Augusto Fernandez
Fernández playing for Celta in 2013
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| Full name | Augusto Matías Fernández | |||||||||||
| Date of birth | 10 April 1986 | |||||||||||
| Place of birth | Pergamino, Argentina | |||||||||||
| Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | |||||||||||
| Playing position | Midfielder | |||||||||||
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Current team
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Atlético Madrid | |||||||||||
| Number | 12 | |||||||||||
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| 2005 | River Plate | |||||||||||
| Senior career* | ||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | |||||||||
| 2006–2009 | River Plate | 46 | (3) | |||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Saint-Étienne | 12 | (1) | |||||||||
| 2010–2012 | Vélez Sársfield | 58 | (11) | |||||||||
| 2012–2015 | Celta | 114 | (10) | |||||||||
| 2016– | Atlético Madrid | 13 | (0) | |||||||||
| National team‡ | ||||||||||||
| 2011– | Argentina | 15 | (1) | |||||||||
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Honours
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| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 May 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 22 June 2016 |
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Augusto Matías Fernández (American Spanish: [au'ɣusto fer'nandes]; born 10 April 1986) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Atlético Madrid and the Argentina national team as a central midfielder.
Born in Pergamino, Buenos Aires, Fernández was a River Plate youth graduate. He made his first team debut on 29 January 2006, coming on as a substitute for Jonathan Santana in a 5–0 away routing of Tiro Federal.
Fernández scored his first professional goal on 8 April 2007, netting the equalizer in a 1–1 home draw against Belgrano. With River he won the 2008 Clausura under Diego Simeone's coaching, playing on 15 of the 19 games (9 starts).
On 28 August 2009, after fellow Argentine Gonzalo Bergessio joined AS Saint-Etienne, Fernández arrived to the aforementioned French club. He was loaned to the French club by a third-party owner of his rights, Israeli businessman Pinhas Zahavi.
Fernández made his Ligue 1 debut on 13 September 2009, starting in a 0–1 loss at Stade Rennais, and scored his first goal in the category roughly a month later in a 3–1 home win against FC Girondins de Bordeaux. However, he only appeared in 12 matches during the campaign, as his side narrowly avoided relegation.
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