Franco Paredes
Personal information
Full name Franco Ezequiel Paredes
Date of birth (1999-03-18) 18 March 1999
Place of birth San Justo, Argentina
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)[1]
Position(s) Centre-back[1]
Team information
Current team
 River Plate
Youth career
2007–2020 River Plate
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2020– River Plate 0 (0)
2020–2021 → Defensa y Justicia (loan) 22 (3)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 18:41, 27 March 2022 (UTC)

Franco Ezequiel Paredes (born 18 March 1999) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for River Plate.[2]

Career

Paredes joined River Plate in 2007.[3] He made the jump from academy to reserves in 2016, before making his breakthrough into the first-team under Marcelo Gallardo in February 2020.[4] Paredes was soon registered for the Copa Libertadores, a competition that would see him make his senior debut in on 4 March 2020 against L.D.U. Quito; he played the full duration as River lost 3–0, with ten men, in Group D.[2] In August, Paredes was loaned to fellow Primera División club Defensa y Justicia.[5][6] Hernán Crespo gave him his first appearance in the Libertadores too, as they lost away to Santos on 21 October.[2]

Personal life

Paredes' cousin, Leandro, is also a professional footballer.[7]

Career statistics

As of 5 November 2020[2]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League Cup League Cup Continental Other Total
DivisionAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoalsAppsGoals
River Plate 2019–20 Primera División 0000001[lower-alpha 1]00010
2020–21 000000000000
Total 000000100010
Defensa y Justicia (loan) 2020–21[nb 1] Primera División 0000002[lower-alpha 2]00020
Career total 000000300030
  1. ↑ Appearance(s) in the Copa Libertadores
  2. ↑ Appearance(s) in the Copa Libertadores and Copa Sudamericana

Notes

  1. ↑ Soccerway counts Copa de la Liga Profesional appearances as league appearances.

References

  1. 1 2 "Franco Paredes". World Football. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Argentina - F. Paredes". Soccerway. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  3. ↑ "Quién es Franco Paredes, la sorpresa de Marcelo Gallardo en la lista de River para la Copa Libertadores". Infobae. 19 July 2019. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  4. ↑ "Franco Paredes: "Gallardo te exige estar concentrado los noventa minutos"". River Plate. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  5. ↑ "De River a Defensa y Justicia: Ya son oficiales las salidas rumbo al equipo de Hernán Crespo de los futbolistas Franco Paredes y Enzo Fernández". TNT Sports. 22 August 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  6. ↑ "Defensa y Justicia incorporó a Franco Paredes y Enzo Fernández". Grupo la Provincia. 22 August 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.
  7. ↑ "En River debutó el primo de un ex Boca". Olé. 4 March 2020. Retrieved 5 November 2020.


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