Leandro Paredes was born on 29 June 1994 in San Justo, Buenos Aires province, Argentina. He came through the youth setup of Boca Juniors and debuted for the senior side in 2011 before moving to Chievo Verona in Italy in 2014. From there his European career took shape through spells at Roma — where he spent two loan seasons — and then Empoli before PSG signed him permanently.
In January 2019 Paris Saint-Germain signed him from Zenit Saint Petersburg for around €40 million. At PSG he was a central figure in the star-studded midfield for four seasons, winning multiple Ligue 1 titles and the 2020 UEFA Champions League final runner-up, where PSG lost to Bayern Munich. He was part of the most financially powerful club era in French football history.
In summer 2022 he joined Juventus on loan, then permanently, providing an established Champions League midfield presence and becoming a key voice in the Juventus dressing room. In 2024 he returned to Boca Juniors — the club where he had begun his senior career — where he became one of the most high-profile senior Argentine footballers to return to the domestic game in recent years.
For Argentina he debuted in 2014 and has been one of the most important holding midfielders in the national team for a decade. He was part of the 2021 Copa América-winning squad and the 2022 World Cup-winning squad in Qatar. His deep-lying playmaker role — distributing from deep, breaking opposition lines with vertical passes and winning the ball back in the middle of the park — was central to Argentina's World Cup-winning structure.
Standing 1.84 m, Paredes is a right-footed holding midfielder whose ability to dictate tempo, read opposition press patterns and execute the precise vertical pass has made him one of the defining Argentine midfielders of his generation. He is frequently compared to Fernando Redondo for his technical authority in the deep midfield position.