Lucas Boyé

Lucas Boyé

Personal information
Full name	Lucas Boyé
Date of birth	(1996-02-28) 28 February 1996
Place of birth	San Gregorio, Argentina
Height
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Newell's Old Boys (on loan from River Plate)
Number	31
Youth career
2007–2014	River Plate
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2014–	River Plate	29	(2)
2015–2016	→ Newell's Old Boys (loan)	13	(1)
2016–	Torino	0	(0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 20 August 2014 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 20 August 2014

Lucas Boyé (born 28 February 1996) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Newell's Old Boys. On 1 February 2016 he signed a contract that will tie him to Italian club Torino for four seasons, starting in July 2016. He is nicknamed El Toro.

Club career

Boyé was called up by Ramon Diaz for River Plate's pre-season in Salta in January of 2014. His unofficial debut took place on January 29th 2014 in a friendly against San Lorenzo de Almagro at the Estadio Padre Ernesto Martearena in Salta, when he replaced Jonathan Fabbro 23 minutes into the second half. River Plate lost the match to San Lorenzo 1-3.

Soon after he returned to play for the first team in another friendly, this time against the provincial team of San Luis, entering at the beginning of the second half to replace Daniel Villalba in a match which River Plate won 3-1. He made his official debut against Ferro in the final tournament of the 2013–14 Copa Argentina, in a match which River Plate won 6-5 in a penalty shootout.

His debut in the Argentine Primera División came in a 1-1 tie against Gimnasia y Esgrima on the first day of the 2014 Torneo de Transición. Four days later, on the 31st of August, Boyé scored his first goal in the Primera División off an assist from Tomas Martinez, the third in a match which River won 3-1 against San Lorenzo.

Honours

River Plate

• Copa Sudamericana: 2014