Diego Placente
|
Bordeaux in 2009 | |||
| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Diego Rodolfo Placente | ||
| Date of birth | 24 April 1977 | ||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in) | ||
| Position(s) | Left-back | ||
| Team information | |||
Current team | Argentina U17 (manager) | ||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1997 | Argentinos Juniors | 36 | (0) |
| 1997–2001 | River Plate | 110 | (5) |
| 2001–2005 | Bayer Leverkusen | 123 | (3) |
| 2005–2007 |
Celta Vigo | 59 | (0) |
| 2008 | San Lorenzo | 14 | (0) |
| 2008–2010 |
Bordeaux | 9 | (0) |
| 2010–2011 | San Lorenzo | 16 | (0) |
| 2011–2012 | Nacional | 11 | (0) |
| 2012–2013[1] | Argentinos Juniors | 16 | (1) |
| Total | 394 | (9) | |
| International career | |||
| 1997 | Argentina U20 | 7 | (1) |
| 2000–2005 | Argentina | 22 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2021–present | Argentina U17 | ||
| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Diego Rodolfo Placente (born 24 April 1977) is an Argentine manager and former footballer who played as a left-back. He is the current manager of the Argentina U17 national team.
Club career
Born in
2002 UEFA Champions League Final
.
In 2008, he returned to Argentina to play for
Bordeaux, and penned a two-year contract.[2] After finishing that contract, he returned to San Lorenzo on a free transfer.[3]
International career
He played his first match with the Argentina national football team in 2001, and was capped 22 times.
Career statistics
International
| Argentina national team[4] | ||
|---|---|---|
| Year | Apps | Goals |
| 2000 | 1 | 0 |
| 2001 | 2 | 0 |
| 2002 | 5 | 0 |
| 2003 | 6 | 0 |
| 2004 | 6 | 0 |
| 2005 | 2 | 0 |
| Total | 22 | 0 |
Personal life
Placente is married and his wife is
Jewish. Because of this, he was subject of transfer talk to Israeli club Maccabi Tel Aviv. It was his wife though who was uninterested in moving to Israel, and the transfer never took place.[5]
Honours
Club
- River Plate
- Bayer Leverkusen
- DFB-Pokal Runner-up: 2001–02
- UEFA Champions League Runner-up: 2001–02
- Bordeaux
- Nacional
International
- Argentina U-20
- South American Youth Championship: 1997
- FIFA U-20 World Cup: 1997
- Argentina
- Copa América: Runner-up 2004
- FIFA Confederations Cup: Runner-up 2005
References
- ^ "Placente es un cagón". Olé. 22 May 2013. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
- ^ "Bordeaux bag Placente". Sky Sports. 28 July 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
- ^ "Diego Placente vuelve a San Lorenzo". Cancha Llena (in Spanish). 18 July 2010. Archived from the original on 20 July 2010. Retrieved 18 July 2010.
- ^ Diego Placente at National-Football-Teams.com
- Sport 5. Archived from the originalon 13 June 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
External links
- Official website
- Diego Placente at National-Football-Teams.com
- Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (in Spanish)
- Diego Placente at Soccerbase
- Leverkusen who's who (in German)
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