Agustín José Urzi (born 4 May 2000) is an Argentine professional

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who plays as a winger for

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, on loan from

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club Juárez.

Club career

Urzi's career began in the system of

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side Banfield, joining the club's academy in 2008. He started appearing in their first-team squad during the 2018–19 season under manager

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, who selected the forward on the substitutes bench on 25 November 2018, for a fixture with Racing Club; though he was unused. A week later, on 1 December, Urzi made his professional debut in a home defeat to

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; featuring for the last twenty-seven minutes, having been subbed on in place of Nicolás Silva. He ended the 2018–19 campaign with goals in games against

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and

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International career

Urzi trained with the Argentina U19s in March 2018. He was selected by them for the

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in Bolivia, a competition in which he was notably sent off during a semi-final defeat to Uruguay. Urzi was called up by

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's U20s in May 2019 for the

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in Poland. He played in all four of Argentina's fixtures in Poland, as they reached the round of sixteen. Also in 2019, Urzi was picked by the U23s for the

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in Peru. Urzi appeared in four matches, including in the final against Honduras when he also scored, as they won the trophy. In 2020, Urzi scored one goal in six games as Argentina won the

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Career statistics

Honours

Racing Club *

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Argentina U23 *

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* Pre-Olympic Tournament:

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* * * * * * 2000 births Living people Footballers from Lomas de Zamora Argentine men's footballers Argentina men's youth international footballers Argentina men's under-20 international footballers Argentine expatriate men's footballers Footballers at the 2019 Pan American Games Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina Pan American Games footballers for Argentina Pan American Games gold medalists in football Medalists at the 2019 Pan American Games Olympic footballers for Argentina Footballers at the 2020 Summer Olympics Men's association football wingers Argentine Primera División players Club Atlético Banfield footballers FC Juárez footballers Racing Club de Avellaneda footballers Club Atlético Huracán footballers Argentine sportspeople of Italian descent Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Mexico Expatriate men's footballers in Mexico 21st-century Argentine sportsmen Copa Sudamericana–winning players {{Argentina-footy-forward-2000s-stub