Rodrigo Santiago

Rodrigo "Lolo" Santiago
Personal information
Full name Rodrigo Daniel Santiago Pintos
Date of birth (1990-03-12) March 12, 1990
Place of birth Montevideo
Uruguay
Height 5 ft 9 in (1.75 m)
Playing position Striker
Club information
Current team
Icon FC
Number 7
Youth career
2003-2008 Parsippany SC
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
2009 New Jersey Rangers 1 (0)
2009 Juventud de Las Piedras 6 (0)
2010-2014 Canadian Soccer Club 22 (3)
2014- Icon FC

* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only.


Rodrigo Daniel Santiago Pintos (born February 17, 1990 in Montevideo, Uruguay[1]) is a professional soccer player from Uruguay who currently plays for Icon FC.

Career

Club

During his time in the states Santiago played most of his youth club soccer in Parsippany Soccer Club.[2] In early 2009, he joined New Jersey Rangers and played only a single game in the USL Premier Development League due to an injury that kept him off the fields for the rest of the season.[3]

Professional

Santiago moved back to Uruguay in July 2009 after 12 years in the United States of America. He joined the u-19 of Juventud de Las Piedras of the Uruguayan Primera División,[4] in 2010 he joined new founded Canadian Soccer Club that was entering the Uruguayan Segunda División Amateur .[5] In 2013, he helped the club win their first ever championship and promotion to the professional Uruguayan Segunda División. Santiago also scored the first official goal in the history of the club Canadian Soccer Club from Uruguay. "Lolo" signed his first professional contract on October 2013 on a one-year agreement with the club. On August 2014 he returned to the United States and signed with professional club team Icon FC of the American Soccer League (ASL) on a one-year deal agreement as well .[6]

References

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