Augusto Batalla

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Augusto Batalla
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Personal information
Full name Augusto Martín Batalla Vargas
Date of birth (1996-04-30) 30 April 1996 (age 25)
Place of birth Hurlingham, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Position(s) Goalkeeper
Club information
Current team
 O'Higgins
(on loan from River Plate)
Number 13
Youth career
2001–2016 River Plate
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2016– River Plate 36 (0)
2018 → Atlético Tucumán (loan) 13 (0)
2018 → Tigre (loan) 10 (0)
2019 → Unión La Calera (loan) 22 (0)
2020– → O'Higgins (loan) 25 (0)
National team
2011 Argentina U15 6 (0)
2013 Argentina U17 15 (0)
2015 Argentina U20 13 (0)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 5 January 2021

Augusto Martín Batalla Vargas (born 30 April 1996) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a goalkeeper for O'Higgins, in the Chilean Primera División. He is a former Argentina U20's international.

Club career[]

Batalla is product of the River Plate academy, which he joined as a five-year old.[1] In 2015, River Plate accepted a loan offer from La Liga side Real Madrid for Batalla with the option of a permanent move.[2] However, Batalla turned down the move to Real Madrid for personal reasons.[3]

He made his first-team debut in 2016 and was promoted by Manager Marcelo Gallardo as first-choice goalkeeper after Marcelo Barovero left the club.[1][4] Batalla remained as the club's first choice goalkeeper, initially impressing, winning the 2015–16 Copa Argentina[5] and the 2016 Recopa Sudamericana titles,[6] before losing his place after errors and the signing of German Lux in June 2017.[7]

After falling further down the pecking order after the signing of Argentina goalkeeper Franco Armani in January 2018.[8] On 5 January 2018, Batalla signed a one-year loan deal with fellow Argentine Primera División side Atlético Tucumán.[9] After impressing and helping the club progress in the Copa Libertadores,[10] On 25 June, Batalla announced on his social media he would be leaving Atlético Tucumán from his loan spell early.[11]

International career[]

He has represented Argentina at various youth levels, including winning South American Under-17 Football Championship in 2013 for the Argentina U17 's where he won the Best goalkeeper of the South American Under-17 Football Championship's[3] and he also won the South American Youth Football Championship for the Argentina U20 in 2015.[3]

Honours[]

Club

River Plate
Argentina U17
  • South American Under-17 Football Championship: 2013
Argentina U20

Individual

  • Best goalkeeper of the South American Under-17 Football Championship.[3]

References[]

  1. ^ a b "Augusto Batalla, el heredero: la historia, el recorrido y la mirada del joven que reemplazará a Barovero". La Nacion (in Spanish).
  2. ^ "Real Madrid agree loan for goalkeeper Augusto Batalla - River Plate president". ESPN. 14 March 2015.
  3. ^ a b c d "Augusto Batalla, the goalkeeper who wanted Real Madrid and today is no longer valid for River Plate" (in Spanish). Futbol Internacional.
  4. ^ "Discreto debut para Augusto Batalla". Identidad Monumental. Archived from the original on 2018-07-11. Retrieved 2016-12-08.
  5. ^ "Copa Argentina / Web oficial de la Copa Argentina".
  6. ^ "HTML Center".
  7. ^ Germán Lux se marcha a River Plate (Germán Lux goes to River Plate); La Voz de Galicia, 26 June 2017 (in Spanish)
  8. ^ "River Plate will pay the $3 million release clause for Atletico Nacional's Franco Armani. He will sign for 3 years with River". 3 January 2018.
  9. ^ "Batalla en Tucumán". Olé. 5 January 2018.
  10. ^ "Surprise: Batalla leaves Atlético Tucumán". ESPN. 26 June 2018.
  11. ^ "Augusto Batalla will leave Atlético Tucumán". Olé. 25 June 2018.

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