Federico Gastón Nieto (born 26 August 1983) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Barcelona SC.
 Nieto in 2012 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Federico Nieto | ||
| Date of birth | 26 August 1983 | ||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.90 m (6 ft 3 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Barcelona SC | ||
| Number | 32 | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2002–2005 | Almagro | 58 | (33) |
| 2005 | Rangers | 3 | (2) |
| 2006 | Estrela Amadora | 7 | (1) |
| 2006 | Genoa | 0 | (0) |
| 2006–2007 | →Hellas Verona (loan) | 21 | (1) |
| 2007–2008 | Huracán | 32 | (7) |
| 2008–2009 | Banfield | 8 | (0) |
| 2009 | → Huracán (loan) | 15 | (5) |
| 2009–2010 | Colon | 31 | (13) |
| 2010–2012 | Atlético Paranaense | 31 | (5) |
| 2013 | Deportivo Quito | 35 | (28) |
| 2014– | Barcelona SC | 17 | (3) |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 May 2015 | |||
Career
editNieto was born in Buenos Aires. He previously played for Almagro, with a loan spell at Scottish club Rangers in 2005 where he scored three times, once in the league against Dunfermline[1] and twice against Clyde in the League Cup.[2]
In 2007 Nieto returned to Argentina to play for Huracán, in 2008 he joined Banfield and in January 2009 he was loaned back to Huracán where he was a member of the squad that finished in 2nd place in the Clausura 2009 tournament.
In 2009, he joined Colón de Santa Fe where he started well with four goals in his first six games with the club.
Since 2010 he has been playing in Atlético Paranaense where, after a not so good 2010 season, he became one of the most important players of the team in 2011, scoring seven goals at a total of seven games played.
References
edit- ^ "Rangers 5-1 Dunfermline Athletic". BBC. 1 October 2005. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
- ^ "Rangers 5-2 Clyde (aet)". BBC. 20 September 2005. Retrieved 10 November 2009.
External links
edit- Federico Nieto statistics at Irish Times at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 May 2009)
- Argentine Primera statistics[usurped] at Fútbol XXI (in Spanish)