| Intro | Argentine footballer | ||||
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| From | Argentina | ||||
| Type | Sports | ||||
| Gender | male | ||||
| Birth | 31 August 1992, Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||
| Age: | 27 years | ||||
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Nicolás Alejandro Tagliafico (born August 31, 1992) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a left-back for Club Atlético Independiente. Because of his “lung-busting stamina, excellent technique and continuous enterprise”,as well as his playing position and club, he has been compared to the Internazionale and Argentina left-sided player Javier Zanetti, formerly also of Banfield.
Club career
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. Due to Marcelo Bustamante’s ban, he was a starter the following game, a 2–2 draw with Huracán. In 2012, Tagliafico signed a one-year loan deal with Spanish club Real Murcia.
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.
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).