Lucas Pratto
Pratto training with Lyn Fotball in 2009
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| Personal information | |||
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| Full name | Lucas David Pratto | ||
| Date of birth | 4 June 1988 | ||
| Place of birth | La Plata, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.87 m (6 ft 1 1⁄2 in) | ||
| Playing position | Striker | ||
| Club information | |||
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Current team
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São Paulo | ||
| Number | 14 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2002–2005 | Cambaceres | ||
| 2006–2007 | Boca Juniors | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2007–2011 | Boca Juniors | 2 | (0) |
| 2007–2008 | → Tigre (loan) | 13 | (1) |
| 2008–2009 | → Lyn Fotball (loan) | 21 | (4) |
| 2010 | → Unión (loan) | 19 | (6) |
| 2010–2011 | → Católica (loan) | 35 | (10) |
| 2011–2012 | Genoa | 14 | (1) |
| 2012 | → Vélez Sarsfield (loan) | 12 | (2) |
| 2012–2014 | Vélez Sarsfield | 85 | (33) |
| 2015–2017 | Atlético Mineiro | 54 | (18) |
| 2017– | São Paulo | 0 | (0) |
| National team‡ | |||
| 2016– | Argentina | 5 | (2) |
| * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 14 December 2016. ‡ National team caps and goals correct as of 28 March 2017 |
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Lucas David Pratto (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈlukas daˈβið ˈpɾato]; born 4 June 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Brazilian club São Paulo FC as a striker.
He has been described as possessing unusual technique and ball control for a player of strong physique. Pratto's first professional club was Boca Juniors, by whom he was loaned to Argentine sides Tigre and Unión, Norway's Lyn Fotball and Chile's Universidad Católica. He then made a permanent move to Italian club Genoa, before returning to his native country to play for Vélez Sarsfield, first on loan and then permanently. Pratto then moved to Brazil, playing two years for Atlético Mineiro before joining São Paulo. In 2014, while playing for Vélez, he was elected Footballer of the Year of Argentina.
Pratto has been capped at international level for Argentina.
Pratto was born in the Argentine department of La Plata, where he lived most of his early life in the Altos de San Lorenzo district. He started playing in local club Gimnasia of Los Hornos, and was rejected by the youth ranks of Estudiantes de La Plata before eventually making it into the Defensores de Cambaceres youth team, where his brother then played.
Product of Defensores de Cambaceres lower divisions, Pratto joined Argentine club Boca Juniors in 2006, after a recommendation by Martín Palermo. Once in the La Boca-based team, he was sent to the team's fifth division, where he scored more than 20 goals and formed an attacking partnership with Óscar Trejo.
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