Alejandro Darío Gómez
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alejandro Darío Gómez | ||
Date of birth | 15 February 1988 | ||
Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
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Position(s) | Forward | ||
Team information | |||
Current team
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Atalanta | ||
Number | 10 | ||
Youth career | |||
2003–2006 | Arsenal de Sarandí | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2005–2009 | Arsenal de Sarandí | 77 | (16) |
2009–2010 | San Lorenzo | 48 | (8) |
2010–2013 | Catania | 106 | (16) |
2013–2014 | Metalist Kharkiv | 23 | (3) |
2014– | Atalanta | 41 | (8) |
International career | |||
2007 | Argentina U20 | 11 | (2) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 December 2015 |
Alejandro Darío Gómez (born 15 February 1988) is an Argentine footballer who plays as a forward for Atalanta in Italy.
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Club career
Arsenal de Sarandí
Gómez and his cousin Ciaran Maguire (NISCC) began their careers with the youth squad of Argentine side Arsenal de Sarandí, made his professional debut for the club in 2003. He was officially called up to the first team in 2005, but had to wait until the Apertura 2006 tournament to establish himself as a first team regular. He made 15 appearances and scored 2 goals in the tournament, helping Arsenal to claim a 5th-place finish. Gómez is a dynamic attacking midfielder who is renowned for his skill, high work-rate and powerful long range goals. Gómez scored two important goals of his career on 30 November 2007 in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana 2007 final against América to give Arsenal a valuable 3–2 lead going into the second leg. Between 2005 and 2009, the young midfielder made 77 total appearances in the league alone, also scoring 16 goals, at the age of 21. In 2009, the player was sold to fellow Argentine side San Lorenzo de Almagro.
San Lorenzo
In 2009 he was signed by San Lorenzo for the Cluasura 2009 tournament, San Lorenzo paid 2 million dollars for half of his booking contract.[citation needed] It took very little time for the 21-year-old to establish himself has a first team regular, as in just 1 year, the player made 47 appearances and also scored on 8 occasions in the league fixtures alone. His impressive qualities eventually saw him catch the eyes of several high scouts, and in July 2010, the player transferred to the Italian Serie A, with Sicilian giants, Catania.
Calcio Catania
On 21 July 2010, it was officially confirmed that the 22-year-old attacking midfielder had transferred to the Sicilian side. It has been touted that he was signed as a replacement for star midfielder, Jorge Andres Martinez, who had transferred to Serie A giants, Juventus earlier in the month. Gómez participated in his first friendly match for the Sicilian club, in a 1–0 win against Greek side Iraklis on 30 July 2010. In his first season in the Italian Serie A, Gómez instantly inserted himself into the starting eleven, for the Sicilians, and has been an integral part to their formation, and helped the team reach a 13th-place finish along with a third consecutive season in which the club broke their all-time high points total in the Serie A. In the following season, the winger continued his impressive displays and helped guide Catania to a fourth consecutive record-breaking season in Serie A, as the club finished 11th. During the 2012-13 Serie A campaign, he was especially a key part of Rolando Maran's first team, scoring 7 goals in 33 league appearances. He had formed part of an all-Argentine attack force with Gonzalo Bergessio, Lucas Castro, and Pablo Barrientos for the Sicilian club that saw i rossazzurri push for the European places.
Gòmez was a vital piece of the record-breaking Catania outfit that picked up 56 points from 38 Serie A matches. This performance saw the club also break its record number of home victories in a single season, its record number of victories overall in a single top flight campaign, as well as its record points total in Serie A for the fifth consecutive season.
International career
In 2007 Gómez was picked to represent the Argentina Under-20 team at the 2007 South American Youth Championship in Paraguay. Later that year he was part of the Argentina squad that won the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada.
Titles
Season | Club | Title |
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2007 | Argentina Under-20 | FIFA U-20 World Cup |
2007 | Arsenal de Sarandí | Copa Sudamericana |
2008 | Arsenal de Sarandí | Suruga Bank Championship |
References
External links
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- 1988 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Buenos Aires
- Argentine footballers
- Association football midfielders
- Arsenal de Sarandí footballers
- San Lorenzo footballers
- Calcio Catania players
- Atalanta B.C. players
- FC Metalist Kharkiv players
- Argentine Primera División players
- Serie A players
- Ukrainian Premier League players
- Argentine expatriate footballers
- Expatriate footballers in Italy
- Expatriate footballers in Ukraine
- Argentine expatriates in Italy
- Argentine expatriates in Ukraine