Federico Higuaín
Higuaín with Godoy Cruz in 2010
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Federico Fernando Higuaín | ||
| Date of birth | 25 October 1984 | ||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.72 m (5 ft 7 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Forward / Attacking midfielder | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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Columbus Crew SC | ||
| Number | 10 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| River Plate | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2007 | River Plate | 5 | (0) |
| 2005–2007 | → Nueva Chicago (loan) | 77 | (29) |
| 2007–2008 | Beşiktaş | 14 | (2) |
| 2008 | → América (loan) | 13 | (1) |
| 2008–2009 | Independiente | 18 | (1) |
| 2009–2010 | Godoy Cruz | 36 | (11) |
| 2010–2012 | Colón | 62 | (10) |
| 2012– | Columbus Crew SC | 140 | (48) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of June 24, 2017. |
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Federico Fernando Higuaín (Spanish: [feðeˈɾiko iɣwaˈin]; born 25 October 1984 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine footballer who currently plays for Columbus Crew SC in Major League Soccer as a forward or as an attacking midfielder.
Higuaín was born in Buenos Aires, the son of the Argentine former footballer Jorge Higuaín. Higuaín has three brothers, Nicolas, Lautaro and Gonzalo Higuaín, the latter of whom plays as a striker for the Italian Serie A club Juventus, and the Argentina national football team.
Higuaín signed with River Plate as a youngster playing 5 games and registering no goals. He soon went on loan to Nueva Chicago in the Argentine second division, where he played 77 league games, scoring 29 goals. He also impressed during stints at Godoy Cruz and Colón de Santa Fe.
Higuaín signed for Columbus Crew as the team's third ever designated player on 27 July 2012. The reported transfer fee for the deal was $650,000 USD which, if correct, is believed to be the highest transfer fee ever paid by the Crew. He made his Crew debut on 19 August 2012 as a substitute against the Houston Dynamo and assisted on the go-ahead goal by Eddie Gaven with a ball over the top just 13 minutes after entering the game. After Dynamo equalized, Higuaín almost put the Crew back into the lead with a direct free kick that went just wide of the goal in the 84th minute. For the Crew's next match on 22 August 2012 Higuaín got his first MLS start against Toronto FC. In the 4th minute, Higuaín once again set up an Eddie Gaven goal to take a 1-0 lead. In the 58th minute of the same match, Higuaín scored his first MLS goal, the game-winner, off of an assist by Jairo Arrieta meaning that Higuaín tallied a goal and two assists through his first two matches with the club. On the Crew's next matchday, Higuaín scored two goals from free kicks in an eventual 4-3 victory over the New England Revolution. For his performances over his first several matches, Higuaín was named the Major League Soccer Player of the Week for week 25, then again for week 26, of the 2012 Major League Soccer season by North American soccer journalists. Higuaín finished the season by scoring both goals of a 2-1 victory against Toronto FC on the final matchday. To begin the 2013 season, Higuaín scored the game-winning goal in the 51st minute of a 3–0 opening-day victory over Chivas USA. On 10 August 2013, Higuaín scored in a 2–0 victory over New York Red Bulls with a chip from well outside the penalty area that was voted Goal of the Week, and in the next match, a 2–0 win over Toronto FC, he chipped the goalkeeper from 22 yards (20 m).
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