Ángel Di Maria

Ángel Fabián Di María (Spanish pronunciation: [ˈaŋxel faˈβjan di maˈɾia]; born 14 February 1988) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a right winger or attacking midfielder for Primeira Liga club Benfica and the Argentina national team. He is a prolific winger, he had his clutch goals in World Cup & Copa America finals, he can play as either a winger or attacking midfielder.^[4]

Ángel Di María

Di María with Argentina at the 2018 FIFA World Cup
Personal information
Full name	Ángel Fabián Di María[1]
Date of birth	(1988-02-14) 14 February 1988 (age 37)[2]
Place of birth	Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina
Height	1.78 m (5 ft 10 in)[3]
Position(s)	Winger, attacking midfielder
Team information
Current team	Benfica
Number	11
Youth career
1991–1992	Torito
1992–2005	Rosario Central
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps	(Gls)
2005–2007	Rosario Central	35	(6)
2007–2010	Benfica	76	(7)
2010–2014	Real Madrid	124	(22)
2014–2015	Manchester United	27	(3)
2015–2022	Paris Saint-Germain	197	(56)
2022–2023	Juventus	26	(4)
2023–	Benfica	34	(10)
International career‡
2007	Argentina U20	11	(5)
2008	Argentina U23	6	(2)
2008–2024	Argentina	145	(31)
Medal record Men's football Representing  Argentina FIFA World Cup Winner 2022 Qatar Runner-up 2014 Brazil Copa América Winner 2021 Brazil Runner-up 2015 Chile Runner-up 2016 United States 2019 Brazil CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions Winner 2022 England Olympic Games 2008 Beijing Team FIFA U-20 World Cup Winner 2007 Canada
*Club domestic league appearances and goals, correct as of 01:13, 13 November 2023 (UTC) ‡ National team caps and goals, correct as of 16:55, 13 September 2023 (UTC)

Career

After beginning his career with Rosario Central, Di María moved to Europe in 2007 to play for Benfica of the Portuguese Primeira Liga. He made a €25 million move to Real Madrid three years later, in 2010. After winning the UEFA Champions League with Real Madrid in 2014, he signed for Manchester United in summer 2014 for a national record £59.7 million. In summer 2015, he signed a 4 year contract with Paris Saint-Germain for €63 million.^[5]

A full international for Argentina since 2008, Di María has earned over 50 caps for his country. He scored the goal that gave Argentina first place at the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, and has also represented them at two World Cups and the 2011 Copa América, 2015 Copa América, and the 2016 Copa América Centenario.

Career statistics

Club

As of match played 12 November 2023^[6]

