{{short description|Argentine professional footballer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{Use dmy dates|date=October 2018}}
{{Infobox football biography | name = Manuel Capasso | image = Manuel Capasso em conferência de Imprensa de 2020 (cropped).jpg | image_size = | caption = Capasso in 2020 | fullname = Manuel Vicente Capasso | birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1996|4|19|df=y}} | birth_place = Buenos Aires, Argentina | height = 1.88 m<ref name="Soccerway"/> | position = Centre-back<ref name="WF1">{{WorldFootball.net|manuel-capasso}}</ref> | currentclub = Atlas | clubnumber = 28 | youthyears1 = 2013–2015 | youthclubs1 = Acassuso | years1 = 2015–2018 | clubs1 = Acassuso | caps1 = 88 | goals1 = 5 | years2 = 2018–2019 | clubs2 = Defensa y Justicia | caps2 = 0 | goals2 = 0 | years3 = 2019–2020 | clubs3 = Aldosivi | caps3 = 0 | goals3 = 0 | years4 = 2019–2020 | clubs4 = → Platense (loan) | caps4 = 17 | goals4 = 2 | years5 = 2020–2021 | clubs5 = Newell's Old Boys | caps5 = 16 | goals5 = 1 | years6 = 2022 | clubs6 = Atlético Tucumán | caps6 = 30 | goals6 = 1 | years7 = 2023–2025 | clubs7 = Vasco da Gama | caps7 = 15 | goals7 = 2 | years8 = 2024 | clubs8 = → Olimpia (loan) | caps8 = 29 | goals8 = 5 | years9 = 2025 | clubs9 = Olimpia | caps9 = 6 | goals9 = 0 | years10 = 2026– | clubs10 = Atlas | caps10 = 0 | goals10 = 0 | club-update = 15 January 2026 }}
'''Manuel Vicente Capasso''' (born 19 April 1996) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a centre-back for Liga MX club Atlas.<ref name=":0">{{Cite web |title=Vasco acerta a contratação do zagueiro Manuel Capasso – Vasco da Gama |url=https://vasco.com.br/vasco-acerta-a-contratacao-do-zagueiro-manuel-capasso/ |access-date=2023-02-19 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>
==Career== Acassuso were Capasso's opening career club, he joined them in 2013.<ref name="Diario Popular">{{cite news|title=Defensa y Justicia puso sus ojos en un central de B Metropolitana|url=https://www.diariopopular.com.ar/quilmeno/defensa-y-justicia-puso-sus-ojos-un-central-b-metropolitana-n356054|accessdate=12 October 2018|work=Diario Popular|date=13 June 2018}}</ref> He was promoted into their senior squad under manager Walter Otta during the 2015 Primera B Metropolitana, marking his professional debut with a late cameo off the substitutes bench against Platense on 17 July.<ref name="Soccerway">{{cite news |title=Argentina - M. Capasso |work=Soccerway |url=https://int.soccerway.com/players/manuel-vicente-capasso/401403/ |accessdate=12 October 2018}}</ref><ref name="BDFA">{{cite news|title=Ficha Estadistica de MANUEL CAPASSO|url=http://www.bdfa.com.ar/jugadores-MANUEL-VICENTE-CAPASSO-109030.html|accessdate=12 October 2018|work=BDFA}}</ref> Capasso scored the first goals of his career in November 2016, netting in consecutive league fixtures versus Deportivo Español and Deportivo Riestra.<ref name="Soccerway"/> He left Acassuso at the end of 2017–18, having made eighty-nine appearances while scoring five times for the club.<ref name="Soccerway"/><ref name="Mundo Ascenso">{{cite news|title=Capasso: Somos un equipo muy capaz, muy maduro|url=https://www.mundoascenso.com.ar/noticia/83015-capasso-somos-un-equipo-muy-capaz-muy-maduro|accessdate=12 October 2018|work=Mundo Ascenso|date=13 March 2018}}</ref> On 1 July 2018, Capasso was signed by Primera División side Defensa y Justicia.<ref name="Soccerway"/>
