Santiago Askasibar ( Spanish: Santiago Ascacibar ; born February 25, 1997 , La Plata , Argentina ) - Argentine footballer , midfielder of the Stuttgart club and the Argentina national team . Participant of the Olympic Games 2016 in Rio de Janeiro .
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| Full name | Santiago Askacibar | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Nickname | “Russian” (Ruso), “Little Giant” (El Pequeño Gigante) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Was born | February 25, 1997 (22 years) La Plata , Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Citizenship |  Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Growth | 169 cm | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Weight | 67 kg | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position | midfielder | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Club |  Stuttgart | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| room | 6 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Club career
Ascibar is a graduate of the Estudiantes Club from his hometown. In 2016, he was included in the application of the main team. February 8 in the match against the " Lanus " Santiago made his debut in the Argentine Example [1] . In June of the same year, Russian Spartak and Rubin showed interest in Ascibar services [2] .
In the summer of 2017, Santiago moved to the German “ Stuttgart ” [3] , although before that he had almost signed a contract with the Russian “ Zenith ” [4] . The agreement was signed until 2022. The transfer amount was 8.5 million euros. On September 10, in the match against Schalke 04 , he made his debut in the Bundesliga [5] .
International Career
In the summer of 2016, Santiago, as part of the Olympic team of Argentina, took part in the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro . In the tournament he played in matches against teams of Portugal [6] , Algeria [7] and Honduras [8] .
In 2017, Askasibar took part in the youth national team of Argentina in the youth championship of South America in Ecuador . He played in the tournament against Peru [9] , Bolivia , Colombia [10] , Brazil [11] , Ecuador [12] , Venezuela [13] and Uruguay [14] [15] .
In the same year, Askasibar took part in the World Youth Championship in South Korea . In the tournament he played in matches against the teams of Guinea [16] , England [17] and South Korea [18] .
On September 8, 2018, Askabibar made his debut for the national team of Argentina in a friendly against Guatemala , replacing Leandro Paredes in the second half [19] .
Accusations of racism
During the Olympic Games in Brazil in the match against Honduras, striker Anthony Lozano accused Ascibar of racist statements against him.
“Argentine Askasibar made racist remarks, so I wanted to silence him by scoring a goal. It may be wrong, but I decided to celebrate the goal in this way ” [20] .
Notes
- ↑ Estudiantes VS. Lanus 0: 1 (eng.) . soccerway.com (8 February 2016).
- Сп “Spartak” and “Ruby” want to rent midfielder “Estudiantes” Ascibar . sports.ru (June 11, 2016).
- ↑ Argentine midfielder Ascibar, whom Zenit wanted to buy, moved to Stuttgart . sports.ru (August 22, 2017).
- ↑ Nuevo Diario: Ascibar’s transfer to Zenit failed due to poor bank guarantees . sports.ru (August 8, 2017).
- ↑ Schalke 04 VS. Stuttgart 3: 1 (English) . soccerway.com (10 September 2017).
- ↑ Portugal (up to 23) VS. Argentina (up to 23) 2: 0 (English) . soccerway.com (4 August 2016).
- ↑ Argentina (up to 23) VS. Algeria (up to 23) 2: 1 . soccerway.com (August 7, 2016).
- ↑ Argentina (up to 23) VS. Honduras (up to 23) 1: 1 (English) . soccerway.com (10 August 2016).
- ↑ Argentina (up to 20) VS. Peru (up to 20) 1: 1 (English) . soccerway.com (20 January 2017).
- ↑ Colombia (up to 20) VS. Argentina (up to 20) 1: 2 (English) . soccerway.com (2 February 2017).
- ↑ Brazil (up to 20) VS. Argentina (up to 20) 2: 2 (English) . soccerway.com (9 February 2017).
- ↑ Ecuador (up to 20) VS. Argentina (up to 20) 3: 0 (English) . soccerway.com (6 February 2017).
- ↑ Argentina (up to 20) VS. Venezuela (up to 20) 2: 0 (English) . soccerway.com (11 February 2017).
- ↑ Argentina (up to 20) VS. Uruguay (up to 20) 3: 3 (English) . soccerway.com (22 January 2017).
- ↑ Uruguay (up to 20) VS. Argentina (up to 20) 3: 0 (English) . soccerway.com (31 January 2017).
- ↑ Guinea (up to 20) VS. Argentina (up to 20) 0: 5 (English) . soccerway.com (26 May 2017).
- ↑ Argentina (up to 20) VS. England (up to 20) 0: 3 (English) . soccerway.com (20 May 2017).
- ↑ South Korea (up to 20) VS. Argentina (up to 20) 2: 1 (English) . soccerway.com (23 May 2017).
- ↑ Argentina VS. Guatemala 3: 0 (English) . soccerway.com (8 September 2018).
- ↑ Rio 2016. Honduras national team player complained of racism by Argentines . sports.ru. The appeal date is August 12, 2016.
Links
- Profile on the site Soccerway (eng.)
- Player Profile (English) on Transfermarkt