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Diego Cagna Personal information Full name Diego Sebastián Cagna Date of birth April 19, 1970 Place of birth Buenos Aires, Argentina Height 1.82 m (5 ft 11 1⁄2 in) Playing position Midfielder Youth career Argentinos Juniors Senior career* Years Team Apps† (Gls)† 1988–1992 Argentinos Juniors 90 (12) 1992–1996 Independiente 26 (3) 1996–1999 Boca Juniors 105 (9) 1999–2002 Villarreal 77 (3) 2002 Celaya 17 (1) 2003–2005 Boca Juniors 62 (7) National team 1992–1999 Argentina 19 (1) Teams managed 2006–2009 Tigre 2010–2011 Colo-Colo * Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 18:42, 20 December 2009 (UTC).
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ArgentinaMen's Football Pan American Games Gold 1995 Mar del Plata Team Competition Diego Sebastián Cagna (born 19 April 1970 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football coach. He was a footballer, playing in the midfield, he retired in 2005, and a few years later he became a coach.
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Career
His first professional first division match was in December 1988, with Argentinos Juniors. He transferred to Independiente at the beginning of 1992, where he played for 4 years.
Cagna then went on to join Boca Juniors from the Apertura 1996 until the end of 1999 when, at 29 years of age and after winning the Clausura 1999, he moved to Spanish Villarreal CF. He played 3 seasons with the Yellow Submarine, and after playing the Apertura 2002 with Mexican Atlético Celaya, he returned to Boca Juniors in 2003.
Diego Cagna, who was team captain with Independiente, Boca Juniors and Villareal, eventually becoming a reserve player behind Boca Juniors' promising youngsters, and retired in 2005. All in all, he played a total of 255 games for Boca, scoring 21 goals.
International career
With the Argentine national football team he won the Confederations Cup 1992, and participated in the Copa América 1999. His only goal for the national team was on April 15, 1998 friendly match against Israel in Jerusalem, which Argentina lost 2-1.[1]
Honours
Season Club Title 1992 ArgentinaConfederations Cup Clausura 1994 IndependientePrimera Division Argentina Apertura 1998 Boca JuniorsPrimera Division Argentina Clausura 1999 Boca JuniorsPrimera Division Argentina Apertura 2003 Boca JuniorsPrimera Division Argentina 2003 Boca JuniorsCopa Libertadores 2003 Boca JuniorsCopa Intercontinental 2004 Boca JuniorsCopa Sudamericana Apertura 2005 Boca JuniorsPrimera Division Argentina 2005 Boca JuniorsCopa Sudamericana 2005 Boca JuniorsRecopa Sudamericana Managerial career
In December 2006, he became Tigre's manager, taking the club to the first division in only one season. Tigre's first year in the major division was successful with Tigre finishing in 2nd place in the Apertura 2007 championship. This was Tigre's highest ever finish in the top division, gaining Cagna notoriety from fans and the sports press.[2]
In the Apertura 2008 championship Tigre finished joint top of the Primera División with Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo. Tigre had the best head-to-head record, San Lorenzo the best goal difference but Boca Juniors won the 3 way championship playoff on goal difference after the three teams once again finished level on points.
Cagna then guided Tigre to qualification to an international club competition for the first time in their history at the end of the 2008-09 season. Tigre appeared in the 2009 Copa Sudamericana, where they were eliminated in the first round by San Lorenzo.
Having taken Tigre into the last game of two championship seasons with the possibility of winning the championship and led them to international qualification for the first time in their history, his fortunes turned in the Apertura 2009 where Tigre finished bottom of the table with only 8 points from 19 games prompting his resignation on 14 December 2009 after over 3 years with the club. The former Chacarita coach replaces on 20 April 2010 Hugo Tocalli as Head Coach by Colo-Colo.
Unfortunately, Cagna's results with the twenty-nine time Chilean champions have been really disappointing since he lost a 7-point advantage by losing several games until the end of the 2010 season, finishing just as runners-up of that tournament (Universidad Católica became finally champions). Moreover, his international appearance in Copa Sudamericana meant another disappointment since "Los Albos" were kicked out in first round home/away leg versus Universitario de Sucre.
Even though fans' patience is running really thin from 2010 - and even more after a non-convincing start of 2011 season - Cagna is still having a place as Colo Colo's manager. Fans currently call him "Despreocupado" (unworried, carefree) because of his negligent attitude before, during and after every match. This nickname is closely linked to a very popular TV commercial from an international financial group in Chile.[3]
Personal life
Even though he played and captained Boca Juniors for several years, he declared that he has always been a River Plate supporter, and that he would be honoured to coach the team.[4]
References
External links
- Career details at National Football Teams
- (Spanish) Managerial career in the Argentine Primera
- (Spanish) Argentine Primera statistics (incomplete)
Argentina squad – 1992 King Fahd Cup Winners (1st Title) 
Argentina squad – 1999 Copa América Categories:- 1970 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Buenos Aires
- Argentine footballers
- Argentinos Juniors footballers
- Club Atlético Independiente footballers
- Boca Juniors footballers
- La Liga footballers
- Villarreal CF footballers
- Argentina international footballers
- 1992 King Fahd Cup players
- 1999 Copa América players
- FIFA Confederations Cup-winning players
- Argentine football managers
- Tigre managers
- Primera División Argentina players
- Argentine expatriate footballers
- Expatriate football managers in Chile
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
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