Argentine association football player

Nicolás Alejandro Tagliafico ( bear 31 August 1992 ) is an Argentine professional football player who plays as a leave back for Eredivisie club Ajax and the Argentina national team .

Club career [edit ]

Banfield [edit ]

Tagliafico made his professional debut for Banfield on a 2−1 away victory against Tigre for the one-fifth fastness of the 2011 Clausura, coming on as a substitute on the 72nd minute. [ 3 ] due to Marcelo Bustamante ‘s ban, he was a crank the follow game, a 2−2 reap with Huracán. [ 3 ] In 2012, Tagliafico signed a annual loan deal with spanish club Real Murcia.

Independiente [edit ]

In 2015, he made the move to Independiente for an undisclosed transfer fee and made his professional introduction 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 [edit ]

On 5 January 2018, Tagliafico made the motivate to Ajax for a fee of £4 million and made his professional introduction for the club during a 2−0 home acquire against Feyenoord on 21 January 2018 in the Klassieker. Since then he has played over 90 league games for the club and scored 7 league goals and became a starter for the team in 2019 .

International career [edit ]

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 complain 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 team for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. [ 4 ] He besides played the 2019 Copa América, and took with Argentina the third identify, 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 team for the 2021 Copa América. [ 6 ] He is the only extraneous player to became champion at club level ( Independiente, Sudamericana 2017 ) and at external floor ( Argentina, Copa América 2021 ) at the Maracaná stadium .

style of play [edit ]

He is noted for his “ lung-busting stamina, excellent technique and continuous enterprise ”. As a consequence of his skills, arsenic well as his playing side and club, Tagliafico has been compared to the Internazionale and Argentina full-back Javier Zanetti, once besides of Banfield. [ 7 ]

career statistics [edit ]

cabaret [edit ]

As of match played 24 October 2021[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 6 1 0 0 0 0 1[g] 0 7 1
Total 99 8 9 1 37 5 1 0 146 14
Career total 301 12 17 2 58 5 6 0 382 19

International [edit ]

As of match played 10 October 2021[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
Total 36 0

Honours [edit ]

Independiente [ 10 ]
Ajax [ 10 ]
Argentina [ 10 ]
Individual

  • Eredivisie Player of the Month: November 2018

References [edit ]