Diego Latorre

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Diego Latorre
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Latorre in 2015
Personal information
Full name Diego Fernando Latorre
Date of birth (1969-08-04) 4 August 1969 (age 55)
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.70 m (5 ft 7 in) [1]
Position(s) Striker [1]
Midfielder
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(Gls)
1987–1992 Boca Juniors 119 (52)
1992–1993 Fiorentina 2 (0)
1993–1995 Tenerife 69 (15)
1995–1996 Salamanca 22 (1)
1996–1998 Boca Juniors 67 (23)
1998–1999 Racing Club 29 (10)
1999–2000 Cruz Azul 18 (6)
2000 Rosario Central 14 (2)
2000–2001 Chacarita Juniors 9 (1)
2001–2003 Club Celaya 68 (27)
2003 Comunicaciones 30 (16)
2003–2004 Dorados de Sinaloa 10 (7)
2004–2005 Comunicaciones 15 (5)
2005–2006 Alacranes de Durango 13 (0)
International career
1991 Argentina 6 (1)
Medal record
Men's Football
Representing Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina
Copa América
Winner 1991 Chile
*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Diego Fernando Latorre (born 4 August 1969) is an Argentine former professional footballer who played as a striker or as an offensive midfielder.

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Career

Latorre was born in Buenos Aires. He made his professional debut for Boca Juniors on 18 October 1987 against Platense scoring his first goal at the same match. He won the 1991 Argentine league with Boca Juniors. His good performance took him to play with the Argentina national football team scoring his first goal in a Copa America match against Peru. [2]

In 1992, he joined Fiorentina with Gabriel Batistuta after the pair helped Argentina to win the Copa America in 1991. While Batistuta eventually became one of Fiorentina's all-time greats, Latorre only made two appearances with the club, and quickly left for Tenerife in La Liga. He made 67 appearances 15 goals with the Spanish club. He moved to Salamanca in 1995, but only spent a single season there. He returned to Boca Juniors in 1996. He also played for Racing Club de Avellaneda and Rosario Central after returning from Europe. He later played in Mexico and Guatemala before retiring in 2005. [2]

After retirement

Latorre joined Fox Sports Latin America as a sportscaster, and has worked alongside Juan Manuel "Bambino" Pons, Mariano Closs and Sebastián "El Pollo" Vignolo as a football match analyst (co-commentator) for Fox Sports Latin America (South Cone).

After Disney acquired Fox Sports Latin America (South Cone) and integrated its operation with Disney-owned ESPN Sur in 2020, Latorre, along with many other Fox Sports Latin America (South Cone) talent including Closs, Pons and Vignolo, moved to ESPN Sur, where he is currently the #1 football match analyst (co-commentator) for the men's Argentine Liga Profesional del Fútbol, the men's CONMEBOL Libertadores and the men's UEFA Champions League.

Honours

Boca Juniors [2]

Comunicaciones

Dorados de Sinaloa

Argentina [3]

Individual

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References

  1. 1 2 "Diego Latorre". worldfootball.net. Retrieved 9 March 2019.
  2. 1 2 3 "What became of… Diego Latorre". La Liga. 24 July 2014. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  3. ↑ "Diego Latorre". Eurosport. Archived from the original on 19 November 2015. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
  4. ↑ Emmanuel Castro Serna (9 July 2009). "Argentina - List of Topscorers". RSSSF . Archived from the original on 8 June 2009. Retrieved 17 November 2015.
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