![]() Tello playing for Barcelona in 2012
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Personal information | |||
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Full name | Cristian Tello Herrera | ||
Date of birth | 11 August 1991 | ||
Place of birth | Sabadell, Spain | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Playing position | Forward / Winger | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Fiorentina (on loan from Barcelona) |
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Number | 16 | ||
Youth career | |||
1999–2002 | Can Rull | ||
2002–2008 | Barcelona | ||
2007–2008 | → Damm (loan) | ||
2008–2010 | Espanyol | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2010 | Espanyol B | 4 | (1) |
2010–2012 | Barcelona B | 39 | (9) |
2011– | Barcelona | 59 | (11) |
2014–2016 | → Porto (loan) | 36 | (7) |
2016– | → Fiorentina (loan) | 36 | (5) |
National team‡ | |||
2010 | Spain U19 | 3 | (0) |
2011 | Spain U20 | 5 | (1) |
2012–2013 | Spain U21 | 12 | (2) |
2012 | Spain U23 | 6 | (0) |
2013– | Spain | 1 | (0) |
2013– | Catalonia | 2 | (0) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 1 February 2017. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 30 December 2013 |
Cristian Tello Herrera (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈkɾistjan ˈteʎo eˈreɾa]; born 11 August 1991) is a Spanish professional footballer who plays as a forward or winger for Italian club ACF Fiorentina on loan from FC Barcelona.
He spent his youth at Espanyol and Barcelona, playing for both teams' reserves before breaking through into the first team of the latter.
Tello represented Spain at the 2012 Olympics, and was part of the under-21 squad which won the European Championship in 2013.
Born in Sabadell, Barcelona, Catalonia, Tello started playing at the age of eight with CF Can Rull, moving to FC Barcelona shortly after and being loaned to another club in the region, CF Damm, for one year.
In 2008, his contract expired and RCD Espanyol signed him. He made his senior debuts in the 2009–10 season, playing four games with the B-team and being relegated from the third division.
In June 2010, Tello moved back to FC Barcelona B, who competed in the second level. On 9 November 2011 he made his debut for Barça's main squad, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 away win against CE L'Hospitalet for the season's Copa del Rey; he scored a brace in the second leg, a 9–0 routing.