Axel Encinas
Personal information
Date of birth (2004-05-24) 24 May 2004
Position(s) Midfielder
Team information
Current team
 River Plate
Youth career
San Calal
River Plate
Senior career*
Years Team Apps (Gls)
River Plate 0 (0)
International career
2023 Argentina U20 3 (0)
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 13:25, 09 May 2023 (UTC)

Axel Encinas (born 24 May 2004) is an Argentine footballer who is an attacking midfielder at Club Atletico River Plate and plays for the Argentina national under-20 football team.

Early life

From the San Jorge neighborhood, in Don Torcuato, the same area as Argentine professional footballer Juan Román Riquelme heralded from.[1] He played at the San Calal club, in Sordeaux, near Don Torcuato before joining the youth system at River Plate, for whom he played as a winger and a striker before settling into a number 10 role. He impressed enough to begin training with the first team occasionally from his mid-teens where he received advice and coaching from Marcelo Gallardo.[2] He has a reputation for possessing good ball control.[3]

Career

In June 2020 he agreed his first professional contract with River Plate, signing a three-year contract.[4] Encinas signed a new contract with River Plate in January 2023 keeping him at the club until 2025.[5]

Personal life

Nicknamed ‘El Gordo’, the same as Argentine World Cup winner Enzo Fernández.[6]

International career

He was named in the Argentina under-20 squad by Javier Mascherano for the 2023 South American U-20 Championship held in Colombia in January and February 2023.[7][8]

References

  1. ↑ "Look how he plays: Axel Encinas, the river's jewel of 20 million dollars who grew up in the Riquelme neighborhood". Clarin.com.
  2. ↑ "Axel Encinas, the teaching that Gallardo left him and his adaptation in Reserva". lapaginamillionaria.com.
  3. ↑ "Video: the viral play of Encinas, the 17-year-old jewel that excites the entire River". Bolavip.com.
  4. ↑ "Who are the 4 young jewels that River Plate will shield with million-dollar clauses". infobae.com.
  5. ↑ "The 10 that River shielded in the pandemic and has just signed a contract that goes to the South American Sub 20". ole.com.
  6. ↑ "River starts 2023 with the signing of the jewel Echeverri and three more youth players". Ole.com.
  7. ↑ "Lista oficial de convocados de la Selección Sub 20 para el Sudamericano" (in Spanish). Argentine Football Association. 6 January 2023. Archived from the original on 6 January 2023. Retrieved 7 January 2023.
  8. ↑ "Los números de la Selección en el Sudamericano Sub 20" (in Spanish). Olé. 16 January 2023.
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