Personal information | |||
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Full name | Alan Agustín Velasco | ||
Date of birth | 27 July 2002 | ||
Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Height | 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in) [1] | ||
Position(s) | Winger [2] | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | FC Dallas | ||
Number | 20 | ||
Youth career | |||
2012–2019 | Independiente | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | ( Gls) |
2019–2022 | Independiente | 48 | (6) |
2022– | FC Dallas | 54 | (10) |
International career‡ | |||
2019 | Argentina U17 | 5 | (1) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 8 October 2023 ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 00:25, 1 September 2023 (UTC) |
Alan Agustín Velasco (born 27 July 2002) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a winger for Major League Soccer club FC Dallas. [1]
Velasco started his career in the youth system of Independiente, having joined the club in 2012. [3] [4] [5] [6] He was promoted into their first-team, aged sixteen, towards the end of the 2018–19 campaign, with the winger initially appearing as an unused substitute for a Copa Sudamericana second stage encounter with Rionegro Águilas on 21 May 2019. [1] [7] He was again on the bench for the second leg on 28 May, with Velasco subsequently making his professional debut at the Estadio Libertadores de América; replacing Jony in added time. [1] [8] Sixteen appearances later, Velasco scored his first senior goal in the Sudamericana away to Fénix in Montevideo. [1]
Velasco, aged eighteen, netted his opening domestic goals in the Copa de la Liga Profesional in November and December against Colón and Argentinos Juniors respectively. [1] That was followed by a strike against Arsenal de Sarandí on 3 January and a brace away to River Plate on 9 January. [1]
On February 1, 2022, Velasco was announced by FC Dallas as its costliest signing ever in a four-year deal reported at $7 million with potentially an additional $1.7M based on incentives. Independiente will also receive 15% of his next sale. [9]
Velasco represented Argentina at U15 and U17 level, scoring one goal in four appearances for the latter at the 2019 South American Championship in Peru; which they won. [1] [10] [11] [12] In October 2019, Velasco was called up for the 2019 FIFA U-17 World Cup in Brazil. [13]
Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Independiente | 2018–19 | Primera División | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 [a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 |
2019–20 | 4 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 3 [a] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 9 | 0 | ||
2020–21 [nb 1] | 9 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 6 [a] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 15 | 6 | ||
FC Dallas | 2022 | MLS | 27 | 6 | 2 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 30 | 6 |
Career total | 40 | 11 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 10 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 54 | 12 |
Argentina U17 [1]