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Papu Gómez

Alejandro Darío Gómez (Spanish pronunciation: [aleˈxandɾo ðaˈɾi.o ˈɣomes];[α] born 15 February 1988), known as Papu Gómez, is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward, left winger or attacking midfielder. He is banned from competing professionally until October 2025 due to having failed an anti-doping test.

Papu Gómez
Gómez with Atalanta in 2017
Personal information
Full name Alejandro Darío Gómez[1]
Date of birth (1988-02-15) 15 February 1988 (age 36)
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.67 m (5 ft 6 in)[2]
Position(s) Forward, left winger, attacking midfielder
Youth career
2003–2006 Arsenal de Sarandí
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2005–2009 Arsenal de Sarandí 77 (12)
2009–2010 San Lorenzo 48 (8)
2010–2013 Catania 106 (16)
2013–2014 Metalist Kharkiv 23 (3)
2014–2021 Atalanta 209 (50)
2021–2023 Sevilla 66 (9)
2023–2024 Monza 2 (0)
International career‡
2007 Argentina U20 11 (2)
2017–2022 Argentina 17 (3)
Medal record
Men's football
Representing  Argentina
FIFA World Cup
Winner 2022 Qatar
Copa América
Winner 2021 Brazil
CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions
Winner 2022 England
FIFA U-20 World Cup
Winner 2007 Canada
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 03:27, 21 October 2023 (UTC)
‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 23:28, 3 December 2022 (UTC)

Gómez started his club career in his home country with Arsenal de Sarandí in 2005, before joining San Lorenzo in 2009. The following year, he was signed by Italian club Catania. In 2013, he joined Ukrainian side Metalist Kharkiv, where he remained for a single season, before returning to Italy to play for Atalanta. In 2019–20, Gómez set the Serie A record for most assists in a single season with sixteen, and was named to the Serie A Team of the Year.

Although he was born in Argentina, Gómez is a dual citizen of Argentina and Italy, having gained Italian citizenship on 14 May 2016.[3] He made his senior international debut for Argentina in a friendly against Singapore in 2017, during which he also scored his first international goal. He later took part in Argentina's victorious 2021 Copa América and 2022 FIFA World Cup campaigns.

Club career

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Arsenal de Sarandí

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Gómez began his career playing with the youth squad of Argentine side Arsenal de Sarandí, debuting for the team in 2003. Two years later, he was officially called up to the first team, but did not feature as a regular with the side until the 2006 Torneo Apertura, during which he scored 2 goals in 15 appearances, as Arsenal finished the season in 5th place.

On 30 November 2007, Gómez scored the 2 most important goals up to that point of his career in the first leg of the Copa Sudamericana Finals, away against favourites Club América of Liga MX, giving Arsenal a valuable 3–2 lead going into the second leg.[4] On 5 December, Arsenal lost the return leg 2–1, but won their first international title on the away goals rule.[5]

The 2008–09 season was his breakout season, as he scored 8 goals in 18 appearances and got into the top scoring charts with braces against Independiente and Velez Sarsfield.[6][7]

San Lorenzo

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San Lorenzo de Almagro signed Gómez for a 2 million dollar transfer fee, half of his estimated market value, in time for the 2009 Clausura tournament.[8] His impressive play, including netting 8 times in 48 appearances for Los Santos, attracted the attention of several high-profile scouts. This led to his transfer to Italian Serie A Catania in July 2010, for €3 million.[9]

Catania

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Catania officially welcomed their new 22-year-old signing on 21 July 2010, and he made his first appearance with the club 9 days later in a 1–0 friendly win against Greek side Iraklis. Gómez was immediately inserted into the starting XI and soon became integral to his club's record-breaking renaissance over the next 3 seasons.

El Papu contributed 4 goals and 5 assists in each of his first 2 seasons. His breakthrough campaign came during the 2012–13 season, when his playmaking and offensive prowess became the main catalyst of the team, propelling his side to club record highs for home and overall victories, and, for their 5th successive year, points.[10] The Rossazzurri clinched an eighth-place finish in Serie A, equaling their historic best placement in the league for the first time since the 1964–65 season, but 5 points shy of earning their inaugural appearance in the UEFA Europa League. The side that managed to achieve these record-breaking achievements was described as the best Catania side in the club's history.[11] Gómez finished the year with a career high 8 goals in 36 appearances, making him the second highest on the team behind Gonzalo Bergessio, as well as 7 assists, making him the club's joint highest assist provider, and the tenth best provider in Serie A.[10]

