Full name Nicolas Martin Pareja Name Nicolas Pareja Career start 2004 Years Team Weight 75 kg | Number 21 Height 1.83 m Playing position Role Footballer Salary 3 million EUR (2012) | |
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Date of birth (1984-01-19) 19 January 1984 (age 31) Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina Current team Sevilla FC (#21 / Defender) Similar People Unai Emery, Valeri Karpin, Idriss Carlos Kameni, Mateo Musacchio, Shunsuke Nakamura Profiles | ||
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Nicolás "Nico" Martín Pareja (born 19 January 1984) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays for Spanish club Sevilla FC as a central defender.
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Club career
Born in Buenos Aires, Pareja started playing for Argentinos Juniors. He was bought for by R.S.C. Anderlecht in 2006 for €2 million, as a replacement for Vincent Kompany. Despite some injury problems he was regularly used during his two-year spell in Belgium, pairing mainly Roland Juhász.
Pareja joined Spanish club RCD Espanyol in the 2008 summer, for a fee of €4.5 million. He made his La Liga debut on 14 September, playing the full 90 minutes in a 1–0 away win against Recreativo de Huelva, and went on to start in all his league appearances for the Catalans.
In August 2010, Pareja signed Russian club FC Spartak Moscow. After featuring regularly in his first two seasons, he appeared in only 12 matches during his third, due to rotations with Salvatore Bocchetti and Juan Insaurralde.
On 4 July 2013 Pareja, was loaned to Sevilla FC. He appeared in 37 competitive matches in his debut campaign, including 12 in the UEFA Europa League which his team won; subsequently, he was selected to the 18-man Europa League squad of the season, along with teammates Beto, Stéphane Mbia and Ivan Rakitić.
On 23 June 2014, the Andalusians activated his buyout clause for €2.5 million, and Pareja signing a three-year deal. On 3 January of the following year, whilst celebrating his 100th appearance in Spain's top flight, he scored the game's only goal at home against Celta de Vigo, through a direct free kick; on 23 April, early into a Europa League quarter-final contest at FC Zenit Saint Petersburg, he suffered an anterior cruciate ligament to his right knee, going on to be sidelined until the end of the year.
International career
Pareja was part of the Argentine Olympic team at the 2008 Summer Olympics in Beijing, contributing with five appearances to the gold medal conquest. He gained his first cap for the full side on 17 November 2010, in a 1–0 friendly win with Brazil.
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