Jorge Figal

BIOGRAPHY

Jorge Nicolás Figal was born on April 3, 1994 in America, Argentina. He is a centre-back in Major League Soccer.

Figal's career began with then-Primera B Nacional side Independiente in 2014, with his debut for the first-team coming on May 4 against Gimnasia de Jujuy; a match Independiente lost 1–0. Figal made five more appearances in all competitions in his first season with the club as they were promoted into the Primera División. His top division debut came on August 10, 2014 in a 3–0 home victory versus Atlético de Rafaela. Eighteen more appearances came in the rest of 2014 and in the following season, 2015, before he was loaned out to Primera División club Olimpo in February 2016. Figal scored his first pro goal against Rosario Central on April 2nd.

He returned to Independiente in June ahead of 2016–17, a campaign that saw him net his first goal for the team; versus Arsenal de Sarandí on April 23, 2017. Sixty-nine total appearances came in the three seasons following his loan away. After being a part of Independiente's 2017 Copa Sudamericana winning squad, Figal appeared at the following year's Suruga Bank Championship; which they also won, following a win in Japan over Cerezo Osaka.

On 30 January 2020, Figal joined Major League Soccer expansion side Inter Miami CF.

In August 2019, Figal received a senior call-up from Lionel Scaloni for the Argentina National Team friendlies in the succeeding September against Chile and Mexico in the United States.