Leandro Desábato
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Leandro Desábato[1] | ||
Date of birth | [1] | 24 January 1979||
Place of birth | Cafferata, Santa Fe, Argentina | ||
Height | 1.86 m (6 ft 1 in)[1] | ||
Position(s) | Centre back | ||
Team information | |||
Current team | Almagro (manager) | ||
Youth career | |||
Estudiantes LP | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1997–2018 | Estudiantes LP | 407 | (20) |
2001–2002 | → Olimpo (loan) | 32 | (1) |
2002–2006 | → Quilmes (loan) | 101 | (5) |
2006–2007 | → Argentinos Juniors (loan) | 34 | (4) |
International career | |||
2011–2012 | Argentina | 5 | (0) |
Managerial career | |||
2020 | Estudiantes LP (caretaker) | ||
2020 | Estudiantes LP | ||
2023– | Almagro | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Leandro Desábato (born 24 January 1979), nicknamed Chavo, is an Argentine football manager and former player. He is the manager of Almagro.
Club career
Desábato began his professional career in 1997 playing for
In a 2005 Copa Libertadores match, Desábato allegedly racially insulted São Paulo's player Grafite. Desábato was arrested after the match.[2] Following his night in jail, Desábato was defended by columnist and former Brazilian international footballer Tostão who stated that the insults were not racist, simply the kind of provocation that has always existed in football.[3]
Desábato left Quilmes in 2006 to join Argentinos Juniors and after a successful season with the club he returned to Estudiantes de La Plata. During the second half of 2008, he was a regular first team player for Estudiantes in their Copa Sudamericana campaign, where they reached the final.
Desábato was a key figure in Estudiantes'
In 2009 Desábato was chosen in a traditional journalist poll conducted by El País in the South American Team of the Year.
Personal life
Desábato's cousins,
Honours
- Olimpo
- Primera B Nacional: 2001–02
- Estudiantes
References
- ^ a b c "FIFA Club World Cup UAE 2009 presented by Toyota: List of Players" (PDF). FIFA. 9 December 2009. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on 2 September 2012.
- ^ Lukor article (in Spanish) Archived 2007-12-22 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Terra deportes article (in Spanish)
- ^ "Anuario Vélez Sarsfield VAVEL 2017: Leandro Desábato, un futbolista de familia". Vavel. 29 December 2017. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
External links
- Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (in Spanish)
- Leandro Desábato at ESPN FC