Valentino Lazaro
_21.jpg) Lazaro in 2018 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Valentino Lando Lazaro[1] | ||
| Date of birth | 24 March 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Graz, Styria, Austria | ||
| Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Right midfielder, full-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Torino | ||
| Number | 20 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2011 | Grazer AK | ||
| 2011–2012 | Red Bull Salzburg | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2012–2017 | Red Bull Salzburg | 87 | (11) |
| 2013 | → FC Liefering (loan) | 3 | (0) |
| 2017–2019 | Hertha BSC | 57 | (5) |
| 2017 | Hertha BSC II | 1 | (1) |
| 2019–2023 | Inter Milan | 6 | (0) |
| 2020 | → Newcastle United (loan) | 13 | (1) |
| 2020–2021 | → Borussia Mönchengladbach (loan) | 22 | (2) |
| 2021–2022 | → Benfica (loan) | 18 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | → Torino (loan) | 23 | (0) |
| 2023– | Torino | 23 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2011 | Austria U16 | 4 | (0) |
| 2012–2013 | Austria U17 | 17 | (0) |
| 2014 | Austria U18 | 2 | (0) |
| 2015–2016 | Austria U21 | 6 | (0) |
| 2014– | Austria | 36 | (3) |
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*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 August 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:07, 13 June 2022 (UTC) | |||
Valentino Lazaro (born 23 March 1996) is an Austrian football player. He plays as an attacking midfielder for FC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga.[2]
Career
[change | change source]He started playing football for Grazer AK and went on to the youth academy of FC Red Bull Salzburg. He played his first game for the first team on 3 November 2012 against Admira Wacker Mödling. At 16 years and 224 days old he was the youngest player ever in the history of the Austrian Bundesliga. He came on in the 87th minute for Valon Berisha and was booked in the 88th minute.[3]
He is also allowed to play for FC Liefering, the farm team of Red Bull Salzburg. This team is in the Heute für Morgen Erste Liga, the second league in Austrian football.
Then he went from Red Bull Salzburg to Hertha BSC. He scored his first goal for Hertha BSC in a 2–0 away win against Bayer Leverkusen on 10 February 2018.[4] 2019 Lazaro joined Inter Milan.[5] The next years he played on loan for Newcastle United and Borussia Mönchengladbach. 2021 he went on loan to Benfica.
International career
[change | change source]Lazaro played for the Austria Under-16 and Under-17 youth national teams. With the U-17's he played in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Lazaro made his debut for the Austria national team on 30 May 2014 in a 1–1 against Iceland in Innsbruck.[6]
Career statistics
[change | change source]Club
[change | change source]- As of match played 21 May 2023[7]
| Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Red Bull Salzburg | 2012–13 | Austrian Bundesliga | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
| 2013–14 | Austrian Bundesliga | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 1[a] | 0 | 13 | 2 | ||
| 2014–15 | Austrian Bundesliga | 25 | 4 | 4 | 0 | – | 3[b] | 0 | 32 | 4 | ||
| 2015–16 | Austrian Bundesliga | 17 | 2 | 4 | 0 | – | 1[a] | 0 | 22 | 2 | ||
| 2016–17 | Austrian Bundesliga | 29 | 3 | 5 | 2 | – | 12[c] | 2 | 46 | 7 | ||
| 2017–18 | Austrian Bundesliga | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 2[d] | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
| Total | 87 | 11 | 15 | 2 | – | 19 | 2 | 121 | 15 | |||
| FC Liefering (loan) | 2013–14 | Austrian First League | 3 | 0 | — | – | — | 3 | 0 | |||
| Hertha BSC | 2017–18 | Bundesliga | 26 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 4[a] | 0 | 31 | 2 | |
| 2018–19 | Bundesliga | 31 | 3 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 34 | 3 | |||
| Total | 57 | 5 | 4 | 0 | – | 4 | 0 | 65 | 5 | |||
| Hertha BSC II | 2017–18 | Regionalliga | 1 | 1 | — | – | — | 1 | 1 | |||
| Inter Milan | 2019–20 | Serie A | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 4[d] | 0 | 11 | 0 | |
| Newcastle United (loan) | 2019–20 | Premier League | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 15 | 2 | |
| Borussia Mönchengladbach (loan) | 2020–21 | Bundesliga | 22 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 5[d] | 0 | 28 | 2 | |
| Benfica (loan) | 2021–22 | Primeira Liga | 18 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6[d] | 0 | 29 | 0 |
| Torino (loan) | 2022–23 | Serie A | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 25 | 0 | ||
| Career total | 229 | 19 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 297 | 24 | ||
International
[change | change source]- As of match played 13 June 2022[8]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Austria | 2014 | 4 | 0 |
| 2015 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2016 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2017 | 6 | 0 | |
| 2018 | 8 | 1 | |
| 2019 | 9 | 2 | |
| 2020 | 1 | 0 | |
| 2021 | 3 | 0 | |
| 2022 | 4 | 0 | |
| Total | 36 | 3 | |
- Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lazaro goal.[8]
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. | 18 November 2018 | Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland |  Northern Ireland | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2018–19 UEFA Nations League B |
| 2. | 10 June 2019 | Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia |  Macedonia | 1–1 | 4–1 | UEFA Euro 2020 qualification |
| 3. | 10 October 2019 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria |  Israel | 1–1 | 3–1 |
Honours
[change | change source]Red Bull Salzburg[9]
- Austrian Bundesliga: 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
- Austrian Cup: 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
Individual
- Bundesliga Goal of the Month: November 2020[10]
- Bundesliga Goal of the Year: 2020–21[10]
References
[change | change source]
- ↑ "FIFA U-20 World Cup 2013 List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 30 May 2015. p. 23. Archived from the original (PDF) on 24 September 2015. Retrieved 1 June 2015.
- ↑ "Valentino Lazaro - Spielerprofil 18/19". www.transfermarkt.de.
- ↑ "14. Runde, Saison 2012/13, RBS vs ADM – FC Salzburg Wiki". wiki.salzburg12.at.
- ↑ ESPN.com
- ↑ "Inter Milan Homepage". Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
- ↑ Goal.com
- ↑ Valentino Lazaro at Soccerway
- 1 2 Valentino Lazaro at National-Football-Teams.com
- ↑ "V. Lazaro". Soccerway. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
- 1 2 "Bundesliga Goal of the Month". Bundesliga. Retrieved 9 January 2021.
