Mariano Sebastián Trípodi (born 3 July 1987) is an Argentine

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who plays for

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as a striker.

Club career

Born in

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, Trípodi started his career playing for the famous

Boca Juniors Club Atlético Boca Juniors () is an Argentine sports club headquartered in La Boca, a neighbourhood of Buenos Aires. The club is mostly known for its professional football team which, since its promotion in 1913, has always played in the A ...

academy which has a habit of producing star players. Clubs from across the continent started to become aware of Tripodi's goalscoring for the Boca Juniors U18s team, scoring 31 times in his first season. He was then quickly taken on by

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, of Germany, where he played one match, against

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, in which he scored his only goal for the club, and then was demoted to Köln II. He then returned to Argentina, where he joined

San Martín de San Juan Club Atlético San Martín, mostly known as San Martín de San Juan, is an Argentine football club from the city of San Juan. The team currently plays in the Argentine Primera B Nacional, the second division of the Argentine football league syste ...

, playing four matches for the club. On February 7, 2008, he was signed by

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of Brazil, and on February 21, 2008, Trípodi played his first match as a Santos player when his club beat Guarani 3–1. On August 22, 2008, he was loaned by Santos to Vitória, and on August 30, 2008, he played his first match as a Vitória player, when his club and

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drew 0-0. Trípodi joined

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on March 5, 2009. Tripodi is regularly scouted and it was no surprise that it was announced that he had agreed to a ten-day trial at

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on August 5, 2009, arriving in England on August 6, 2009. He played and scored the opening goal on August 12, 2009, in a behind closed doors game against a Newcastle United XI, which Leeds won 5–1. After a half year with

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in Brazil, he returned in June 2010 to Argentina and signed a one-year contract for

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