Vicente Matías Vuoso

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Personal information
Matías Vuoso
Full name	Vicente José Matías Vuoso
Date of birth	November 3, 1981 (age 25)
Place of birth	Mar del Plata, Argentina
Height	179 cm (5'10")
Playing position	Striker
Club information
Current club	Santos Laguna
Number	11.
Senior clubs¹
Years	Club	App (Gls)*
2000-02 2002-03 2003-06 2006 2007	Independiente Manchester City F.C. Santos Laguna Club América Santos Laguna	63 (14) 0 (0) 102 (57) 20 (5) 0 (0)
National team²
N/A	Argentina	0 (0)
¹ Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of December 26, 2006. ² National team caps and goals correct as of August 5, 2006. * Appearances (Goals)

Vicente José Matías Vuoso (born November 3, 1981 in Mar del Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine football striker, who currently plays for Santos Laguna of the Primera División de México.

Matías Vuoso began his career in Argentina with Independiente. Playing alongside Diego Forlán, Vicente scored seven goals in 29 games for Independiente in 2000/01, and another seven in 35 games in 2001/02. He left the club in June 2002 to sign with English club Manchester City, joining for 3.5 million pounds. However, Vuoso was quite unsuccessful with Manchester City, not appearing in a single game, and was loaned out to Santos Laguna for the 2003/04 season.

Despite moving to a league with less prestige than the EPL, in the beginning of his stay in Mexico Vuoso was faced with the same problems at Santos Laguna than he was at Manchester City. Coming to a club that already boasted an impressive attack that featured Chilean playmaker Rodrigo Ruiz and legendary Mexican striker Jared Borgetti, Vuoso was exclusively played as a substitute during the first part of the Apertura 2003 season. As fate would have it however, Vuoso was thrown into the starting mix when Borgetti suffered a minor injury that required a two week absence from the pitch. Vuoso scored in both of the games he started in place of Borgetti and subsequently convinced Santos manager Luis Fernando Tena, who awarded Vuoso a starting job.

After Borgetti's exit from Santos Laguna following the Clausura 2004 season, Vuoso became Santos Laguna's main goalscoring threat and teammate Rodrigo Ruiz's primary target for his lethal passes. Vuoso exploded with 11 goals in 17 games for Santos in the Apertura 2004 campaign and then followed that up with 16 goals in 19 games the following season. All in all, Vuoso's successful stay at Santos produced 57 goals in 102 games for the "Holy Warriors of the Laguna" before his move to Club América in May of 2006.

Vuoso has been loaned to Santos Laguna in late 2006 for 6 Months with an option to buy for 3.5 Million Dollars in an effort to prevent the team from being relegated to "Primera A"