Appearances and goals by club, season and competition

Club	Season	League			National cup		League cup		Continental		Other		Total
		Division	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals	Apps	Goals
Rosario Central	2005–06	Argentine Primera División	10	0	0	0	—		4[a]	0	0	0	14	0
	2006–07	Argentine Primera División	25	6	0	0	—		0	0	0	0	25	6
	Total		35	6	0	0	—		4	0	0	0	39	6
Benfica	2007–08	Primeira Liga	26	0	5	0	3	0	11[b]	1	0	0	45	1
	2008–09	Primeira Liga	24	2	1	0	5	1	5[c]	1	0	0	35	4
	2009–10	Primeira Liga	26	5	1	0	4	1	14[d]	4	0	0	45	10
	Total		76	7	7	0	12	2	30	6	0	0	125	15
Real Madrid	2010–11	La Liga	35	6	8	0	—		10[e]	3	0	0	53	9
	2011–12	La Liga	23	5	2	0	—		7[e]	2	2[f]	0	34	7
	2012–13	La Liga	32	7	9	2	—		11[e]	0	2[f]	1	54	10
	2013–14	La Liga	34	4	7	4	—		11[e]	3	0	0	52	11
	2014–15	La Liga	0	0	0	0	—		0	0	1[f]	0	1	0
	Total		124	22	26	6	—		39	8	5	1	194	37
Manchester United	2014–15	Premier League	27	3	5	1	0	0	—		0	0	32	4
Paris Saint-Germain	2015–16	Ligue 1	29	10	4	0	4	2	10[e]	3	0	0	47	15
	2016–17	Ligue 1	29	6	3	1	3	3	7[e]	4	1[g]	0	43	14
	2017–18	Ligue 1	30	11	6	7	4	2	5[e]	1	0	0	45	21
	2018–19	Ligue 1	30	12	4	3	2	0	8[e]	2	1[g]	2	45	19
	2019–20	Ligue 1	26	8	2	0	3	1	9[e]	3	1[g]	1	41	13
	2020–21	Ligue 1	27	4	5	0	—		10[e]	1	1[g]	0	43	5
	2021–22	Ligue 1	26	5	0	0	—		5[e]	0	0	0	31	5
	Total		197	56	24	11	16	8	54	14	4	3	295	92
Juventus	2022–23	Serie A	26	4	4	0	—		10[h]	4	—		40	8
Benfica	2023–24	Primeira Liga	9	5	0	0	1	1	3[e]	0	1[i]	1	14	7
Career total			494	103	66	18	29	11	140	32	10	5	739	169

1. Appearances in Copa Libertadores
2. Seven appearances in UEFA Champions League, four appearances and one goal in UEFA Cup
3. Appearances in UEFA Cup
4. Appearances in UEFA Europa League
5. Appearances in UEFA Champions League
6. Appearance(s) in Supercopa de España
7. Appearance in Trophée des Champions
8. Three appearances in UEFA Champions League, seven appearances and four goals in UEFA Europa League
9. Appearance in Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira

International

As of match played 16 November 2023^[7]

Appearances and goals by national team and year

National team	Year	Apps	Goals
Argentina	2008	1	0
	2009	5	0
	2010	11	2
	2011	10	3
	2012	8	3
	2013	9	1
	2014	13	2
	2015	13	4
	2016	12	3
	2017	10	1
	2018	5	1
	2019	5	0
	2020	2	0
	2021	14	2
	2022	11	6
	2023	6	1
Total		135	29

As of match played 12 September 2023

Scores and results list Argentina's goal tally first, score column indicates score after each Di María goal^[8]

