Thomas Rodríguez Trogsar (born 5 April 1996) is a

Chile Chile, officially the Republic of Chile, is a country in the western part of South America. It is the southernmost country in the world, and the closest to Antarctica, occupying a long and narrow strip of land between the Andes to the east a ...

an professional

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who plays as a

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for Unión Española.

Career

Rodríguez had spells with River Plate and Vélez Sarsfield in his youth career prior to joining Banfield. His professional career got started in 2015 with Banfield of the

Argentine Primera División The Primera División (; en, "First Division"), known officialy as Liga Profesional de Fútbol, or Torneo Binance for sponsorship reasons, is a professional football league in Argentina, organised by the Argentine Football Association (AFA). Th ...

. He made his debut on 1 November, coming on as a second-half substitute in a league defeat to Rosario Central. In July 2017, Rodríguez joined Italian football by signing for

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side

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. After making his Genoa debut in the

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on 30 November 2017 versus

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, Rodríguez left the club on loan in January 2018 to join

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of the

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. He didn't make a senior appearance in six months with the club. On 9 August 2018,

Chilean Primera División The Chilean Primera División (English: First Division) is the top-tier league of the Chilean football league system. It is organized by the ''Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional, ANFP''. The league is known as the Campeonato AFP PlanVital ...

Unión La Calera Unión La Calera is a Chilean football club based in La Calera and competes the Primera División de Chile. It was founded as Club de Deportes La Calera on 26 January 1954, after the merger of three teams from the city: ''Condor'', ''Calera Come ...

completed the loan signing of Rodríguez. He scored his first senior goal against

Deportes Antofagasta Deportes Antofagasta is a Chilean football club based in the city of Antofagasta currently playing in the Campeonato Nacional. The club's home stadium is the Estadio Bicentenario Calvo y Bascuñán, which has a capacity of 21,178. History The ...

on 18 August. Overall, Rodríguez netted three goals in twenty games for them. He returned to his parent team on 30 June. Rodríguez had interest from other Chilean teams upon returning to Genoa, though the ANFP prevented the right midfielder from joining another top-flight outfit as it went against league rules regarding multiple contracts in a single campaign; his father and agent Leonardo appealed the ruling. He terminated his Genoa contract in August. In August 2019, Rodríguez rejoined Unión La Calera on a free transfer.

Personal life

He is the son of former Argentine international footballer

Leonardo Rodríguez Leonardo ("Leo") Adrián Rodríguez Iacobitti (born 27 August 1966) is an Argentine former football midfielder. He played for nine different club sides in his career, and represented the Argentina national football team between 1991 and 1994. ...

, who is a historical player of Universidad de Chile.

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Rodríguez, Thomas 1996 births Living people Footballers from Santiago Chilean men's footballers Chilean people of Argentine descent Sportspeople of Argentine descent Men's association football midfielders Chilean expatriate men's footballers Expatriate men's footballers in Argentina Expatriate men's footballers in Italy Expatriate men's footballers in Portugal Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Argentina Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Italy Chilean expatriate sportspeople in Portugal Argentine Primera División players Serie A players Primeira Liga players Chilean Primera División players Club Atlético Banfield footballers Genoa CFC players Vitória F.C. players Unión La Calera footballers Club Universidad de Chile footballers