View source for Matías Vuoso

{{Short description|Mexican footballer (born 1981)}}
{{BLP sources|date=July 2018}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=December 2021}}
{{Infobox football biography
| name                = Matías Vuoso
| image               = Matias vuoso.jpg
| upright             = 
| caption             = Vuoso with [[Mexico national football team|Mexico]]
| fullname            = Vicente José Matías Vuoso
| birth_date          = {{birth date and age|df=yes|1981|11|3}}
| birth_place         = [[Mar Del Plata]], Argentina
| height              = 1.79 m
| currentclub         =
| position            = [[Striker (association football)|Striker]]
| youthyears1 =
| youthclubs1 = [[Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente]]
| years1 = 2000–2002
| years2 = 2002–2003
| years3 = 2003–2006
| years4 = 2006
| years5 = 2007–2010
| years6 = 2010–2012
| years7 = 2012–2013
| years8 = 2014–2015
| years9 = 2015–2016
| years10= 2016–2017
| years11= 2017
| clubs1 = [[Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente]]
| clubs2 = [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]]
| clubs3 = [[Santos Laguna]]
| clubs4 = [[Club América|América]]
| clubs5 = [[Santos Laguna]]
| clubs6 = [[Club América|América]]
| clubs7 = [[Atlas F.C.|Atlas]]
| clubs8 = → [[Chiapas F.C.|Chiapas]] (loan)
| clubs9 = [[Cruz Azul]]
| clubs10= [[Club Atlético Talleres (Córdoba)|Talleres de Córdoba]]
| clubs11= [[Correcaminos UAT]]
| caps1 = 65
| caps2 = 0
| caps3 = 102
| caps4 = 20
| caps5 = 124
| caps6 = 63
| caps7 = 57
| caps8 = 33
| caps9 = 27
| caps10 = 1
| caps11 = 12
| goals1 = 14
| goals2 = 0
| goals3 = 57
| goals4 = 5
| goals5 = 37
| goals6 = 22
| goals7 = 10
| goals8 = 9
| goals9 = 5
| goals10= 0
| goals11= 2
| totalcaps = 504
| totalgoals = 161
| nationalyears1 = 2008–2015
| nationalteam1 = [[Mexico national football team|Mexico]] 
| nationalcaps1 = 15
| nationalgoals1 = 6
}}

'''Vicente José Matías Vuoso''' (born 3 November 1981) is a former professional [[association football|footballer]] who played as a [[Striker (association football)|striker]]. Born in Argentina, he played for the [[Mexico national football team|Mexico national team]].

Born in [[Mar del Plata]], Vuoso began his career at [[Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente]] in 2000, then transferring to English club [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] in 2002, where he did not play in a single league match. Since 2003 he has played in Mexico, having two stints with [[Santos Laguna]] and [[Club América]], as well as playing for [[Club Atlas|Atlas]] and [[Chiapas F.C.|Chiapas]].

Vuoso chose to represent [[Mexico national football team|Mexico]] at international level, making his debut in 2008 and featured for them at the [[2015 Copa América]].

== Club career ==

=== Early career ===

Matías Vuoso began his career in the [[Argentine Primera División]] with [[Club Atlético Independiente|Independiente]].  Playing alongside [[Diego Forlán]], Vicente scored seven goals in 29 games for Independiente in 2000–01 and another seven in 35 games in 2001–02.  He left the Argentinian club in June 2002 to sign with English club [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]], joining for £3.5 million. However, Vuoso did not appear in a single game for Manchester City, and was subsequently loaned out to [[Santos Laguna]] for the 2003–04 season.

===Santos Laguna===

Despite moving from the Premier League to the Primera Division Mexicana, in the beginning of his stay in [[Mexico]], Vuoso experienced the same problems at Santos Laguna that he faced at Manchester City. Coming to a club that already boasted an attack that featured Chilean playmaker [[Rodrigo Ruiz]] and Mexican striker [[Jared Borgetti]], Vuoso was exclusively played as a substitute during the first part of the Apertura 2003 season. As fate would have it however, Vuoso was thrown into the starting mix when Borgetti suffered a minor injury that required a two-week absence from the pitch. Vuoso scored in both of the games he started in place of Borgetti and subsequently convinced Santos manager [[Luis Fernando Tena]], who awarded Vuoso a starting spot.

