Mateo Musacchio

Mateo Musacchio
Mateo Musacchio (2012)
Personnel
Surname	Mateo Pablo Musacchio
birthday	August 26, 1990
place of birth	Rosario ,  Argentina
size	182 cm
position	Central defender
Juniors
Years	station
1999-2006	River Plate
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
2006-2009	River Plate	10 (0)
2009-2010	Villarreal CF B	22 (3)
2009-2017	Villarreal CF	189 (7)
2017–	AC Milan	62 (1)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
2006-2007	Argentina U-17	15 (1)
2008-2010	Argentina U-20	3 (0)
2011	Argentina	6 (0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: end of season 2019/20 2 As of June 30, 2017

Mateo Musacchio (born August 26, 1990 in Rosario ) is an Argentine football player who plays for AC Milan and the Argentine national team . He prefers to play as a central defender .

Career

Club career

Musacchio started his professional career in 2006 with River Plate in the first Argentine soccer league . He had his first use at the age of 16 when he came on on December 10, 2006 in a game against CA Vélez Sársfield . In the following years he gained his first professional experience before moving to the Spanish first division club Villarreal in August 2009 .

In his first season in Spain he was used for both the first and the second team of the club, but in the 2010/11 season , with 27 appearances, he was already part of the professional squad. Also in the following two seasons he was a regular player, with the team relegated from the first division. On September 1, 2012 in a game against CD Guadalajara , he scored his first goal for the first team. After a year in the 2nd division, coach Marcelino García Toral's team made a direct return to the Primera División in the summer of 2013.

For the 2017/18 season he moved to the Italian first division club AC Milan after 189 league games for Villareal .

National team

In 2011, Musacchio, who had already played several youth national teams, came to his only appearances for the senior national team of Argentina. On June 1, 2011, he played 27 minutes against Nigeria , four days later in a 2-1 draw against Poland , he played his first full-distance game.

Web links

• Mateo Musacchio in the database of weltfussball.de
• Profile on national-football-teams.com