Lucas Scaglia (born 6 May 1987) is an Argentine football coach and former footballer who played as a

midfielder In the sport of association football, a midfielder takes an Glossary of association football terms#O, outfield position primarily in the middle of the pitch. Midfielders may play an exclusively defensive role, breaking up attacks, and are in t ...

. He grew up with

Lionel Messi Lionel Andrés "Leo" Messi (; born 24 June 1987) is an Argentine professional Association football, footballer who plays as a forward (association football), forward for and Captain (association football), captains both Major League Soccer ...

and today is his cousin-in-law.

Career

Scaglia signed for

North American Soccer League The North American Soccer League (NASL) was the top-level major professional soccer league in the United States and Canada that operated from 1968 to 1984. It is considered the first soccer league to be successful on a national scale in the ...

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Jacksonville Armada Jacksonville Armada FC is an American professional soccer team based in Jacksonville, Florida. They were founded in 2013 as an expansion franchise in the North American Soccer League (NASL), the second tier of American soccer, and played until ...

on 30 January 2015, leaving the club at the end of the 2016 season. In 2017, Scaglia joined

California United FC II California United Strikers FC is an American professional soccer club based in Orange County, California. History The club was founded by Bronwyn & Pete Capriotti and Michael Collins, who have had connections to the adult amateur United Premie ...

where he was a key member of the team which captured both the 2017 Spring & Fall

United Premier Soccer League The United Premier Soccer League (UPSL) is an American for-profit soccer league that was founded in Santa Ana in Southern California, with teams in regionalized conferences throughout the United States, and recently Canada and Mexico. The leagu ...

National Championships. On 9 January 2019, Scaglia joined

USL Championship The USL Championship (USLC) is a men's professional association football, soccer league in the second tier of the United States soccer league system#Men's leagues, United States league system. It is organized by the United Soccer League (USL) a ...

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Las Vegas Lights Las Vegas Lights FC is an American professional soccer team based in Las Vegas, Nevada, that plays in the USL Championship. The team made its debut in 2018 and plays its home games at Cashman Field. The team employs neon imagery in its crest a ...

Career statistics

Club

Personal life

Scaglia is a childhood friend of

. It was in their youth that Messi met Scaglia's cousin Antonela Roccuzzo who he would eventually marry in 2017.

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* 1987 births Living people Men's association football midfielders Argentine men's footballers Argentine sportspeople of Italian descent Newell's Old Boys footballers Argentine Primera División players PAS Giannina F.C. players Panserraikos F.C. players Football League (Greece) players Club Bolívar players Once Caldas footballers Bolivian Primera División players Deportivo Cali footballers HNK Rijeka players HNK Rijeka II players Croatian Football League players Jacksonville Armada FC players North American Soccer League (2011–2017) players Las Vegas Lights FC players Footballers from Rosario, Santa Fe 21st-century Argentine sportsmen {{Argentina-footy-bio-stub