Vicente Matías Vuoso
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| Matías Vuoso | ||
| Personal information | ||
|---|---|---|
| Full name | Vicente José Matías Vuoso | |
| Date of birth | November 3, 1981 | |
| Place of birth | Mar del Plata, Argentina | |
| Height | 1.75 m (5 ft 9 in) | |
| Playing position | Striker | |
| Club information | ||
| Current club | Santos Laguna | |
| Number | 30 | |
| Senior clubs1 | ||
| Years | Club | App (Gls)* |
| 2000-2002 2002-2003 2003-2006 2006 2007- |
Independiente Manchester City Santos Laguna Club América Santos Laguna |
65 (14) 0 (0) 98 (54) 16 (4) 45 (10) |
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1 Senior club appearances and goals |
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Vicente José Matías Vuoso (born November 3, 1981 in Mar del Plata, Argentina) is an Argentine-Mexican [1] football striker, who currently plays for Santos Laguna of the Primera División de México.
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[edit] Playing career
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. 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 "Warriors of the Santos Laguna" before his move to Club América in May 2006.
Vuoso was bought by Santos again after Clausura 2007 for an undisclosed amount of money. Upom his return a drastic loss of form kept Vuoso on the bench. During the Clausura 2008 Vuoso was a key player in Santos Laguna's championship.
Vuoso has become a natuarlized Mexican citizen. Upon receiving his citizenship in Mexico, Vuoso clearly stated that if Hugo Sanchez, former coach of the Mexico national football team, ever needed a striker, Vuoso would be more than honored to wear the famous green shirt and help win for the country that has given him a home. However, he has not been called for the team just yet.
[edit] Victim of bank theft
Whilst he was with Manchester City, he, along with players Daniel Van Buyten and Djamel Belmadi, were the victim of a theft by two bankers. In total workers at the Co-operative Bank stole more than £350,000 from the accounts of the three players.
In January 2006[1][2], the bank workers, Paul Sherwood, a cashier, and Paul Hanley, his supervisor, were jailed for 32 months and 12 months respectively.
[edit] References
- ^ Two bankers admit theft from City players. news.lifestyle.co.uk. Retrieved on May 25, 2007.
- ^ Jail after thefts from football stars. thescotsman.com. Retrieved on May 25, 2007.
[edit] External links
- Guardian statistics
- (Spanish)Argentine Primera Statistics
- (Spanish) Profile/Stats
- Article on Vuoso's stay at Man City
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