Valentino Lazaro

**Valentino Lazaro** (born 23 March 1996) is an Austrian football player. He plays as an attacking midfielder for FC Red Bull Salzburg in the Austrian Bundesliga.

## Career

He started playing football for Grazer AK and went on to the youth academy of FC Red Bull Salzburg. He played his first game for the first team on 3 November 2012 against Admira Wacker Mödling. At 16 years and 224 days old he was the youngest player ever in the history of the Austrian Bundesliga. He came on in the 87th minute for Valon Berisha and was booked in the 88th minute.

He is also allowed to play for FC Liefering, the farm team of Red Bull Salzburg. This team is in the Heute für Morgen Erste Liga, the second league in Austrian football.

Then he went from Red Bull Salzburg to Hertha BSC. He scored his first goal for Hertha BSC in a 2–0 away win against Bayer Leverkusen on 10 February 2018. 2019 Lazaro joined Inter Milan. The next years he played on loan for Newcastle United and Borussia Mönchengladbach. 2021 he went on loan to Benfica.

## International career

Lazaro played for the Austria Under-16 and Under-17 youth national teams. With the U-17's he played in the 2013 FIFA U-17 World Cup in the United Arab Emirates. Lazaro made his debut for the Austria national team on 30 May 2014 in a 1–1 against Iceland in Innsbruck.

### Club

|rowspan="2"|Club|rowspan="2"|Season|colspan="3"|League|colspan="2"|National Cup|colspan="2"|League Cup|colspan="2"|Europe|colspan="2"|Total|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="7"|Red Bull Salzburg|2012–13|Austrian Bundesliga|5|0|0|0|–|0|0|5|0||
|2013–14|Austrian Bundesliga|11|2|1|0|–|1|0|13|2||||
|2014–15|Austrian Bundesliga|25|4|4|0|–|3|0|32|4||||
|2015–16|Austrian Bundesliga|17|2|4|0|–|1|0|22|2||||
|2016–17|Austrian Bundesliga|29|3|5|2|–|12|2|46|7||||
|2017–18|Austrian Bundesliga|0|0|1|0|–|2|0|3|0||||
|FC Liefering (loan)|2013–14|Austrian First League|3|0|—|–|—|3|0|||||
|rowspan="3"|Hertha BSC|2017–18|Bundesliga|26|2|1|0|–|4|0|31|2||
|2018–19|Bundesliga|31|3|3|0|–|–|34|3|||||
|Hertha BSC II|2017–18|Regionalliga|1|1|—|–|—|1|1|||||
|Inter Milan|2019–20|Serie A|6|0|1|0|–|4|0|11|0|||
|Newcastle United (loan)|2019–20|Premier League|13|1|2|1|0|0|—|15|2|||
|Borussia Mönchengladbach (loan)|2020–21|Bundesliga|22|2|1|0|–|5|0|28|2|||
|Benfica (loan)|2021–22|Primeira Liga|18|0|3|0|2|0|6|0|29|0||
|Torino (loan)|2022–23|Serie A|23|0|2|0|–|–|25|0||||

### International

|National team|Year|Apps|Goals||
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|rowspan="9"|Austria|2014|4|0|
|2015|0|0|||
|2016|1|0|||
|2017|6|0|||
|2018|8|1|||
|2019|9|2|||
|2020|1|0|||
|2021|3|0|||
|2022|4|0|||

- _Scores and results list Austria's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Lazaro goal_.

|No.|Date|Venue|Opponent|Score|Result|Competition|
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
|1.|18 November 2018|Windsor Park, Belfast, Northern Ireland||2–1|2–1|2018–19 UEFA Nations League B|
|2.|10 June 2019|Toše Proeski Arena, Skopje, North Macedonia||1–1|4–1|UEFA Euro 2020 qualification|
|3.|10 October 2019|Ernst-Happel-Stadion, Vienna, Austria||1–1|3–1||

## Honours

**Red Bull Salzburg**
- Austrian Bundesliga: 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
- Austrian Cup: 2011–12, 2013–14, 2014–15, 2015–16, 2016–17
**Individual**
- Bundesliga Goal of the Month: November 2020
- Bundesliga Goal of the Year: 2020–21

## Infobox (football biography)

- **name**: Valentino Lazaro
- **image**: FC RB Salzburg gegen FK Austria Wien (18. März 2018) 21.jpg
- **caption**: Lazaro in 2018
- **full name**: Valentino Lando Lazaro
- **birth place**: Graz, Styria, Austria
- **height**: 1.80 m
- **position**: Midfielder#Wide midfielder, Right midfielder, Defender (association football)#Full-back, full-back
- **currentclub**: Torino FC, Torino
- **clubnumber**: 20
- **youthyears1**: 2002–2011
- **youthclubs1**: Grazer AK
- **youthyears2**: 2011–2012
- **youthclubs2**: FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg
- **years1**: 2012–2017
- **clubs1**: FC Red Bull Salzburg, Red Bull Salzburg
- **caps1**: 87
- **goals1**: 11
- **years2**: 2013
- **clubs2**: → FC Liefering (loan)
- **caps2**: 3
- **goals2**: 0
- **years3**: 2017–2019
- **clubs3**: Hertha BSC
- **caps3**: 57
- **goals3**: 5
- **years4**: 2017
- **clubs4**: Hertha BSC II
- **caps4**: 1
- **goals4**: 1
- **years5**: 2019–2023
- **clubs5**: Inter Milan
- **caps5**: 6
- **goals5**: 0
- **years6**: 2020
- **clubs6**: → Newcastle United F.C., Newcastle United (loan)
- **caps6**: 13
- **goals6**: 1
- **years7**: 2020–2021
- **clubs7**: → Borussia Mönchengladbach (loan)
- **caps7**: 22
- **goals7**: 2
- **years8**: 2021–2022
- **clubs8**: → S.L. Benfica, Benfica (loan)
- **caps8**: 18
- **goals8**: 0
- **years9**: 2022–2023
- **clubs9**: → Torino FC, Torino (loan)
- **caps9**: 23
- **goals9**: 0
- **years10**: 2023–
- **clubs10**: Torino FC, Torino
- **caps10**: 23
- **goals10**: 0
- **nationalyears1**: 2011
- **nationalteam1**: Austria national under-16 football team, Austria U16
- **nationalcaps1**: 4
- **nationalgoals1**: 0
- **nationalyears2**: 2012–2013
- **nationalteam2**: Austria national under-17 football team, Austria U17
- **nationalcaps2**: 17
- **nationalgoals2**: 0
- **nationalyears3**: 2014
- **nationalteam3**: Austria national under-18 football team, Austria U18
- **nationalcaps3**: 2
- **nationalgoals3**: 0
- **nationalyears4**: 2015–2016
- **nationalteam4**: Austria national under-21 football team, Austria U21
- **nationalcaps4**: 6
- **nationalgoals4**: 0
- **nationalyears5**: 2014–
- **nationalteam5**: Austria national football team, Austria
- **nationalcaps5**: 36
- **nationalgoals5**: 3
- **club-update**: 31 August 2023 (UTC)
- **nationalteam-update**: 22:07, 13 June 2022 (UTC)