Catania, for reasons that were never clarified, sold Gómez during the summer and replaced him with the injury-prone and inconsistent Sebastián Leto, whom they acquired on a free transfer from Panathinaikos.[12] Despite having four of their top six offensive players return, and later five of their six when Francesco Lodi was reacquired on loan from Genoa in January, Catania's performances declined heavily, which saw them fall to 18th position in the league, and as a result, they were ultimately relegated.[10][13]

Metalist Kharkiv

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Gómez with Metalist in 2013

Rebuffing offers from several big clubs, including Atletico Madrid, Fiorentina, and Inter Milan, Gómez himself requested a transfer to little-known Metalist Kharkiv of the Ukrainian Premier League, citing the club's commitment to growth and the opportunity to play in the upcoming UEFA Champions League as his reasons.[14] On 2 August 2013, he signed four-year contract with the club, which included a €12 million release clause, following a €7 million transfer fee.[15] However, things did not go well for him with the side from the beginning.

UEFA upheld Metalist's ban from the Champions League two weeks later because of the club's involvement in match fixing in 2008.[16] By the December winter break, failing to settle into his new surroundings due to a combination of the league's lack of visibility and quality, which he believed made playing in it a waste of time, as well as adverse environmental and linguistic issues in Ukraine itself, which he saw as insurmountable, Gómez wanted out of his contract. He therefore requested a transfer back to Serie A as soon as possible, preferably to Fiorentina, and by January 2014, offered to accept a salary reduction in order to have this accomplished.[17] This request went unfilled, however, and he ultimately played in 23 games, scoring 3 goals and setting up 4 others, helping the Hor'ky finish 3rd overall.

Gómez refused to return to Ukraine the following season because of the volatile and violent political climate that emerged during his time there. He stated "It's an anguished situation, very unstable, as we are all sad and living in a state of panic...I have no intention of coming back...I will stay in Buenos Aires...Until there can be guarantees of safety, I cannot expose my family to these dangers."[18] Many players, especially foreign ones, also left the league for this same reason, including three of Gomez's teammates, and six from reigning league Champions Shakhtar Donetsk.[19] As a result, the Ukrainian League saw its foreign player total reduced from 170 to 60 over the next two years.[20]

Atalanta

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Gómez with Atalanta in 2014

Following Giacomo Bonaventura's departure to Milan on 1 September 2014, Atalanta acquired Gómez on the same day, signing him on a three-year deal in the last hours of the summer transfer window in Italy.[21] Gómez had a decent first season, contributing 3 goals and 2 assists in 24 appearances to a poor, offensively-challenged Nerazzurri squad that struggled and narrowly avoided relegation, finishing fourth from the bottom, 3 points ahead of Serie B-bound Cagliari.

The following season, Gómez lead his club in both goals and assists, with 7 and 6 respectively, as he rekindled the form he had shown in his final season at Catania, and, despite the continued lack of attacking support, steered Atalanta to a respectable 13th-place finish in the league.[22] His performances spurred the interest of several big clubs, which pushed the Bergamese side to extend his contract until June 2020, on 4 February 2016.[23]

During the 2016–17 season, Gómez managed to score an unprecedented total of 16 goals as his team finished in the fourth place contrary to the lower pre-season expectations. In 2017, following the departure and retirement of Cristian Raimondi, he became the team's captain.

As captain, Gómez helped lead Atalanta to a historic third-place finish in the 2018–19 Serie A season, earning a spot in the 2019–20 UEFA Champions League, as well as reaching the 2019 Coppa Italia Final.[24][25]

Gómez scored his first Champions League goal on 26 November 2019 with a brilliant piece of individual ability in a 2–0 home win against Dinamo Zagreb.[26] During the 2019–20 season, Gómez set the Serie A record for most assists in a single season with 16 assists.[27]

During half time of Atalanta's Champions League group stage match against FC Midtjylland on 1 December 2020, there was a heated exchange between Gómez and manager Gian Piero Gasperini over his positioning on the pitch. Gómez did not re-enter the pitch at the start of the second half. Gomez later claimed that Gasperini tried to "physically attack" him, adding that Gasperini never apologized to the player.[28] After starting in Atalanta's final group stage match against Ajax, the relationship between Gómez and Gasperini completely broke down.[29] Despite amending his relationship with the president, Gómez stated that his relationship with Gasperini could not be fixed;[30] he made his last appearance for the club in a Serie A match against Juventus on 16 December.[31] Gómez requested a transfer in the January transfer window, to which Atalanta agreed, stating however that they would not sell him to a Serie A rival.[31]

