Giovani Lo Celso

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Giovani Lo Celso
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Giovani Lo Celso (2020)
Personnel
birthday April 9, 1996
place of birth Rosario ,  Argentina
size 177 cm
position Attacking midfield
Juniors
Years station
0000–2015 Rosario Central
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
2015-2016 Rosario Central 36 (3)
2017-2018 Paris Saint-Germain 38 (4)
2018-2019 Betis Seville 32 (9)
2019– Tottenham Hotspur 19 (0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals) 2
2016 Argentina Olympics 3 (0)
2017– Argentina 19 (2)
1 Only league games are given.
As of March 14, 2020

2 As of July 7, 2019

Giovani Lo Celso (born April 9, 1996 in Rosario , Santa Fe ) is an Argentine football player . The attacking midfielder is under contract with Tottenham Hotspur .

Career

societies

Lo Celso in the Betis Sevilla jersey (2019)

Lo Celso went through all of Rosario Central's youth departments . On July 15, 2015, he made his debut in the Argentine Primera División in a 0-0 draw against CA Vélez Sársfield .

At the end of July 2016, Lo Celso was signed by Paris Saint-Germain and given a five-year contract dated June 30, 2021. However, he played the 2016 season on loan at Rosario Central until the end of the year. Lo Celso finally joined the Paris Saint-Germain squad on January 1, 2017. By the end of the 2017/18 season Lo Celso made 4 league appearances (one in the starting XI) under head coach Unai Emery . At the end of the season he won the national cup and the league cup with the team . In July 2017, he and the team won the French Supercup . In the 2017/18 season he was increasingly used under Emery. Of his 33 league appearances in which he scored 4 goals, he was only in the starting line-up in 18. This season PSG won the championship and again the cup and league cup. In August 2018, he won the French Supercup for the second time.

On August 31, 2018 Lo Celso moved to the Spanish Primera División to Betis Sevilla on loan until the end of the 2018/19 season , which also secured a purchase option for the midfielder. After 27 league appearances in which he scored 8 goals, Betis Sevilla withdrew the option to buy in mid-April 2019 and provided him with a contract that runs until June 30, 2023. Overall, Lo Celso came in his first season at Betis on 32 league appearances, in which he scored 9 goals.

Shortly before the start of the 2019/20 season, Lo Celso moved to Tottenham Hotspur for a year on loan in the Premier League . After 14 league appearances under his compatriot Mauricio Pochettino and his successor José Mourinho , the club acquired the transfer rights to Lo Celso at the end of January, who signed a new contract with a term until June 30, 2025.

National team

2016 Olympic Games in Brazil

Lo Celso was appointed to the Argentine squad for the 2016 Summer Olympics in Rio de Janeiro . On August 4, 2016, Lo Celso made his debut with Argentina U23 in the 2-0 loss to Portugal when he came on for Cristian Espinoza in the 72nd minute. There he was used in all three group games of his team, which finished the team behind Portugal and Honduras in third place and was eliminated.

A national team

On November 11, 2017 Lo Celso made his debut with the national team of Argentina in a 1-0 win against Russia in the starting line-up. In May 2018, he was called up for Argentina’s qualifiers for the 2018 World Cup in Russia and made it to the tournament's squad.

Lo Celso played at the 2019 Copa América in Brazil . In the quarter-finals he scored the second goal for Argentina in a 2-0 win over Venezuela on June 28th and reached the semi-finals, which were lost to Brazil. In the game for third place, Lo Celso won with Argentina against defending champions Chile 2-1 and provided the assist for the second goal by Paulo Dybala .

successes

In the club
In the national team

Web links

Commons : Giovani Lo Celso  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paris Saint-Germain: Giovani Lo Celso signs five-year contract with Paris Saint-Germain , July 26, 2016, accessed August 8, 2016.
  2. ^ Paris Saint-Germain: First training for Giovani Lo Celso , January 1, 2017, accessed January 1, 2017.
  3. ^ Paris Saint-Germain: Giovani Lo Celso loaned to Real Betis , August 31, 2018, accessed September 1, 2018.
  4. ↑ Real Betis activate the purchase option on Giovani Lo Celso , realbetisbalompie.es, April 16, 2019, accessed on April 16, 2019.
  5. ↑ Lo Celso loan agreed , tottenhamhotspur.com, August 8, 2019, accessed August 8, 2019.
  6. ↑ Lo Celso transfer confirmed / Eriksen to Inter , tottenhamhotspur.com, January 28, 2020, accessed on January 28, 2020.
  7. ↑ Portugal U23 vs. Argentina U23 - Football Match Line-Ups - August 4, 2016 - ESPN. Accessed July 7, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Russia vs. Argentina - Football Match Report - November 11, 2017 - ESPN. Accessed July 7, 2019 .
  9. ↑ Revealed: Every World Cup 2018 squad - Final 23-man lists | Goal.com. Retrieved July 7, 2019 .
  10. ↑ Venezuela vs. Argentina - Football Match Report - June 28, 2019 - ESPN. Accessed July 7, 2019 .
  11. ↑ Copa America: Messi red card, Argentina finished third . In: Spiegel Online . July 6, 2019 ( spiegel.de [accessed July 7, 2019]).
personal data
SURNAME Lo Celso, Giovani
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player
DATE OF BIRTH April 9, 1996
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosario , Argentina