After no matches in five months for Defensa y Justicia, Capasso terminated his contract in January 2019 to move to fellow Primera División team Aldosivi.<ref name="Vavel">{{cite news|title=Nuevos sueños en Florencio Varela|url=https://www.vavel.com/ar/futbol-argentino/2019/01/13/defensa-y-justicia/963644-un-triunfo-para-sonar-nuevamente.html|accessdate=15 January 2019|work=Vavel|date=14 January 2019}}</ref><ref name="La Capital MdP">{{cite news|title=Aldosivi concretó su primer refuerzo|url=https://www.lacapitalmdp.com/aldosivi-concreto-su-primer-refuerzo/|accessdate=15 January 2019|work=La Capital MdP|date=12 January 2019}}</ref> He didn't appear competitively across the next seven months, subsequently leaving on loan in July 2019 to Primera B Nacional's Platense - the opponents of his career debut.<ref name="Soccerway"/> He scored goals for them against Estudiantes and Agropecuario in sixteen appearances.<ref name="IB1">{{cite news|title="Vuelvo a Aldosivi para jugar y ser importante", dijo Manuel Capasso|url=https://infobrisas.com/nota/26856/%22Vuelvo%20a%20Aldosivi%20para%20jugar%20y%20ser%20importante%22,%20dijo%20Manuel%20Capasso|accessdate=6 October 2020|work=InfoBrisas|date=23 June 2020|archive-date=6 October 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201006132307/https://infobrisas.com/nota/26856/%2522Vuelvo%2520a%2520Aldosivi%2520para%2520jugar%2520y%2520ser%2520importante%2522,%2520dijo%2520Manuel%2520Capasso|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In February 2023, Capasso was transferred to the Brazilian Club Vasco da Gama.<ref name=":0" />
==Career statistics== {{updated|6 October 2020}}.<ref name="Soccerway"/> {| class="wikitable" style="text-align:center" |+ Club statistics |- !rowspan="2"|Club !rowspan="2"|Season !colspan="3"|League !colspan="2"|Cup !colspan="2"|League Cup !colspan="2"|Continental !colspan="2"|Other !colspan="2"|Total |- !Division!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals!!Apps!!Goals |- |rowspan="5"|Acassuso |2015 |rowspan="4|Primera B Metropolitana |6||0||0||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||0||0||6||0 |- |2016 |17||0||0||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||0||0||17||0 |- |2016–17 |32||2||0||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||0||0||32||2 |- |2017–18 |33||3||0||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||1<ref group="lower-alpha" name="PBMPO">Appearance(s) in the Primera B Metropolitana play-offs</ref>||0||34||3 |- !colspan="2"|Total !88!!5!!0!!0!!colspan="2"|—!!colspan="2"|—!!1!!0!!89!!5 |- |rowspan="1"|Defensa y Justicia |rowspan="2|2018–19 |rowspan="3|Primera División |0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0||0 |- |rowspan="3"|Aldosivi |0||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|—||0||0||0||0 |- |2019–20 |0||0||0||0||0||0||colspan="2"|—||0||0||0||0 |- !colspan="2"|Total !0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!colspan="2"|—!!0!!0!!0!!0 |- |rowspan="1"|Platense (loan) |2019–20 |rowspan="1|Primera B Nacional |16||2||1||0||colspan="2"|—||colspan="2"|—||0||0||17||2 |- !colspan="3"|Career total !104!!7!!1!!0!!0!!0!!0!!0!!1!!0!!106!!7 |} {{Reflist|group=lower-alpha}}
==References== {{Reflist}}
==External links== *{{Soccerway|manuel-vicente-capasso/401403}}
{{Atlas F.C. squad}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Capasso, Manuel}} Category:1996 births Category:Footballers from Buenos Aires Category:Living people Category:Argentine people of Italian descent Category:Sportspeople of Italian descent Category:Men's association football defenders Category:Argentine men's footballers Category:Club Atlético Acassuso footballers Category:Defensa y Justicia footballers Category:Club Atlético Aldosivi footballers Category:Club Atlético Platense footballers Category:Newell's Old Boys footballers Category:Atlético Tucumán footballers Category:CR Vasco da Gama players Category:Club Olimpia footballers Category:Atlas F.C. footballers Category:Argentine Primera División players Category:Primera Nacional players Category:Primera B Metropolitana players Category:Campeonato Brasileiro Série A players Category:Paraguayan Primera División players Category:Argentine expatriate men's footballers Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Brazil Category:Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Brazil Category:Expatriate men's footballers in Paraguay Category:Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Paraguay Category:21st-century Argentine sportsmen