Federico Nieto

Federico Nieto

Nieto in 2012
Personal information
Full name	Federico Nieto
Date of birth	(1983-08-26) 26 August 1983
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.90 m (6 ft 3 in)
Position(s)	Striker
Team information
Current team	Barcelona SC
Number	32
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2002–2005	Almagro	58	(33)
2005	Rangers	3	(2)
2006	Estrela Amadora	7	(1)
2006	Genoa	0	(0)
2006–2007	→Hellas Verona (loan)	21	(1)
2007–2008	Huracán	32	(7)
2008–2009	Banfield	8	(0)
2009	→ Huracán (loan)	15	(5)
2009–2010	Colon	31	(13)
2010–2012	Atlético Paranaense	31	(5)
2013	Deportivo Quito	35	(28)
2014–	Barcelona SC	17	(3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 7 May 2015

Federico Gastón Nieto (born 26 August 1983) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a striker for Barcelona SC.

Career

Nieto was born in Buenos Aires. He previously played for Almagro, with a loan spell at Scottish club Rangers in 2005 where he scored three times, once in the league against Dunfermline and twice against Clyde in the League Cup.

In 2007 Nieto returned to Argentina to play for Huracán, in 2008 he joined Banfield and in January 2009 he was loaned back to Huracán where he was a member of the squad that finished in 2nd place in the Clausura 2009 tournament.

In 2009, he joined Colón de Santa Fe where he started well with four goals in his first six games with the club.

Since 2010 he has been playing in Atlético Paranaense where, after a not so good 2010 season, he became one of the most important players of the team in 2011, scoring seven goals at a total of seven games played.

External links

• Federico Nieto statistics at Irish Times at the Wayback Machine (archived 28 May 2009)
• Argentine Primera statistics^[usurped] at Fútbol XXI (in Spanish)