Sevilla

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On 26 January 2021, La Liga club Sevilla announced the signing of Gómez on a deal running until June 2024.[32] He made his debut for the club on 2 February, playing 60 minutes of Sevilla's 1–0 victory against Almería in the Copa del Rey.[33] Four days later, he scored his first Sevilla goal in a 3–0 win over Getafe.[34] On 1 September 2023, Gómez and Sevilla reached an agreement to terminate his contract with one year left.[35]

Monza

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On 29 September 2023, Gomez joined Italian club Monza on a free transfer.[36]

On 20 October 2023, Monza announced that Gómez had been found to have failed an anti-doping test, resulting in a two-year ban for the player. Gómez took the drug terbutaline in October 2022, during his time with Sevilla.[37][38]

International career

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Gómez playing for Argentina against Nigeria in 2017
 
Gómez playing for Argentina in 2022

In 2007, Gómez was picked to represent the Argentina Under-20 team at the 2007 South American Youth Championship in Paraguay. Later that year he was in the Argentina squad that won the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Canada.

Having only played internationally for Argentina at youth level, dual citizenship was widely believed to have qualified him for selection to the senior Italy national team, for whom he had expressed interest in playing.[3] FIFA has since ruled him ineligible to switch his football nationality, however, because he did not have a dual passport when he first represented Argentina at that level, and does not have Italian lineage, which would have allowed him to override this requirement.[39]

On 19 May 2017, Gómez received his first senior call-up by newly appointed coach Jorge Sampaoli for Argentina's friendlies against Brazil and Singapore in June.[40] He made his senior international debut in the match against Singapore on 13 June, helping Argentina to a 6–0 away win, and also marked his debut by scoring his first international goal, while also setting up a goal for Federico Fazio during the same match.[41] He went to make three more international appearances that year.[42]

In June 2021, Gómez was included in Argentina's squad for the 2021 Copa América in Brazil.[43] On 21 June, he scored the only goal of the match in Argentina's third group match against Paraguay; the result allowed his side to progress to the quarter-finals.[44] A week later, he scored again in a 4–1 win against Bolivia in his team's final group stage match, also helping to win a penalty, which was converted by Lionel Messi.[45]

Gómez was included in Argentina's final 26-man squad for the 2022 FIFA World Cup,[46] starting his nations's opening game against Saudi Arabia and in the Round of 16 against Australia. Argentina went all the way to win a third world title after defeating France on penalties in the final.[47]

The national team's first two friendlies after the World Cup would take place in March 2023 in their native Argentina. Gómez would be the only member of the World Cup-winning squad who would not be present during those games, as Sevilla did not allow him to travel due to an injury he sustained.[48]

Style of play

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A talented, diminutive player, with quick feet, explosive acceleration, and a low centre of gravity, Gómez is a creative, technically gifted, and dynamic footballer, who is renowned for his pace, dribbling skills, and high work-rate.[3][49][50][51][52][53][54][55][56][excessive citations]

Possessing good movement and a powerful and accurate long range shot with either foot, he is known for his eye for goal from midfield,[49][50][51][53][57] although he is also capable of creating goalscoring opportunities for teammates.[49][50][58][59][60][61][62][63][excessive citations] A versatile attacker,[52][64][65] he is capable of playing in several offensive positions,[52][66][67] and has even been deployed as a main striker on occasion,[68] or as a false 9,[69] although he usually plays as a second striker,[50][58][70][71] in a central playmaking role as an attacking midfielder,[72][73][74][75] or as a winger, usually on the left flank, a position which enables him to take on defenders in one on one situations, cut into the centre onto his stronger right foot, and attempt a curling shot at goal,[3][49][50][51][58][72][76][excessive citations] although he was often used on the right wing earlier in his career.[56] Due to his stamina and work-ethic, he has also been deployed in a box-to-box role on occasion.[77] In recent seasons, he has often operated in a free attacking role in the centre, behind another striker, which enables him to link-up with his teammates, roam the pitch at will, change positions with other forwards, lose his markers by dropping off onto the flanks, or find space in the box with his runs and finish off chances; Gómez has described this role as a "false second striker".[50][71][78] He is also an accurate free kick taker,[79][80] and often takes penalties for his team.[81] In addition to his playing ability, Gómez is also known for his leadership qualities, having served as Atalanta's captain.[50][82]