After Jared Borgetti's exit from Santos Laguna following the Clausura 2004 season, Vuoso became Santos Laguna's main goalscoring threat and teammate Rodrigo Ruiz's primary target for his passes. Vuoso exploded with 11 goals in 17 games for Santos in the Apertura 2004 campaign and then followed that up with 16 goals in 19 games the following season.

===América===

Newly appointed [[Club América|América]] manager Luis Fernando Tena brought Vuoso to the club as a reinforcement for the Apertura 2006 campaign. Following the club's  semi-final defeat, Vuoso was sold back to Santos. He only managed to score 5 goals in 20 league matches for América.

===Return to Santos Laguna===

Vuoso was bought by Santos Laguna again after Clausura 2007 for an undisclosed amount of money. Upon his return, a loss of form kept Vuoso on the bench. However, Vuoso would later become a key player in Santos Laguna's 2008 Clausura championship campaign.

However, during the finals of the Clausura 2010, he failed to score twice in two important plays during the second game against Toluca and made that Santos were meant to play extra-time and penalty shots. In the penalty shots he was the fourth player and failed to score his penalty shot allowing Toluca to get the championship.

After this game, Vuoso was transferred to Club America.

===Return to América===

For the Apertura 2010 season, he signed with América, which would be his second stint with the club. In his first season with América, he scored 8 goals, helping América reach the semi-finals, being defeated by his ex-club Santos.

===Atlas===

América sold Vuoso to [[Atlas de Guadalajara]] for the Apertura 2012 tournament. He scored 10 goals in over 50 matches played with Atlas.

====Loan to Chiapas====

Atlas loaned Vuoso to [[Chiapas F.C.]] for the Apertura 2014.

===Cruz Azul===
On 25 July 2015, Cruz Azul announced the signing of Vuoso for the Apertura 2015. During this time, Vuoso was a free agent.

== International career ==

Upon receiving his Mexican citizenship, Vuoso said that if [[Hugo Sánchez]], former coach of the [[Mexico national football team|Mexico national team]], ever needed a striker, he would be honored to wear the green jersey  while helping the country of his new home win. On 3 August 2008 Mexico coach and former [[Manchester City F.C.|Manchester City]] manager [[Sven-Göran Eriksson]] had Matias Vuoso, the second naturalized striker on the Mexico squad, replace [[Omar Arellano (footballer, born 1987)|Omar Arellano]] who injured himself days before.[http://mediotiempo.com/noticia.php?id_noticia=61948]{{Dead link|date=July 2018 |bot=InternetArchiveBot |fix-attempted=yes }} His debut came when he came on as a substitute in a 3–0 win over [[Jamaica national football team|Jamaica]] at the [[Estadio Azteca|Azteca stadium]].

On 15 October 2008, Vuoso scored his first goal with the team against [[Canada men's national soccer team|Canada]] with a header. The game was a World Cup Qualifier Match. On 12 November 2008, Vuoso scored a last minute goal for Mexico to win over [[Ecuador national football team|Ecuador]] 2–1. On 11 March 2009, he scored again twice against Bolivia, in a game that ended 5–1.

On 11 May 2015, Vuoso was called up to participate in the [[2015 Copa América]]. He would make world football headlines by scoring a memorable [[2 (number)#In sports|brace]] in what was a surprising tie against Chile whom were the eventual Copa America winners.

=== International goals ===
:''Scores and results list Mexico's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Vuoso goal.''

