Tagliafico changes team (and country) before the World Cup

Tagliafico changes team (and country) before the World Cup

“After much hesitation, Tagliafico decided to travel to Lyon with his agent Mo Sinouh from ICM/Stellar to close the deal”assures the media about the footballer, who currently remains with the Ajax squad in Austria.

Lyon will pay the Amsterdam club the sum of 4 million euros to release the Argentine, who in the last European winter market was close to moving to Barcelona from Spain.

tagliafico, The 29-year-old will sign a contract with his new club until 2025 after spending four and a half seasons at Ájax, where he came from Independiente. In Dutch soccer, he won five titles: three leagues and two national cups. Internationally, he reached the semi-finals of the 2019 European Champions League.

The left back from the Banfield club will be the eighth Argentine footballer in the history of Lyon after Attilio Bernasconi (1937-38), Héctor Maison (1966-69), Claudio “Turco” García (1988-90), César Delgado (2007-11), Lisandro López (2009-13), Fabián Monzón (2012- 13) and Emmanuel Mammana (2016-17).

With his incorporation, Ligue 1 has so far six Argentine soccer players since Facundo Medina (Lens), Leonardo Balerdi (Olympique Marseille), Leandro Paredes, Lionel Messi and Mauro Icardi (Paris Saint-Germain) also play there.

Source: Ambito

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