Nicolás Tagliafico

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Nicolás Tagliafico
Argentina team in St. Petersburg (cropped).jpg
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 29)[1]
Place of birth Rafael Calzada, Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Position(s) Left back
Club 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 108 (8)
National team‡
2007 Argentina U15 2 (0)
2009 Argentina U17 5 (0)
2011 Argentina U20 12 (1)
2017– Argentina 37 (0)
Honours
Men's football
Representing  Argentina
Copa América
Winner 2021 Brazil
Third place 2019 Brazil
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 23:28, 20 March 2022 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 January 2022

Nicolás Alejandro Tagliafico (born 31 August 1992) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left back for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Argentina national team.

Club career[]

Banfield[]

Tagliafico made his professional debut for Club Atlético 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. Since then he has played over 100 league games for the club and scored 7 league goals and became a starter for the team in 2019.

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]

In June 2021, he was included in Lionel Scaloni's final Argentina 28-man squad for the 2021 Copa América.[6]

He is the only foreign player to became champion at club level (Independiente, Sudamericana 2017) and at international level (Argentina, Copa América 2021) at the Maracaná stadium.

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, and nationality, and striking visual resemblance Tagliafico has been compared to the Internazionale and Argentina full-back Javier Zanetti, formerly also of Banfield.[7]

Career statistics[]

Club[]

As of match played 20 March 2022[8]
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 Argentine Primera División 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 9 0
2011–12 Argentine Primera División 33 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 33 1
2013–14 Primera B Nacional 34 0 2 1 – 0 0 36 1
2014 Argentine 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 Argentine Primera División 31 1 2 0 6[b] 0 0 0 39 1
2016 Argentine Primera División 16 1 2 0 4[b] 0 3[c] 0 25 1
2016–17 Argentine Primera División 29 0 1 0 11[b] 0 2[c] 0 43 0
2017–18 Argentine Primera División 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 Eredivisie 29 2 2 1 15[d] 3 – 46 6
2019–20 Eredivisie 24 3 3 0 11[e] 2 0 0 38 5
2020–21 Eredivisie 25 1 4 0 11[f] 0 – 40 1
2021–22 Eredivisie 15 1 4 1 3[d] 0 1[g] 0 23 2
Total 108 8 13 2 40 5 1 0 162 15
Career total 310 12 21 3 61 5 6 0 398 20
  1. ^ Includes Copa Argentina, Copa del Rey and KNVB Cup
  2. ^ a b c Appearance(s) in Copa Sudamericana
  3. ^ a b Appearance(s) in Torneos de Verano
  4. ^ a b Appearance(s) in UEFA Champions League
  5. ^ Ten appearances and two goals in UEFA Champions League, one appearance in UEFA Europa League
  6. ^ Six appearances and two goals in UEFA Champions League, five appearances in UEFA Europa League
  7. ^ Appearance in Johan Cruyff Shield

International[]

As of match played 27 January 2022[9]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Argentina 2017 1 0
2018 11 0
2019 13 0
2020 3 0
2021 8 0
2022 1 0
Total 37 0

Honours[]

Independiente[10]

Ajax[10]

Argentina[10]

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 11 June 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. ^ "Argentina National Team Squad 2021". Diario AS. 15 June 2021.
  7. ^ "Nicolás Tagliafico: the New Javier Zanetti?". Mediolana. 14 August 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  8. ^ "N. Tagliafico". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  9. ^ "Nicolás Tagliafico". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  10. ^ a b c "Nicolás Tagliafico - Career Honours". Soccerway.
  11. ^ "Neres' stoppage-time goal seals Dutch Cup win". Ajax website. 18 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.

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