Franco Fagúndez

Franco Fagúndez
Fagúndez in 2024
Personal information
Full name Franco Misael Fagúndez Rosa
Date of birth (2000-07-19) 19 July 2000
Place of birth Montevideo, Uruguay
Height 1.87 m (6 ft 2 in)
Position Forward
Team information
Current team
Independiente Santa Fe
(on loan from Santos Laguna)
Number 9
Youth career
Montevideo Wanderers
Danubio
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2021–2023 Nacional 63 (12)
2024– Santos Laguna 30 (3)
2026– → Independiente Santa Fe (loan) 0 (0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 26 July 2025

Franco Misael Fagúndez Rosa (born 19 July 2000) is a Uruguayan professional footballer who plays as a forward for Categoría Primera A club Independiente Santa Fe, on loan from Liga MX club Santos Laguna.[1]

Career

Fagúndez is a former youth academy player of Montevideo Wanderers and Danubio.[2] In January 2020, he joined Nacional and initially started to play with club's reserve team.[3] He made his professional debut for Nacional on 19 November 2021 in a 1–0 league win against Cerrito.[4] On 13 March 2022, he scored his first goal for the club in a 1–1 draw against Montevideo City Torque.[5]

Career statistics

As of 11 February 2023[6]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
ClubSeasonLeagueCupContinentalOtherTotal
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Nacional 2021 Uruguayan Primera División 20—000020
2022 3110008[a]12[b]04111
2023 2000001[c]030
Career total 35100081304611
  1. ↑ Four appearances and one goal in Copa Sudamericana, four appearances in Copa Libertadores
  2. ↑ One appearance each in Torneo Intermedio final and championship playoff
  3. ↑ Appearance in Supercopa Uruguaya

Honours

Nacional

Individual

References

  1. ↑ "Independiente Santa Fe official account". Instagram. Retrieved 5 January 2026.
  2. ↑ "Franco Fagúndez: "En las juveniles de Wanderers llegué a dejar el fútbol por temas personales"" (in Spanish). 5 February 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  3. ↑ "Franco Fagúndez, el capitán, goleador y que pica penales en la Tercera de Nacional y que Ligüera subió a Primera" (in Spanish). 1 September 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  4. ↑ "Nacional le puso corazón y, esta vez, con eso le fue suficiente para ganarle a Cerrito" (in Spanish). 19 November 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  5. ↑ "Mirá las fechas especiales que marcaron a Fagúndez y que lleva tatuadas en su piel". 16 June 2022. Retrieved 29 October 2022.
  6. ↑ Franco Fagúndez at Soccerway
  7. ↑ "Uruguayo: Nacional, con doblete de Suárez y Gigliotti, venció 4-1 a Liverpool y es campeón" (in Spanish). 30 October 2022. Retrieved 31 October 2022.
  8. ↑ "Felipe Carballo obtuvo el premio de mejor jugador del Campeonato Uruguayo 2022". 16 December 2022. Retrieved 23 December 2022.