![]() Placente with Bordeaux in 2009 | ||||||||||||||
Personal information | ||||||||||||||
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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 | |||||||||||||
Medal record
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*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.
Born in Buenos Aires, Placente started playing professionally in 1996 with Argentinos Juniors, before moving to Argentine giant River Plate in 1997. He transferred to Bayer 04 Leverkusen in 2001, where he played until 2005 when his contract expired. Subsequently, he turned down an offer from English club Everton FC to join Celta de Vigo. While at Leverkusen he played in the 2002 UEFA Champions League Final.
In 2008, he returned to Argentina to play for San Lorenzo de Almagro. In the 2008 summer transfer window, he transferred to the French side of Bordeaux, and penned a two-year contract. [2] After finishing that contract, he returned to San Lorenzo on a free transfer. [3]
He played his first match with the Argentina national football team in 2001, and was capped 22 times.
Argentina national team [4] | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
2000 | 1 | 0 |
2001 | 2 | 0 |
2002 | 5 | 0 |
2003 | 6 | 0 |
2004 | 6 | 0 |
2005 | 2 | 0 |
Total | 22 | 0 |
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]
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