| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Joaquín Blázquez[1] | ||
| Date of birth | (2001-01-28)28 January 2001 (age 24) | ||
| Place of birth | Luque, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.93 m (6 ft 4 in)[2] | ||
| Position | Goalkeeper | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Independiente (on loan fromTalleres) | ||
| Number | 1 | ||
| Youth career | |||
| 2013–2019 | Talleres | ||
| 2019 | →Valencia (loan) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 2019– | Talleres | 4 | (0) |
| 2019 | →Valencia B (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2022–2023 | →Brest (loan) | 1 | (0) |
| 2024 | →Platense (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| 2025– | →Independiente (loan) | 0 | (0) |
| International career‡ | |||
| 2019 | Argentina U18 | ||
| 2019 | Argentina U20 | 4 | (0) |
| 2020–2021 | Argentina U23 | 2 | (0) |
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals as of 18:48, 30 January 2025 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals as of 11 June 2021 | |||
Joaquín Blázquez (born 28 January 2001) is an Argentine professionalfootballer who plays as agoalkeeper forIndependiente, on loan fromTalleres.[3]
Blázquez was spotted byTalleres scouts in 2013, as he soon joined theCórdoba club.[4] In November 2017, having just signed his first professional contract at the age of sixteen, Blázquez had a week's trial atPremier League outfitLiverpool.[4][5] Months after trialling in England, Blázquez made three appearances at the2018 U-20 Copa Libertadores for Talleres.[3] In February 2019, Blázquez completed a loan move to Spain withValencia B ofSegunda División B.[6] He mainly featured for their youth in theDivisión de Honor Juvenil andUEFA Youth League, appearing four times in the latter, but did make the B-team's bench four times.[3][7]
Despite signing for eighteen months and with a purchase option, Blázquez departed Valencia B at the beginning of 2020 after they declined to sign him.[8][9] He soon made the substitute's bench for Talleres' matches in thePrimera División againstHuracán andPatronato in February and March.[3] Blázquez made his senior debut on 19 December in aCopa de la Liga Profesional home draw versusAtlético Tucumán, after replacing an injuredMarcos Díaz after just sixteen minutes; back-up goalkeeperMauricio Caranta had already been ruled out due to injury.[3][10][11]
On 27 July 2022, Blázquez joinedBrest in France on loan, with an option to buy.[12]
Blázquez represented Argentina at U18,U20 andU23 level.[3] For the U18s, he featured at the2019 COTIF Tournament in Spain.[13] For the U20s, Blázquez was on the bench for his country's four matches at the2019 FIFA U-20 World Cup in Poland.[3][14] For the U23s, he went unused for seven games as Argentina won the2020 CONMEBOL Pre-Olympic Tournament in Colombia.[3] In November 2018, Blázquez trained against thesenior squad ahead of their friendlies withMexico.[15][16]
| Club | Season | League | National cup | League cup | Continental | Other | Total | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Talleres | 2018–19 | Primera División | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |
| 2019–20 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2020–21[nb 1] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
| Valencia B (loan) | 2018–19 | Segunda División B | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||
| 2019–20 | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Total | 0 | 0 | — | — | — | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | |||||
| Career total | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | — | 0 | 0 | 1 | 0 | |||
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