Manuel Lanzini (born 15 February 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer. He plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club West Ham United and the Argentina national team. He has previously played for River Plate and Fluminense. He currently holds the record of being the player that scored the earliest goal in the history of Argentina’s derby, the Superclásico.
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Manuel Lanzini (born 15 February 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer. He plays as an attacking midfielder for Premier League club West Ham United and the Argentina national team. He has previously played for River Plate and Fluminense. He is described as possessing phenomenal dribbling ability, as well as fantastic acceleration and vision and the ability to ghost past defenders. He currently holds the record of being the player that scored the earliest goal in the history of Argentina’s derby, the Superclásico, scoring only 43 seconds after the beginning of the match. His performances and character made the president of the club label him “The Neymar of the South American footballing world” He has also been nicknamed “La Joya” for his ability to dribble past defenders and his great speed. He was born in Córdoba, Argentina, but moved to River Plate in 2002. He made his debut in the First Division at the age of 17 years, 5 months and 24 days. In 2010, the coach of River Plate’s first team Ángel Cappa, included him in the team for the winter preseason, disputing several matches in Salta Province. He then made his first appearance on 8 August 2010, against Tigre for the first match of the Torneo Apertura 2010.
On 19 July 2011 an agreement was reached between River Plate, with the latter taking the player on loan for a fee of US$400,000, with a transfer option of €15,00,000. He came back to the team on 30 June 2012, scoring the team’s only goal in a 1–2 loss against Belgrano. For his comeback, he asked to use the club’s iconic number 10 shirt to the coach Matías Alyda, who allowed the player to do so during Alydas’ time as coach. He also scored his first official goal for the club in the 2–1 victory against São Paulo for the 20th date of the Brasileirao 2011. His most important performance was against Flamengo in the Río de Janeiro in the Fla-Flulu derby in the summer of 2012. He scored the goal that allowed his teammate Rogelio Funes Mori to score thegoal for the 3–2 victory, rounding out a strong performance. In 2008 the 8th division team of which he was a part of won the trophy for that division, with his personal mark of 9 goals, only 2 less than Leonardo Salguero, who was his companion in attack and top scorer of the team with 11 goals. In November 2008, River Plate won the junior division’s Superclástico 3–0 to Boca Juniors with Lanzino scoring 2 goals and assisting the mentioned Salgueros in other.
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