019 Copa América, and took with Argentina the third place, through a 2–1 victory over Chile in the third-place match.[5]
Style of play
He is noted for his "lung-busting stamina, excellent technique and continuous enterprise". As a result of his skills, as well as his playing position and club, Tagliafico has been compared to the Internazionale and Argentina full-back Javier Zanetti, formerly also of Banfield.[6]
Career statistics
- As of match played 7 March 2020[7]
Club | Season | League | National Cup[a] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Banfield | 2010–11 | Primera División | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 |
2011–12 | 33 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 33 | 1 | ||
2013–14 | Primera B Nacional | 34 | 0 | 2 | 1 | – | 0 | 0 | 36 | 1 | ||
2014 | Primera División | 14 | 1 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 14 | 1 | ||
Total | 90 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 92 | 3 | ||
Real Murcia (loan) | 2012–13 | Segunda División | 27 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 28 | 0 | ||
Independiente | 2015 | Primera División | 31 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 6[b] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 39 | 1 |
2016 | 16 | 1 | 2 | 0 | 4[b] | 0 | 3[c] | 0 | 25 | 1 | ||
2016–17 | 29 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 11[b] | 0 | 2[c] | 0 | 43 | 0 | ||
2017–18 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
Total | 85 | 2 | 5 | 0 | 21 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 116 | 2 | ||
Ajax | 2017–18 | Eredivisie | 15 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 15 | 1 | |
2018–19 | 29 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 15[d] | 3 | – | 46 | 6 | |||
2019–20 | 24 | 3 | 3 | 0 | 11[e] | 2 | 0 | 0 | 38 | 5 | ||
Total | 68 | 6 | 5 | 1 | 26 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 99 | 12 | ||
Career total | 270 | 9 | 13 | 2 | 47 | 5 | 5 | 0 | 335 | 17 |
- ^ Appearances in the Copa Argentina, Copa del Rey and KNVB Cup
- ^ a b c Appearance(s) in the Copa Sudamericana
- ^ a b Appearance(s) in the Torneos de Verano
- ^ Appearance(s) in the UEFA Champions League
- ^ Ten appearances and two goals in the UEFA Champions League, one appearance in the UEFA Europa League
International
- Statistics accurate as of match played 18 November 2019.[8]
Argentina | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2017 | 1 | 0 |
2018 | 11 | 0 |
2019 | 13 | 0 |
Total | 25 | 0 |
Honours
Club
Independiente[9]
Ajax[9]
International
Argentina[9]
Individual
- Eredivisie Player of the Month: November 2018
References
- ^ a b "FIFA World Cup Russia 2018: List of players: Argentina" (PDF). FIFA. 15 July 2018. p. 1. Archived from the original (PDF) on 6 December 2019.
- ^ "Nico Tagliafico". Ajax.
- ^ a b "Closing '11 statistics". Argentine Soccer. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
- ^ "Argentina: Paulo Dybala completes star quartet as big name misses out". independent.co.uk. The Independent. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ "Argentina venció 2-1 a Chile y se quedó con el tercer puesto" [Argentina beat Chile 2-1 and took third place]. copaamerica.com (in Spanish). CONMEBOL. 6 July 2019. Archived from the original on 8 July 2019. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
- ^ "Nicolás Tagliafico: the New Javier Zanetti?". Mediolana. 14 August 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
- ^ "N. Tagliafico". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
- ^ "Nicolás Tagliafico". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
- ^ a b c "Nicolás Tagliafico - Career Honours". Soccerway.
External links
- Nicolás Tagliafico at Soccerway
- Statistics at Football-Lineups.com
- 1992 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Buenos Aires Province
- Argentine footballers
- Association football fullbacks
- Banfield footballers
- Real Murcia players
- Club Atlético Independiente footballers
- AFC Ajax players
- Argentine Primera División players
- Primera B Nacional players
- Segunda División players
- Eredivisie players
- Argentina youth international footballers
- Argentina under-20 international footballers
- Argentina international footballers
- 2018 FIFA World Cup players
- 2019 Copa América players
- Argentine expatriate footballers
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in the Netherlands
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Expatriate footballers in the Netherlands