List of international goals scored by Ángel Di María

No.	Date	Venue	Opponent	Score	Result	Competition
1	24 May 2010	Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Canada	3–0	5–0	Friendly
2	11 August 2010	Aviva Stadium, Dublin, Ireland	Republic of Ireland	1–0	1–0	Friendly
3	9 February 2011	Stade de Genève, Carouge, Switzerland	Portugal	1–0	2–1	Friendly
4	11 July 2011	Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes, Córdoba, Argentina	Costa Rica	3–0	3–0	2011 Copa América
5	6 September 2011	Bangabandhu National Stadium, Dhaka, Bangladesh	Nigeria	2–0	3–1	Friendly
6	2 June 2012	Estadio Antonio Vespucio Liberti, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Ecuador	4–0	4–0	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
7	15 August 2012	Commerzbank-Arena, Frankfurt am Main, Germany	Germany	3–0	3–1	Friendly
8	7 September 2012	Estadio Mario Alberto Kempes, Córdoba, Argentina	Paraguay	1–0	3–1	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
9	10 September 2013	Estadio Defensores del Chaco, Asunción, Paraguay	Paraguay	1–0	5–2	2014 FIFA World Cup qualification
10	1 July 2014	Arena Corinthians, São Paulo, Brazil	Switzerland	1–0	1–0	2014 FIFA World Cup
11	3 September 2014	Esprit Arena, Düsseldorf, Germany	Germany	4–0	4–2	Friendly
12	6 June 2015	Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario, San Juan, Argentina	Bolivia	1–0	5–0	Friendly
13				5–0
14	30 June 2015	Estadio Municipal de Concepción, Concepción, Chile	Paraguay	3–1	6–1	2015 Copa América
15				4–1
16	24 March 2016	Estadio Nacional Julio Martínez Prádanos, Santiago, Chile	Chile	1–1	2–1	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
17	6 June 2016	Levi's Stadium, Santa Clara, United States	Chile	1–0	2–1	Copa América Centenario
18	15 November 2016	Estadio San Juan del Bicentenario, San Juan, Argentina	Colombia	3–0	3–0	2018 FIFA World Cup qualification
19	13 June 2017	National Stadium, Kallang, Singapore	Singapore	6–0	6–0	Friendly
20	30 June 2018	Kazan Arena, Kazan, Russia	France	1–1	3–4	2018 FIFA World Cup
21	10 July 2021	Estádio do Maracanã, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil	Brazil	1–0	1–0	2021 Copa América
22	12 November 2021	Estadio Campeón del Siglo, Montevideo, Uruguay	Uruguay	1–0	1–0	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
23	27 January 2022	Estadio Zorros del Desierto, Calama, Chile	Chile	1–0	2–1	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
24	25 March 2022	La Bombonera, Buenos Aires, Argentina	Venezuela	2–0	3–0	2022 FIFA World Cup qualification
25	1 June 2022	Wembley Stadium, London, England	Italy	2–0	3–0	2022 Finalissima
26	16 November 2022	Zayed Sports City Stadium, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates	United Arab Emirates	2–0	5–0	Friendly
27				3–0
28	18 December 2022	Lusail Iconic Stadium, Lusail, Qatar	France	2–0	3–3 (aet) (4–2 p)	2022 FIFA World Cup
29	28 March 2023	Estadio Único Madre de Ciudades, Santiago del Estero, Argentina	Curaçao	6–0	7–0	Friendly

Honours

Benfica

• Primeira Liga: 2009–10
• Taça da Liga: 2008–09, 2009–10
• Supertaça Cândido de Oliveira: 2023^[9]

Real Madrid

• La Liga: 2011–12
• Copa del Rey: 2010–11, 2013–14
• Supercopa de España: 2012
• UEFA Champions League: 2013–14
• UEFA Super Cup: 2014

Paris Saint-Germain

• Ligue 1: 2015–16, 2017–18,^[10] 2018–19,^[11] 2019–20,^[12] 2021–22^[13]
• Coupe de France: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18,^[14] 2019–20,^[15] 2020–21^[16]
• Coupe de la Ligue: 2015–16, 2016–17, 2017–18, 2019–20
• Trophée des Champions: 2016, 2018,^[17] 2019,^[18] 2020^[19]

Argentina U20

• FIFA U-20 World Cup: 2007

Argentina Olympic

• Olympic Games: 2008

Argentina

• FIFA World Cup: 2022^[20]
• Copa América: 2021^[21]
• CONMEBOL–UEFA Cup of Champions: 2022^[22]

Individual

• Argentine Footballer of the Year: 2014
• FIFA FIFPro World11: 2014
• FIFA World Cup Dream Team: 2014^[23]
• IFFHS CONMEBOL Team of the Decade 2011–2020^[24]
• UEFA Team of the Year: 2014^[25]
• ESM Team of the Year: 2015–16, 2019–20^[26]
• UEFA Champions League Squad of the Season: 2013–14
• UEFA Champions League top assist provider: 2019–20
• UEFA Europa League top assist provider: 2009–10
• Primeira Liga top assist provider: 2009–10
• La Liga top assist provider: 2013–14^[27]
• Ligue 1 top assist provider: 2015–16,^[28] 2019–20^[29]
• SJPF Player of the Month: April 2010
• UNFP Ligue 1 Player of the Month: December 2015
• UNFP Ligue 1 Team of the Year: 2015–16,^[30] 2018–19^[31]