Career statistics

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Club

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As of match played 8 October 2023[42]
Appearances and goals by club, season and competition
Club Season League National cup[a] Continental Other Total
Division Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals Apps Goals
Arsenal de Sarandí 2005–06 Argentine Primera División 5 0 0 0 — — 5 0
2006–07 Argentine Primera División 22 2 0 0 10[b] 3 — 32 5
2007–08 Argentine Primera División 32 2 0 0 11[c] 1 3[d] 0 46 3
2008–09 Argentine Primera División 18 8 0 0 — — 18 8
Total 77 12 0 0 21 4 3 0 101 16
San Lorenzo 2008–09 Argentine Primera División 16 1 0 0 0 0 — 16 1
2009–10 Argentine Primera División 32 7 0 0 10[e] 1 — 42 8
Total 48 8 0 0 10 1 — 58 9
Catania 2010–11 Serie A 36 4 1 0 — — 37 4
2011–12 Serie A 34 4 1 1 — — 35 5
2012–13 Serie A 36 8 3 1 — — 39 9
Total 106 16 5 2 — — 111 18
Metalist Kharkiv 2013–14 Ukrainian Premier League 23 3 1 1 0 0 — 24 4
Atalanta 2014–15 Serie A 24 3 1 0 — — 25 3
2015–16 Serie A 34 7 2 0 — — 36 7
2016–17 Serie A 37 16 2 0 — — 39 16
2017–18 Serie A 33 6 4 1 7[f] 2 — 44 9
2018–19 Serie A 35 7 5 2 6[f] 2 — 46 11
2019–20 Serie A 36 7 1 0 9[g] 1 — 46 8
2020–21 Serie A 10 4 0 0 6[g] 1 — 16 5
Total 209 50 15 3 28 6 — 252 59
Sevilla 2020–21 La Liga 18 3 3 0 2[g] 0 — 23 3
2021–22 La Liga 29 5 4 1 7[h] 0 — 40 6
2022–23 La Liga 19 1 0 0 8[i] 0 — 27 1
Total 66 9 7 1 17 0 — 90 10
Monza 2023–24 Serie A 2 0 0 0 — — 2 0
Career total 531 98 28 7 76 11 3 0 638 116
  1. ^ Includes Coppa Italia, Ukrainian Cup, Copa del Rey
  2. ^ Appearances in Copa Sudamericana
  3. ^ Seven appearances in Copa Libertadores, four appearances and one goal in Copa Sudamericana
  4. ^ Appearances in Recopa Sudamericana and J.League Cup / Copa Sudamericana Championship
  5. ^ Five appearances and one goal in Copa Libertadores, five appearances in Copa Sudamericana
  6. ^ a b Appearances in UEFA Europa League
  7. ^ a b c Appearances in UEFA Champions League
  8. ^ Five appearances in UEFA Champions League, two appearances in UEFA Europa League
  9. ^ Five appearances in UEFA Champions League, three appearances in UEFA Europa League

International

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As of match played 3 December 2022[42]
Appearances and goals by national team and year
National team Year Apps Goals
Argentina 2017 4 1
2020 1 0
2021 6 2
2022 6 0
Total 17 3
Scores and results list Argentina's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Gómez goal.[42]
List of international goals scored by Papu Gómez
No. Date Venue Opponent Score Result Competition
1 13 June 2017 Singapore National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore   Singapore 3–0 6–0 Friendly
2 21 June 2021 Estádio Nacional Mané Garrincha, Brasilia, Brazil   Paraguay 1–0 1–0 2021 Copa América
3 28 June 2021 Arena Pantanal, Cuiabá, Brazil   Bolivia 1–0 4–1 2021 Copa América

Personal life

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Gómez's uncle is former Club Atlético Independiente defender Hugo Villaverde, who is his mother's brother.[83] Gómez is married to Linda Raff, with whom he has three children.[84]

Gómez is a dual citizen of Argentina and Italy, having been granted an Italian passport during his time at Atalanta.[3]

In October 2023, he was banned for two years after testing positive for a banned substance ahead of the 2022 World Cup.[85][86]

Honours

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Arsenal de Sarandí

Sevilla

Argentina U20

Argentina

Individual

Notes

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  1. ^ In isolation, Darío and Gómez are pronounced [daˈɾi.o] and [ˈɡomes] respectively.

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