![]() Lazaro in 2018 | |||
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Valentino Lando Lazaro [1] | ||
Date of birth | 24 March 1996 | ||
Place of birth | Graz, Styria, Austria | ||
Height | 1.80 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||
Position(s) | Right midfielder, full-back, right winger | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Torino | ||
Number | 20 | ||
Youth career | |||
2002–2011 | Grazer AK | ||
2011–2012 | Red Bull Salzburg | ||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
2012–2017 | Red Bull Salzburg | 87 | (11) |
2013 | → FC Liefering (loan) | 3 | (0) |
2017–2019 | Hertha BSC | 57 | (5) |
2017 | Hertha BSC II | 1 | (1) |
2019–2023 | Inter Milan | 6 | (0) |
2020 | → Newcastle United (loan) | 13 | (1) |
2020–2021 | → Borussia Mönchengladbach (loan) | 22 | (2) |
2021–2022 | → Benfica (loan) | 18 | (0) |
2022–2023 | → Torino (loan) | 23 | (0) |
2023– | Torino | 1 | (0) |
International career‡ | |||
2011 | Austria U16 | 4 | (0) |
2012–2013 | Austria U17 | 17 | (0) |
2014 | Austria U18 | 2 | (0) |
2015–2016 | Austria U21 | 6 | (0) |
2014– | Austria | 36 | (3) |
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 31 August 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 22:07, 13 June 2022 (UTC) |
Valentino Lando Lazaro (born 24 March 1996) is an Austrian professional footballer who plays as a right midfielder, full-back or right winger for Serie A club Torino and the Austria national team.
Lazaro was born in Graz, Austria, to an Angolan father and a Greek Cypriot mother. [2] He made his full debut for Red Bull Salzburg on 3 November 2012 against Admira Wacker in the league. At 16 years and 224 days, he became the youngest player ever in the history of the Austrian Bundesliga.
Lazaro's loan deal from Red Bull Salzburg to Hertha BSC was made permanent in 2017, when he was signed on a long term deal at the Bundesliga club. [3] He scored his first goal for Hertha BSC in a 2–0 away win against Bayer Leverkusen on 10 February 2018. [4]
On 1 July 2019, Lazaro joined Inter Milan. [5] [6] He made his Serie A debut in Inter's 4–3 defeat of Sassuolo on 20 October 2019. [7]
On 24 January 2020, Lazaro joined Newcastle United on loan for the remainder of the 2019–20 season and was handed the number 23 shirt. [8] He scored his first Newcastle goal in a 3–2 win over West Bromwich Albion to secure a spot in the quarter-finals of the FA Cup. [9] On 1 July, Lazaro scored his first goal in the Premier League for the club in a 4–1 win over Bournemouth. [10]
After the end of the loan spell at Newcastle, on 20 August 2020, Lazaro joined Borussia Mönchengladbach on a season-long loan. [11] On 8 November 2020, he scored his first goal with a scorpion kick in a 3–4 defeat against Bayer Leverkusen. [12] The goal would be awarded as both the goal of the month for November and the Bundesliga goal of the season. [13]
On 1 August 2022, Lazaro moved on loan to Torino, with an option to buy. [14]
Lazaro made his senior debut for the Austria national team 30 May 2014 in a 1–1 friendly draw against Iceland in Innsbruck, replacing Marko Arnautović for the last fifteen minutes. [15]
Club | Season | League | National Cup | League Cup | Europe | Total | ||||||
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Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
Red Bull Salzburg | 2012–13 | Austrian Bundesliga | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | – | 0 | 0 | 5 | 0 | |
2013–14 | Austrian Bundesliga | 11 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 13 | 2 | ||
2014–15 | Austrian Bundesliga | 25 | 4 | 4 | 0 | – | 3 [lower-alpha 2] | 0 | 32 | 4 | ||
2015–16 | Austrian Bundesliga | 17 | 2 | 4 | 0 | – | 1 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 22 | 2 | ||
2016–17 | Austrian Bundesliga | 29 | 3 | 5 | 2 | – | 12 [lower-alpha 3] | 2 | 46 | 7 | ||
2017–18 | Austrian Bundesliga | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 2 [lower-alpha 4] | 0 | 3 | 0 | ||
Total | 87 | 11 | 15 | 2 | – | 19 | 2 | 121 | 15 | |||
FC Liefering (loan) | 2013–14 | Austrian First League | 3 | 0 | — | – | — | 3 | 0 | |||
Hertha BSC | 2017–18 | Bundesliga | 26 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 4 [lower-alpha 1] | 0 | 31 | 2 | |
2018–19 | Bundesliga | 31 | 3 | 3 | 0 | – | – | 34 | 3 | |||
Total | 57 | 5 | 4 | 0 | – | 4 | 0 | 65 | 5 | |||
Hertha BSC II | 2017–18 | Regionalliga | 1 | 1 | — | – | — | 1 | 1 | |||
Inter Milan | 2019–20 | Serie A | 6 | 0 | 1 | 0 | – | 4 [lower-alpha 4] | 0 | 11 | 0 | |
Newcastle United (loan) | 2019–20 | Premier League | 13 | 1 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | — | 15 | 2 | |
Borussia Mönchengladbach (loan) | 2020–21 | Bundesliga | 22 | 2 | 1 | 0 | – | 5 [lower-alpha 4] | 0 | 28 | 2 | |
Benfica (loan) | 2021–22 | Primeira Liga | 18 | 0 | 3 | 0 | 2 | 0 | 6 [lower-alpha 4] | 0 | 29 | 0 |
Torino (loan) | 2022–23 | Serie A | 23 | 0 | 2 | 0 | – | – | 25 | 0 | ||
Career total | 229 | 19 | 28 | 3 | 2 | 0 | 38 | 2 | 297 | 24 |
National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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Austria | 2014 | 4 | 0 |
2015 | 0 | 0 | |
2016 | 1 | 0 | |
2017 | 6 | 0 | |
2018 | 8 | 1 | |
2019 | 9 | 2 | |
2020 | 1 | 0 | |
2021 | 3 | 0 | |
2022 | 4 | 0 | |
Total | 36 | 3 |
No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
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1. | 18 November 2018 | Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland | ![]() | 2–1 | 2–1 | 2018–19 UEFA Nations League B |
2. | 10 June 2019 | Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia | ![]() | 1–1 | 4–1 | UEFA Euro 2020 qualification |
3. | 10 October 2019 | Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria | ![]() | 1–1 | 3–1 |
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