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Nicolás Tagliafico
Tagliafico with Argentina at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name Nicolás Alejandro Tagliafico[1]
Date of birth (1992-08-31) 31 August 1992 (age 31)[1]
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
Men's football
Representing  Argentina
Copa América
Third place 2019 Brazil
*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]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup[a] Continental Other Total
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
  1. ^ Appearances in the Copa Argentina, Copa del Rey and KNVB Cup
  2. ^ a b c Appearance(s) in the Copa Sudamericana
  3. ^ a b Appearance(s) in the Torneos de Verano
  4. ^ Appearance(s) in the UEFA Champions League
  5. ^ 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
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

References

  1. ^ 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.
  2. ^ "Nico Tagliafico". Ajax.
  3. ^ a b "Closing '11 statistics". Argentine Soccer. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  4. ^ "Argentina: Paulo Dybala completes star quartet as big name misses out". independent.co.uk. The Independent. 21 May 2018. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  5. ^ "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.
  6. ^ "Nicolás Tagliafico: the New Javier Zanetti?". Mediolana. 14 August 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  7. ^ "N. Tagliafico". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  8. ^ "Nicolás Tagliafico". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  9. ^ a b c "Nicolás Tagliafico - Career Honours". Soccerway.

External links

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