Manuel Capasso
Argentine professional footballer
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Manuel Vicente Capasso (born 19 April 1996) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Atlas.[3]
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Capasso in 2020 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Manuel Vicente Capasso | ||
| Date of birth | 19 April 1996 | ||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.88 m (6 ft 2 in)[1] | ||
| Position | Centre-back[2] | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Atlas | ||
| Number | 28 | ||
| 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) |
| 2026– | Atlas | 0 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 15 January 2026 | |||
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 | 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 | ||
- Appearance(s) in the Primera B Metropolitana play-offs