Paulo Dybala

Paulo Exequiel Dybala (born 15 November 1993) is an Argentine professional footballer who plays as a forward for Serie A club Juventus and the Argentina national team.

Nicknamed "La Joya" ("The Jewel"),[4] Dybala began his senior club career in 2011 playing for Instituto de Córdoba, before signing for Palermo in 2012, at age 18, where he won a Serie B title. In 2015, Dybala signed for Juventus and won five league titles and four Coppas Italia. He was also voted Serie A Most Valuable Player once, was also included in the Serie A Team of the Year four times, and ranks as Juventus' eleventh-highest all-time goalscorer.

Dybala made his senior international debut for Argentina in 2015 at age 21, and has since earned 30 caps, including appearing at the 2018 FIFA World Cup and the 2019 Copa América. In the latter, he scored the winning goal to help his nation finish in third-place.

Dybala was born in Laguna Larga, Córdoba, Argentina.[5] His grandfather, Bolesław Dybała, was from the village of Kraśniów in Poland; he fled from his country of birth to Argentina during World War II.[6][7] Some of his grandfather's family moved to Canada.[8] Dybala's family also has partial Italian origins through his maternal great-grandmother, whose surname was Da Messa, from the Province of Naples.[6][9][10][11]