{| class="wikitable sortable"
|+ List of international goals scored by Vicente Matías Vuoso
|-
!scope="col"|No.
!scope="col"|Date
!scope="col"|Venue
!scope="col"|Opponent
!scope="col"|Score
!scope="col"|Result
!scope="col"|Competition
|-
| align="center"|1 || 15 October 2008 || [[Commonwealth Stadium (Edmonton)|Commonwealth Stadium]], [[Edmonton]], Canada || {{fb|CAN}} || align="center"|2–2 || align="center"|2–2 || [[2010 FIFA World Cup qualification (CONCACAF)|2010 FIFA World Cup qualification]]
|-
| align="center"|2 || 12 November 2008 || [[Chase Field]], [[Phoenix, Arizona|Phoenix]], United States || {{fb|ECU}} || align="center"|2–1 || align="center"|2–1 || [[Friendly (association football)|Friendly]]
|-
| align="center"|3 || rowspan="2"|11 March 2009 || rowspan="2"|[[Dick's Sporting Goods Park]], [[Commerce City, Colorado|Commerce City]], United States || rowspan="2"|{{fb|BOL}} || align="center"|2–0 || rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 5–1 || rowspan="2"|Friendly
|-
| align="center"|4 || align="center"|4–0
|-
| align="center"|5 || rowspan="2"|15 June 2015 || rowspan="2"|[[Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos|Estadio Nacional]], [[Santiago]], Chile || rowspan="2"|{{fb|CHI}} || align="center"|1–0 || rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" | 3–3 || rowspan="2"|[[2015 Copa América]]
|-
| align="center"|6 || align="center"|3–3
|}

== Personal life ==
During his time with Manchester City, he, along with players [[Daniel Van Buyten]] and [[Djamel Belmadi]], were the victim of a theft by two bankers. In total, workers at the [[Co-operative Banking Group|Co-operative Bank]] stole more than £350,000 from the accounts of the three players. In January 2006, the bank workers, Paul Sherwood, a cashier, and Paul Hanley, his supervisor, were jailed for 32 months and 12 months respectively.<ref>{{cite web| title=Two bankers admit theft from City players| work=news.lifestyle.co.uk| url=http://news.lifestyle.co.uk/uknews/83907-uknews.htm| access-date=25 May 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070927093605/http://news.lifestyle.co.uk/uknews/83907-uknews.htm| archive-date=27 September 2007| df=dmy-all}}</ref><ref>{{cite web| title=Jail after thefts from football stars| work=thescotsman.com| url=http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=154092006| access-date=25 May 2007| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071209113033/http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=154092006| archive-date=9 December 2007| df=dmy-all}}</ref>

==Honours==
'''Santos Laguna'''
*[[Primera División de México]]: [[Primera División Clausura 2008|Clausura 2008]]
*[[InterLiga]]: [[2004 InterLiga|2004]]

'''Individual'''
*[[Primera División de México]] Golden Boot: [[Primera División de México Clausura 2005|Clausura 2005]], [[Primera División de México Apertura 2005|Apertura 2005]] (Shared)

== References ==
{{reflist}}

== External links ==
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20120811021508/http://guardian.touch-line.com/StatsCentre.asp?Lang=0&CTID=67&CPID=171&pStr=Player&PLID=54972&TEID=3799 Guardian statistics]
* {{usurped|1=[https://web.archive.org/web/20120517141717/http://www.futbolxxi.com/Futbolista.aspx?ID=12361&SEOFutbolista=Vuoso+Vicente+Jose+Matias Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI]}} {{in lang|es}} 
* {{MedioTiempo|id=vicente-matias-vuoso}}
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20061112224621/http://www.squarefootball.net/article/article.asp?aid=1810 Article on Vuoso's stay at Man City]
* {{NFT player|27263}}

{{Primera División de México top scorers}}
{{Mexico squad 2015 Copa América}}

{{DEFAULTSORT:Vuoso, Matias}}
[[Category:Argentine emigrants to Mexico]]
[[Category:Naturalized citizens of Mexico]]
[[Category:Mexican men's footballers]]
[[Category:Mexico men's international footballers]]
[[Category:Argentine people of Spanish descent]]
[[Category:Sportspeople of Spanish descent]]
[[Category:Argentine people of Italian descent]]
[[Category:Sportspeople of Italian descent]]
[[Category:Club Atlético Independiente footballers]]
[[Category:Manchester City F.C. players]]
[[Category:Santos Laguna footballers]]
[[Category:Club América footballers]]
[[Category:Atlas F.C. footballers]]
[[Category:Talleres de Córdoba footballers]]
[[Category:Cruz Azul footballers]]
[[Category:Correcaminos UAT footballers]]
[[Category:Expatriate men's footballers in England]]
[[Category:Argentine Primera División players]]
[[Category:Liga MX players]]
[[Category:Men's association football forwards]]
[[Category:1981 births]]
[[Category:Living people]]
[[Category:2015 Copa América players]]
[[Category:Footballers from Mar del Plata]]
[[Category:21st-century Mexican sportsmen]]