Ignacio Lago

Ignacio Lago
Personal information
Full name Manuel Ignacio Lago
Date of birth (2002-08-05) 5 August 2002
Place of birth Isidro Casanova, Argentina[1]
Height 1.72 m (5 ft 8 in)[2]
Positions
Team information
Current team
 Colón
Youth career
Almirante Brown
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2018–2020 Almirante Brown 31 (3)
2020–2025 Talleres 9 (0)
2021 → Tlaxcala (loan) 16 (5)
2022 → San Martín SJ (loan) 16 (4)
2023 → Atlético de Rafaela (loan) 33 (5)
2024 → Colón (loan) 26 (6)
2025– Colón 27 (2)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18:52, 20 March 2026 (UTC)

Manuel Ignacio Lago (born 5 August 2002) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a left winger or forward for Colón.[3]

Career

Lago is a product of Almirante Brown's youth system.[4] He made the move into senior football at the age of fifteen, featuring off the substitutes four times in the 2017–18 season.[3][5] His debut arrived on 10 February 2018 versus Atlanta, as he was substituted in on eighty-four minutes to become Almirante Brown's youngest ever debutant in competitive football; aged fifteen years, six months and five days to surpass Jonathan Casasola's record as a sixteen-year-old from 2009.[1] In his sixth appearance, on 17 March 2019, Lago scored his first senior goal in a victory over Colegiales.[3][6][7] Overall, he scored three goals in thirty-one games for them.[3]

On 11 September 2020, Lago completed a transfer to Primera División side Talleres.[3][8]

Personal life

In April 2026, Ignacio Lago publicly came out as gay during a television appearance, becoming the first active professional footballer in Argentina to do so.[9]

Career statistics

As of 14 September 2020.[3]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
Almirante Brown 2017–18 Primera B Metropolitana 4000——0040
2018–19 7100——0071
2019–20 20200——00202
Total 31300——00313
Talleres 2020–21 Primera División 000000—0000
Career total 3130000—00313

References

  1. 1 2 "El histórico debut de Ignacio Lago: "Sentí una emoción terrible"". El1Digital. 11 February 2018. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  2. ↑ Ignacio Lago at WorldFootball.net
  3. 1 2 3 4 5 6 García, Hugo (14 July 2021). "Cristian Ojeda e Ignacio Lago llegaron a Tlaxcala desde Talleres; qué dice el DT alterno y exBelgrano Sebastián Lencina". lavoz.com.ar. Retrieved 8 July 2021.
  4. ↑ "El talento de 15 años que debutó en la Reserva". El1Digital. 8 November 2011. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  5. ↑ "Ficha Estadistica de MANUEL LAGO". BDFA. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  6. ↑ "El pibe de Almirante". Solo Ascenso. 18 March 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  7. ↑ "Ignacio Lago: "Siempre soñé con esto"". El1Digital. 19 March 2019. Retrieved 25 April 2019.
  8. ↑ "Ignacio Lago, nuevo refuerzo de Talleres". Talleres. 11 September 2020. Retrieved 14 September 2020.
  9. ↑ read, Moataz Elgammal·3 min (6 April 2026). "Argentine winger makes history as nation's first active footballer to come out as gay in groundbreaking interview". Yahoo Sports. Retrieved 6 April 2026.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
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