Personal information | |||
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Full name | Vicente José Matías Vuoso | ||
Date of birth | 3 November 1981 | ||
Place of birth | Mar Del Plata, Argentina | ||
Height | 1.78 m (5 ft 10 in) | ||
Playing position | Striker | ||
Club information | |||
Current team
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Correcaminos UAT | ||
Youth career | |||
Independiente | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2000–2002 | Independiente | 65 | (14) |
2002–2003 | Manchester City | 0 | (0) |
2003–2006 | Santos Laguna | 102 | (57) |
2006 | América | 20 | (5) |
2007–2010 | Santos Laguna | 124 | (37) |
2010–2012 | América | 63 | (22) |
2012–2015 | Atlas | 57 | (10) |
2014–2015 | → Chiapas (loan) | 33 | (9) |
2015–2016 | Cruz Azul | 27 | (5) |
2016–2017 | Talleres de Córdoba | 1 | (0) |
2017– | Correcaminos UAT | 0 | (0) |
National team | |||
2008–2015 | Mexico | 15 | (6) |
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 25 August 2016. |
Vicente José Matías Vuoso (born 3 November 1981) is an Argentine-born Mexican professional footballer who currently plays as a striker for Correcaminos UAT.
Born in Argentina, Vuoso began his career at Independiente in 2000, then transferring to English club Manchester City in 2002, where he did not play in a single league match. Since 2003 he has played in Mexico, having two stints with Santos Laguna and Club América, as well as playing for Atlas and Chiapas.
Vuoso chose to represent Mexico at international level, making his debut in 2008 and featured for them at the 2015 Copa América.
Matías Vuoso began his career in Argentina with Independiente. Playing alongside Diego Forlán, Vicente scored seven goals in 29 games for Independiente in 2000–01 and another seven in 35 games in 2001–02. He left the Argentinian club in June 2002 to sign with English club Manchester City, joining for £3.5 million. However, Vuoso did not appear in a single game for Manchester City, and was subsequently loaned out to Santos Laguna for the 2003–04 season.
Despite moving from the Premier League to the Primera Division Mexicana, in the beginning of his stay in Mexico, Vuoso experienced the same problems at Santos Laguna that he faced at Manchester City. Coming to a club that already boasted an attack that featured Chilean playmaker Rodrigo Ruiz and Mexican striker Jared Borgetti, Vuoso was exclusively played as a substitute during the first part of the Apertura 2003 season. As fate would have it however, Vuoso was thrown into the starting mix when Borgetti suffered a minor injury that required a two-week absence from the pitch. Vuoso scored in both of the games he started in place of Borgetti and subsequently convinced Santos manager Luis Fernando Tena, who awarded Vuoso a starting spot.