Nicolás Alejandro Tagliafico (born 31 August 1992) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left back for Ligue 1 club Lyon and the Argentina national team.
On 5 January 2018, Tagliafico made the move to Ajax for a fee of £4 million and made his professional debut for the club during a 2−0 home win against Feyenoord on 21 January 2018 in the Klassieker. Since then Tagliafico has played over 100 league games for the club and scored 7 league goals and became a starter for the team in 2019.
On 23 July 2022, Tagliafico joined Ligue 1 club Lyon on a three-year deal until June 2025, for €4.2 million. In May 2018, Tagliafico was named in Argentina’s final 23 man squad for the 2018 World Cup in Russia. Tagliafico also played the 2019 Copa América, and took with Argentina the third place, through a 2–1 victory over Chile in the third-place match.
In June 2021, Tagliafico was included in Lionel Scaloni’s final Argentina 28-man squad for the 2021 Copa América. Tagliafico is the only foreign player to became champion at club level (Independiente, Sudamericana 2017) and at international level (Argentina, Copa América 2021) at the Maracaná stadium.
Tagliafico is noted for his “lung-busting stamina, excellent technique and continuous enterprise”. As a result of his skills, as well as his playing position and club, and nationality, and striking visual resemblance Tagliafico has been compared to the Internazionale and Argentina full-back Javier Zanetti, formerly also of Banfield.
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