Diego Placente

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Diego Placente
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Placente with Bordeaux in 2009
Personal information
Full name Diego Rodolfo Placente
Date of birth (1977-04-24) 24 April 1977 (age 47)
Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height 1.76 m (5 ft 9 in)
Position(s) Left-back
Team information
Current team
 Argentina U20 (manager)
Senior career*
YearsTeamApps(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)
Total394(9)
International career
1997 Argentina U20 7 (1)
2000–2005 Argentina 22 (0)
Managerial career
2014–2015 Argentinos Juniors (assistant)
2017–2024 Argentina U15 (assistant)
2023–2024 Argentina U17
2025– Argentina U20
Medal record
Representing Flag of Argentina.svg  Argentina (as manager)
South American U-17 Championship
Bronze medal icon.svg 2023 Ecuador
*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 U20 national team.

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Club career

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]

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]
YearAppsGoals
200010
200120
200250
200360
200460
200520
Total220

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

Argentinos Juniors
River Plate
Bayer Leverkusen
Bordeaux
Nacional

International

Argentina U-20
Argentina

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References

  1. ↑ "Placente es un cagón". Olé. 22 May 2013. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
  2. ↑ "Bordeaux bag Placente". Sky Sports. 28 July 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
  3. ↑ "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.
  4. ↑ Diego Placente at National-Football-Teams.com
  5. ↑ Bar Dayan, Shirley (12 June 2008). מכבי ת"א תציע 250 אלף יורו על פלאסנטה (in Hebrew). Sport 5. Archived from the original on 13 June 2008. Retrieved 13 July 2008.
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