Marcelo Saracchi

Marcelo Saracchi
Marcelo Saracchi (2018)
Personnel
Surname	Marcelo Josemir Saracchi Pintos
birthday	April 23, 1998
place of birth	Paysandú ,  Uruguay
size	172 cm
position	midfield
Juniors
Years	station
	Danubio FC
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2015-2017	Danubio FC	54 (3)
2017-2018	River Plate	19 (0)
2018–	RB Leipzig	13 (1)
2020–	→  Galatasaray Istanbul  (loan)	14 (2)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2012-2013	Uruguay U15	15 (2)
2014-2015	Uruguay U17	24 (4)
2015-2017	Uruguay U20	24 (0)
2018–	Uruguay	1 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: July 24, 2020 2 As of October 7, 2018

Marcelo Josemir Saracchi Pintos (born April 23, 1998 in Paysandú ) is a Uruguayan football player . The midfielder is on loan from RB Leipzig to Galatasaray Istanbul .

Career

society

The 1.72 meter tall left defender Saracchi comes from the youth department of Danubio FC . He has been in the professional squad of the Montevideans since the Apertura 2015 at the latest . In the professional field, he made his debut on August 12, 2015 as part of the Copa Sudamericana as a substitute in the 77th minute of play for Ignacio González in the 0-1 defeat against the Chilean club CD Universidad Católica . He made his debut in the Primera División on August 16, 2015 in a 2-0 away win against Juventud , when he was also substituted on by coach Jorge Castelli in the 63rd minute for Leandro Sosa . In the 2015/16 season, he played 30 first division matches (one goal) and two games (no goal) in the 2015 Copa Sudamericana . This was followed by 14 more first division appearances (no goal) during the 2016 season. In the 2017 season, Saracchi completed ten league games and scored two goals.

In September 2017 he moved to Argentina to join River Plate . He played 19 league games (without scoring).

For the 2018/19 season, Saracchi moved to the Bundesliga for RB Leipzig . He signed a contract that ran until June 30, 2023. Saracchi made his Bundesliga debut on matchday 1 in the game against Borussia Dortmund , which ended in a 1: 4 defeat.

In October 2018 Saracchi was nominated as one of 40 worldwide U21 talents for the Golden Boy Award 2018 of the Italian sports newspaper Tuttosport .

With the 3-0 winning goal in the league game against Werder Bremen, he scored his first Bundesliga goal on September 21, 2019 in his second season for RB Leipzig. After only seven competitive games (1 goal) in the 2019/20 season , Leipzig awarded the Uruguayans to the Turkish first division club Galatasaray for 18 months in January 2020 .

National team

On September 23, 2018, Marcelo Saracchi was nominated for the first time for the Uruguayan national team by Uruguay's national coach Oscar Tabarez . There he made his debut in the friendly against South Korea on October 12, 2018 when he came on for Diego Laxalt in the 84th minute .

Before that, he played for the U15, U17 and U20 national teams of his home country.

In the U15, Saracchi made his debut on November 13, 2012 under coach Alejandro Garay in a 2-1 win in a friendly against Newell's Old Boys in the U-15 national team of Uruguay. He took part with the team at the U-15 South American Championship in Bolivia in 2013 , where Uruguay finished sixth. He also took part in the Caspian Cup in Baku, Azerbaijan . He made a total of 15 international matches in this age group and scored two goals.

In the Uruguayan U-17 selection , he was used for the first time by the responsible coach Santiago Ostolaza in the 3-0 away win in the friendly international against Paraguay on May 13, 2014. He was a member of the squad at the U-17 South American Championship in Paraguay in 2015 , in which Uruguay finished 5th. In the U17 he has made 24 international appearances and four goals.

On May 11, 2015, he was used by Fabián Coito for the first time in the 2-1 defeat in the friendly international game against Honduras in the Uruguayan U20 . Up to and including May 28, 2015, he played four international matches in the U20 (no goal). He also took part with the team in the 2015 U-20 World Cup in New Zealand , played from the end of May to June 20, 2015 , in which Uruguay failed in the round of 16 on penalties to Brazil. During the tournament he was used once (no goal). Saracchi played a total of 24 international matches for the U20s in Uruguay. He couldn't score any goals.

Web links

• Marcelo Saracchi in the database of transfermarkt.de
• Marcelo Saracchi in the database of weltfussball.de

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Marcelo Saracchi - player profile 18/19. Retrieved June 26, 2019 . 
2. ↑ Universidad Católica vs. Danubio 1 - 0 on soccerway.com, accessed April 4, 2016
3. ↑ Siete futbolistas debutaron en 1ª ( Memento of the original dated August 11, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) from auf.org.uy, accessed April 4, 2016 
4. ↑ Juventud vs. Danubio 0-2 on soccerway.com, accessed April 4, 2016
5. ^ Profile on soccerway.com , accessed February 3, 2017
6. ↑ Second newcomer: Marcelo Saracchi moves to RB Leipzig! ( Memento of the original from June 15, 2018 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , dierotenbullen.com, accessed June 12, 2018 
7. ↑ Tactical line-up Borussia Dortmund - RB Leipzig 4: 1 , kicker.de, accessed on October 7, 2018
8. ↑ Golden Boy Award: Mbappé big favorite, shortlist announced , eurosport.de, accessed on October 7, 2018
9. ↑ RB Leipzigs Saracchi changes to Galatasaray Istanbul , sportbuzzer.de, accessed on January 4, 2020
10. ↑ Marcelo Saracchi is nominated for the first time for Uruguay's national team on 90min.de, accessed on October 7, 2018
11. ↑ South Korea Uruguay 2: 1 on kicker.de, accessed on October 12, 2018
12. ↑ ^{a b} 13 - MARCELO SARACCHI (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 4, 2016
13. ↑ Sudamericano Sub-15 - Bolivia 2013 (Spanish) on auf.org.uy, accessed on April 4, 2016
14. ↑ La Sub 15 se despidió con victoria ( Memento of the original from April 4, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) from auf.org.uy, accessed April 4, 2016 
15. ↑ Estadísticas del plantel sub-20 ( Memento of the original dated August 24, 2017 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. (Spanish) from auf.org.uy, accessed April 4, 2016 
16. ↑ Profile on fifa.com , accessed on March 17, 2016
17. ↑ National player profile on transfermarkt.com on transfermarkt.com, accessed on October 7, 2018