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Maxi López
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Argentine association football player
Key facts
- 2001
- Argentina U17
- 2009
- → Grêmio (loan)
- 2012
- → Milan (loan)
- 2014
- → Sampdoria (loan)
- Full name
- Maximiliano Gastón López
- Date of birth
- ( 1984-04-03 ) 3 April 1984 (age 42)
- Place of birth
- Buenos Aires , Argentina
- Height
- 1.89 m (6 ft 2 + 1 ⁄ 2 in)
- Position
- Striker
- 1997 2001
- River Plate
- Years
- Team
- 2001 2004
- River Plate
- 2005 2007
- Barcelona
- 2006 2007
- → Mallorca (loan)
- 2007 2009
- FC Moscow
- 2010 2014
- Catania
- 2012 2013
- → Sampdoria (loan)
- 2014 2015
- Chievo
via Wikipedia infobox
Sports profile
- Sport
- Soccer
- Position
- Forward
- Nationality
- Argentina
via TheSportsDB
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Family name
- López
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- Italy
- Place of birth
- Buenos Aires
- Spouse
- Wanda Nara
- Occupation
- association football player
- Languages spoken
- Spanish
- Sport
- association football
- Member of team
- S.S. Sambenedettese Calcio
- Position played
- forward
- Country for sport
- Italy
- Mass
- 81
- Image
- Maxi Lopez.jpg
- Height
- 186
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- Commons category
- Maxi López
- date of birth
- 1984-04-03
- sport number
- 20
- pseudonym
- Gallina
- start of work period
- 2001-00-00
- number of matches played/races/starts
- 1
- total goals in career
- 0
Sources (6)
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Encyclopedic overview
Maximiliano Gastón López (born 3 April 1984) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker. He holds both an Argentine and an Italian passport. He is known as El Rubio ("The Blonde"), and La Gallina de Oro ("The Golden Hen").
Formed at River Plate, he spent most of his career in Italy, making 215 Serie A appearances and scoring 46 goals for Catania, AC Milan, Sampdoria, Chievo, Torino and Udinese. He also played in Spain for Barcelona and Mallorca, winning the La Liga and UEFA Champions League double with the former in 2006, and for Grêmio and Vasco da Gama in the Campeonato Brasileiro Série A.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Maxi López” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.