Matías Caruzzo
 Caruzzo with San Lorenzo in 2016 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Matías Nicolás Caruzzo | ||
| Date of birth | August 15, 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||
| Position(s) | Centre back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2003–2005 | Argentinos Juniors | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2006–2010 | Argentinos Juniors | 120 | (4) |
| 2010–2014 | Boca Juniors | 73 | (2) |
| 2014 | Universidad de Chile | 9 | (1) |
| 2014–2015 | Argentinos Juniors | 20 | (0) |
| 2015–2018 | San Lorenzo | 79 | (6) |
| 2018–2019 | Rosario Central | 29 | (2) |
| 2020–2021 | Argentinos Juniors | 5 | (0) |
| Total | 335 | (15) | |
| International career | |||
| 2008–2017 | Argentina | 6 | (0) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Matías Nicolás Caruzzo (born August 15, 1984, in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine former football defender. He last played for Argentinos Juniors.
Playing career
[edit]Club
[edit]Caruzzo came through Argentinos Juniors' youth development system to make his professional debut on March 25, 2006, in a 3–1 away defeat to Gimnasia y Esgrima de Jujuy. He went on to establish himself as an important member of the first-team squad.
Caruzzo was an important member of the Argentinos Juniors team that won the 2010 Clausura championship. He played in all 19 games and scored a vital goal in their 4–3 win against Independiente in the penultimate game of their championship-winning campaign.
Caruzzo followed Claudio Borghi, the 2010 Clausura champion coach of Argentinos Juniors, to Boca Juniors for the dispute of the 2010–11 Argentine Primera División season. Boca paid Argentinos a 2,500,000 US dollar fee, plus a percentage of the future sale.[2] In January 2014, Caruzzo signed a contract with Universidad de Chile for 3 years.[3]
International
[edit]On May 20, 2009, Caruzzo made his international debut in a friendly match against Panama. The Argentine team, made up of players based in the Argentine Primera División, won the game 3–1.
Honours
[edit]Argentinos Juniors
Boca Juniors
San Lorenzo
Rosario Central
References
[edit]- ^ "Matías Caruzzo profile" (in Spanish). Boca Juniors official website. Archived from the original on 2011-02-12. Retrieved 2010-09-05.
- ^ "Caruzzo, finalmente, pasó a Boca". ESPN Deportes (in Spanish). 2010-07-10. Archived from the original on 2011-06-29. Retrieved 2010-07-11.
- ^ "Matías Caruzzo: "Llego a la 'U' para jugar la Copa Libertadores" - LA TERCERA". Retrieved 26 October 2016.
External links
[edit]- Argentine Primera statistics[usurped] at Futbol XXI (in Spanish)
- Matías Caruzzo at National-Football-Teams.com
- Player profile at Football-Lineups.com
- Caruzzo, Matías Nicolás at Historia de Boca.com (in Spanish)
- Matías Caruzzo at Soccerway
- Matías Caruzzo at BDFA (in Spanish)
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- 1984 births
- Living people
- Footballers from Buenos Aires
- Argentine men's footballers
- Argentine expatriate men's footballers
- Argentina men's international footballers
- Men's association football defenders
- Argentinos Juniors footballers
- Boca Juniors footballers
- Club Universidad de Chile footballers
- San Lorenzo de Almagro footballers
- Rosario Central footballers
- Chilean Primera División players
- Argentine Primera División players
- Primera Nacional players
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Chile
- Expatriate men's footballers in Chile
- 21st-century Argentine sportsmen
- Argentine football defender, 1980s birth stubs