Lucas Alberto Simón García (born 1 August 1986) is an Argentine naturalized Chilean former professional footballer who played as a striker.
 Lucas Simón with Cobreloa in 2018. | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Lucas Alberto Simón García | ||
| Date of birth | 1 August 1986 | ||
| Place of birth | Mar del Plata, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.83 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Striker | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2003–2004 | Cadetes | – | (–) |
| 2004–2006 | Nueva Chicago | 40 | (14) |
| 2006–2011 | Piacenza | 73 | (8) |
| 2008–2009 | → Pescara (loan) | 27 | (10) |
| 2010–2011 | → Tigre (loan) | 4 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Unión La Calera | 38 | (12) |
| 2012–2013 | Palestino | 36 | (8) |
| 2013–2016 | Huachipato | 58 | (18) |
| 2016 | Deportivo Municipal | 7 | (0) |
| 2017–2019 | Cobreloa | 77 | (41) |
| 2020 | Botafogo-PB | 7 | (4) |
| 2020–2021 | Deportes Valdivia | 14 | (1) |
| 2021 | Nueva Chicago | 13 | (0) |
| 2022 | Deportes Recoleta | 11 | (0) |
| 2022 | Trasandino | 8 | (3) |
| Total | 413 | (119) | |
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Club career
editEarly career
editBorn in Mar del Plata, Simón started his career at hometown club Cadetes de San Martín. In 2004, he was signed by Primera B Nacional club Nueva Chicago, with whom Simón won the 2006 Clausura Tournament, but lost the championship playoffs against Godoy Cruz. However, despite failing to win the final, he helped his team to earn promotion to the Argentine Primera División, after a 6–3 win against Belgrano, in which Simón scored twice.
Piacenza
editIn July 2006, he was signed by Italian Serie B club Piacenza. He scored 5 league goals in the first season, ranked 5th of the team, as the team third strikers, behind Daniele Cacia and Daniele Degano. In the next season, after Cacia was sold (himself remained in Piacenza due to injury), he became the only central forward in the starting XI, but soon the coach preferred Houssine Kharja as the emergency striker, Julien Rantier and Giuseppe Gemiti in supporting role. In mid-October (round 11), he returned to starting XI until Cacia recovered (round 15). In January 2008, Cacia returned to Fiorentina and Kharja was sold, but the club signed Zlatko Dedič (loan) and Alessandro Tulli, made Simón remained as the third striker.
In 2008–09 Serie B season, the club signed Davide Moscardelli as new central forward, and on 1 September 2008, he left the club along with 2 strikers after the club loaned striker Emanuele Ferraro from Salernitana.[1] Which Simón was loaned to Pescara, and he scored 10 goals in Italian third highest division.
On 1 July 2009, Simón returned to Emilia. He had to compete with Tulli, Tomás Guzmán, Antonio Piccolo and Mattia Graffiedi for the remain place of supporting striker role in 4–3–3 formation, or as a backup central forward in 4–4–2 formation if Moscardelli was not available. The coach more frequently used Simone Guerra as supporting striker and Simón only made 8 start, 7 of them before the arrival of striker Edgar Çani in January.
In June 2010, he was loaned back to Argentina for Tigre.[2]
Unión La Calera
editOn 10 July 2011, Simón joined to Chilean Primera División club Unión La Calera for play the Clausura Tournament of that season, after of put end to his contract with Piacenza.[3] He netted a twice in his debut against Santiago Morning, scoring all goals of the game in a 2–0 home win.[4] On 17 September, he scored another twice for the team of La Calera, during an incredible 3–0 win over Chilean powerhouse Colo-Colo at Santa Laura. On 2 October, against Palestino, he again scored a goal, after of fail to score after two weeks against Audax Italiano and Unión Española. Simón was a key player in the qualification of his team to the playoffs, scoring on 20 November, two of the three goals of his team against Ñublense, in a 3–1 away victory at Nelson Oyarzún Arenas.
Trasandino
editHe signed with Trasandino in the Segunda División Profesional de Chile for the second half of 2022.[5] He retired at the end of the season.[6]
Post-retirement
editFollowing his retirement, Simón returned to his hometown, Mar del Plata, and began to work in football coaching for youth players in the Universo FC academy.[7]
Personal life
editIn January 2022, he acquired the Chilean nationality by residence,[8] keeping the Argentine nationality.[9]
References
edit- ^ "Arrivano Ferraro e Rickler". Piacenza Calcio (in Italian). 1 September 2008. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ "Lucas Simon y Denis Stracqualursi, los primeros refuerzos". Club Atlético Tigre (in Spanish). 19 June 2010. Archived from the original on 30 June 2010. Retrieved 23 October 2010.
- ^ "Unión La Calera se refuerza para el Clausura". Anfp.cl (in Spanish). July 2011. Archived from the original on 2 July 2011. Retrieved 21 August 2011.
- ^ "Unión La Calera vence a Santiago Morning en el Nicolás Chahúan". Emol.com (in Spanish). 28 July 2011.
- ^ @cdtrasandino (29 June 2022). "¡Bienvenido al cóndor, Lucas!" (Tweet) (in Spanish). Retrieved 29 June 2022 – via Twitter.
- ^ "26 JUGADORES SE BENEFICIAN CON FONDO DE RETIRO OTORGADO POR EL SIFUP". SIFUP (in Spanish). 7 December 2023. Retrieved 8 December 2023.
- ^ Tobar, Daniel (4 December 2024). "De goleador a formador de futuras estrellas: la nueva vida de recordada figura del fútbol chileno". En Cancha (in Spanish). Retrieved 4 December 2024.
- ^ Viluñir Silva, JP (5 January 2022). "Lucas Simón recibe la nacionalidad chilena y se ilusiona con un reencuentro con Emiliano Astorga en Cobreloa" (in Spanish). RedGol. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
- ^ "Doble Nacionalidad". Argentina.gob.ar (in Spanish). 12 April 2019. Retrieved 26 April 2022.
External links
edit- La Gazzetta dello Sport (2006–07 season) (in Italian) [dead link]
- La Gazzetta dello Sport (2007–08 season) (in Italian) [dead link]
- Lucas Simón at ESPN FC
- Lucas Simón at Soccerway
- Lucas Simón at TuttoCalciatori.net (in Italian)