Iván Tapia (born 23 November 1998) is an Argentine professional

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who plays as an

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for

Barracas Central Club Atlético Barracas Central is an Argentine professional association football, football club from the district of Barracas, Buenos Aires. Established in 1904, Barracas Central returned to the Argentine Primera División, Primera División, th ...

. He is the son of

Claudio Tapia Claudio Fabián "Chiqui" Tapia (born 22 September 1964) is an Argentine football executive and current President of the Argentine Football Association (Spanish: ''Asociación del Fútbol Argentino'') and Liga Profesional de Fútbol (an entity tha ...

Career

Tapia started his career with

. He appeared for his senior bow in the

2015 Primera B Metropolitana The 2015 Argentine Primera B Nacional season was the 30th season of Argentine second division, with a total of 22 competing teams. It began 14 February and ended 14 November 2015. Although there was some use of a different name earlier in the yea ...

under manager Marcelo Barrera, coming off the bench at the interval of a 5–4 victory over

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on 14 November. No appearances followed in the subsequent

2016 2016 was designated as: * International Year of Pulses by the sixty-eighth session of the United Nations General Assembly. * International Year of Global Understanding (IYGU) by the International Council for Science (ICSU), the Internationa ...

season, though he returned in 2016–17 to play fourteen times. Tapia scored his first goal in a 2–2 draw with

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in April 2018, with another arriving in February 2019 against

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; a match his brother also participated in.

Personal life

Tapia's brother

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and father

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also played football professionally for Barracas Central. His grandfather Hugo Moyano and cousin Facundo Moyano also have a footballing background.

Career statistics

Honours

;Barracas Central *

Primera B Metropolitana Primera B Metropolitana is one of two professional leagues that form the third level of the Argentine football league system. The division is made up of 17 clubs mainly from the city of Buenos Aires and its metropolitan area, Greater Buenos Aires ...

: 2018–19

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Tapia, Ivan 1998 births Living people Tapia family Footballers from Buenos Aires Argentine men's footballers Men's association football midfielders Primera B Metropolitana players Primera Nacional players Argentine Primera División players Barracas Central players San Lorenzo de Almagro footballers 21st-century Argentine sportsmen