Nicolás Tagliafico

Nicolás Alejandro Tagliafico (born 31 August 1992) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left back for Ligue 1 club Lyon and the Argentina national team. He was a member of the Argentina team that won the 2022 FIFA World Cup.

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[1]
Place of birth Rafael Calzada, Argentina
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[1]
Position(s) Left back
Team information
Current team
 Lyon
Number 3
Youth career
–2010 Banfield
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2010–2015 Banfield 90 (2)
2012–2013 → Real Murcia (loan) 27 (0)
2015–2018 Independiente 85 (2)
2018–2022 Ajax 115 (9)
2022– Lyon 40 (2)
International career‡
2007 Argentina U15 2 (0)
2009 Argentina U17 5 (0)
2011 Argentina U20 12 (1)
2017– Argentina 51 (1)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Argentina
FIFA World Cup
Winner2022 Qatar
Copa América
Winner2021 Brazil
Third place2019 Brazil
CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions
Winner2022 England
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 00:16, 24 September 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23 March 2023

Early life

Of Italian origins, his grandparents are from the city of Genoa on the paternal side and Calabrian on the maternal side; he also has Italian citizenship.[2]

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. 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.

Lyon

On 23 July 2022, he joined Ligue 1 club Lyon on a three-year deal until June 2025, for €4.2 million[4]

International career

Tagliafico has played in all the youth categories of the Argentina 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.[5] 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.[6]

In June 2021, he was included in Lionel Scaloni's final Argentina 28-man squad for the 2021 Copa América.[7]

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.

In November 2022, he was named in Argentina's final 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup in Qatar by Scaloni. Tagliafico was part of the starting line-up in the final against France, where Argentina won the World Cup by a score of 4–2 on penalties.[8]

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.[9]

Career statistics

Club
As of match played 23 September 2023[10]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National Cup[lower-alpha 1] Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Banfield 2010–11 Argentine Primera División 9000000090
2011–12 Argentine Primera División 331000000331
2013–14 Primera B Nacional 34021–00361
2014 Argentine Primera División 14100–00141
Total 902210000923
Real Murcia (loan) 2012–13 Segunda División 27010––280
Independiente 2015 Argentine Primera División 311206[lower-alpha 2]000391
2016 Argentine Primera División 161204[lower-alpha 2]03[lower-alpha 3]0251
2016–17 Argentine Primera División 2901011[lower-alpha 2]02[lower-alpha 3]0430
2017–18 Argentine Primera División 9000000090
Total 85250210501162
Ajax 2017–18 Eredivisie 1510000–151
2018–19 Eredivisie 2922115[lower-alpha 4]3–466
2019–20 Eredivisie 2433011[lower-alpha 5]200385
2020–21 Eredivisie 2514011[lower-alpha 6]2–403
2021–22 Eredivisie 222413[lower-alpha 4]01[lower-alpha 7]0303
Total 11591324051016918
Lyon 2022–23 Ligue 1 34140––381
2023–24 Ligue 1 6100––61
Total 40240––442
Career total 357152536156044925
  1. Includes Copa Argentina, Copa del Rey, KNVB Cup and Coupe de France
  2. Appearance(s) in Copa Sudamericana
  3. Appearance(s) in Torneos de Verano
  4. 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 12 September 2023[11]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National teamYearAppsGoals
Argentina 201710
2018110
2019130
202030
202180
2022120
202321
Total501
As of match played 12 September 2023
Scores and results list Argentina's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Tagliafico goal.
List of international goals scored by Nicolás Tagliafico
No.DateVenueCapOpponentScoreResultCompetition
112 September 2023Estadio Hernando Siles, La Paz, Bolivia50 Bolivia2–03–02026 FIFA World Cup qualification

Honours

Independiente[12]

Ajax[12]

Argentina[12]

Individual

References
  1. "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. Ajax, Tagliafico towards Juventus: "Ronaldo defends himself as a team", La Gazzetta dello Sport
  3. "Closing '11 statistics". Argentine Soccer. Retrieved 27 July 2011.
  4. "OL.fr - Olympique Lyonnais".
  5. "Argentina: Paulo Dybala completes star quartet as big name misses out". independent.co.uk. The Independent. 21 May 2018. Archived from the original on 20 June 2022. Retrieved 6 April 2020.
  6. "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.
  7. "Argentina National Team Squad 2021". Diario AS. 15 June 2021.
  8. "Argentina 3–3 France (Argentina wins 4–2 on penalties)". FIFA. 18 December 2022.
  9. "Nicolás Tagliafico: the New Javier Zanetti?". Mediolana. 14 August 2011. Retrieved 3 January 2014.
  10. "N. Tagliafico". Soccerway. Perform Group. Retrieved 5 March 2019.
  11. "Nicolás Tagliafico". National Football Teams. Benjamin Strack-Zimmermann. Retrieved 21 June 2018.
  12. "Nicolás Tagliafico - Career Honours". Soccerway.
  13. "Neres' stoppage-time goal seals Dutch Cup win". Ajax website. 18 April 2021. Retrieved 18 April 2021.
  14. Murray, Scott (18 December 2022). "Argentina beat France on penalties after thrilling World Cup final – live reaction". the Guardian. Retrieved 18 December 2022.
  15. Graham, Bryan Armen (11 July 2021). "Argentina 1-0 Brazil: Copa América final – live!". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 July 2021.
  16. "Italy 0–3 Argentina: Messi and Di Maria shine in impressive Finalissima win". BBC Sport. 1 June 2022. Retrieved 2 June 2022.
  17. "Nicolás Tagliafico uitgeroepen tot Speler van de Maand november | Eredivisie". eredivisie.nl. 6 December 2018.
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