Manuel Capasso

Manuel Capasso

Capasso in 2020
Personal information
Full name	Manuel Vicente Capasso
Date of birth	(1996-04-19) 19 April 1996 (age 29)
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.88 m (6 ft 2 in) [1]
Position(s)	Centre-back [2]
Team information
Current team	Olimpia
Number	22
Youth career
2013–2015	Acassuso
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2015–2018	Acassuso	88	(5)
2018–2019	Defensa y Justicia	0	(0)
2019–2020	Aldosivi	0	(0)
2019–2020	→ Platense (loan)	17	(2)
2020–2021	Newell's Old Boys	16	(1)
2022	Atlético Tucumán	30	(1)
2023–2025	Vasco da Gama	15	(2)
2024	→ Olimpia (loan)	29	(5)
2025–	Olimpia	6	(0)
* Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 13 August 2025

Manuel Vicente Capasso (born 19 April 1996) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Paraguayan club Olimpia. ^[3]

Career

Acassuso were Capasso's opening career club, he joined them in 2013. ^[4] He was promoted into their senior squad under manager Walter Otta during the 2015 Primera B Metropolitana, marking his professional debut with a late cameo off the substitutes bench against Platense on 17 July. ^{[1] [5]} Capasso scored the first goals of his career in November 2016, netting in consecutive league fixtures versus Deportivo Español and Deportivo Riestra. ^[1] He left Acassuso at the end of 2017–18, having made eighty-nine appearances while scoring five times for the club. ^{[1] [6]} On 1 July 2018, Capasso was signed by Primera División side Defensa y Justicia. ^[1]

After no matches in five months for Defensa y Justicia, Capasso terminated his contract in January 2019 to move to fellow Primera División team Aldosivi. ^{[7] [8]} He didn't appear competitively across the next seven months, subsequently leaving on loan in July 2019 to Primera B Nacional's Platense - the opponents of his career debut. ^[1] He scored goals for them against Estudiantes and Agropecuario in sixteen appearances. ^[9]

In February 2023, Capasso was transferred to the Brazilian Club Vasco da Gama. ^[3]

Career statistics

As of 6 October 2020. ^[1]

Club statistics

Club	Season	League			Cup		League Cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Acassuso	2015	Primera B Metropolitana	6	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	6	0
	2016		17	0	0	0	—		—		0	0	17	0
	2016–17		32	2	0	0	—		—		0	0	32	2
	2017–18		33	3	0	0	—		—		1 [a]	0	34	3
	Total		88	5	0	0	—		—		1	0	89	5
Defensa y Justicia	2018–19	Primera División	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0
Aldosivi			0	0	0	0	0	0	—		0	0	0	0
	2019–20		0	0	0	0	0	0	—		0	0	0	0
	Total		0	0	0	0	0	0	—		0	0	0	0
Platense (loan)	2019–20	Primera B Nacional	16	2	1	0	—		—		0	0	17	2
Career total			104	7	1	0	0	0	0	0	1	0	106	7

1. Appearance(s) in the Primera B Metropolitana play-offs

References

1. "Argentina - M. Capasso". Soccerway. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
2. Manuel Capasso at WorldFootball.net
3. "Vasco acerta a contratação do zagueiro Manuel Capasso – Vasco da Gama" (in Brazilian Portuguese). Retrieved 19 February 2023.
4. "Defensa y Justicia puso sus ojos en un central de B Metropolitana". Diario Popular. 13 June 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
5. "Ficha Estadistica de MANUEL CAPASSO". BDFA. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
6. "Capasso: Somos un equipo muy capaz, muy maduro". Mundo Ascenso. 13 March 2018. Retrieved 12 October 2018.
7. "Nuevos sueños en Florencio Varela". Vavel. 14 January 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
8. "Aldosivi concretó su primer refuerzo". La Capital MdP. 12 January 2019. Retrieved 15 January 2019.
9. ""Vuelvo a Aldosivi para jugar y ser importante", dijo Manuel Capasso". InfoBrisas. 23 June 2020. Archived from the original on 6 October 2020. Retrieved 6 October 2020.

External links

• Manuel Capasso at Soccerway