Valentino Lazaro

Valentino Lazaro
Lazaro in 2018
Personal information
Full name Valentino Lando Lazaro[1]
Date of birth (1996-03-24) 24 March 1996 (age 28)
Place of birth Graz, Styria, Austria
Height 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in)
Position(s) Right midfielder, full-back
Club 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 1 (0)
National team‡
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)
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and 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

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

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

Club

As of match played 21 May 2023[7]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
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
  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Appearance(s) in UEFA Europa League
  2. ↑ One appearance in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
  3. ↑ Six appearances and two goals in UEFA Champions League, six appearances in UEFA Europa League
  4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 Appearances in UEFA Champions League

International

As of match played 13 June 2022[8]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
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]
List of international goals scored by Valentino Lazaro
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

Red Bull Salzburg[9]

Individual

References

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  1. ↑ "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.
  2. ↑ "Valentino Lazaro - Spielerprofil 18/19". www.transfermarkt.de.
  3. ↑ "14. Runde, Saison 2012/13, RBS vs ADM – FC Salzburg Wiki". wiki.salzburg12.at.
  4. ↑ ESPN.com
  5. ↑ "Inter Milan Homepage". Archived from the original on 2022-01-10. Retrieved 2022-01-10.
  6. ↑ Goal.com
  7. ↑ Valentino Lazaro at Soccerway
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Valentino Lazaro at National-Football-Teams.com
  9. ↑ "V. Lazaro". Soccerway. Retrieved 24 January 2020.
  10. ↑ 10.0 10.1 "Bundesliga Goal of the Month". Bundesliga. Retrieved 9 January 2021.