Matías Cahais

Matías Cahais

Personal information
Full name	Matías Cahais
Date of birth	December 24, 1987 (1987-12-24) (age 23)
Place of birth	Morón, Argentina
Height	1.85 m (6 ft 1 in)
Playing position	Centre back / Left back
Club information
Current club	Racing Club
Number	6
Senior career*
Years	Team	Apps†	(Gls)†
2005–2008	Boca Juniors	12	(1)
2008–2010	Groningen	11	(1)
2009	→ Gimnasia de Jujuy (loan)	15	(1)
2009–2010	→ Racing Club (loan)	33	(1)
2010–	Racing Club	36	(1)
National team
2007	Argentina U20
* Senior club appearances and goals counted for the domestic league only and correct as of 03:01, 20 August 2011 (UTC). † Appearances (Goals).

Matías Cahais (born 24 December 1987 in Morón, Buenos Aires, Argentina) is an Argentine football central defender. He plays for Racing Club.

Club career

Cahais is a product of the Boca Juniors youth team, he made his debut for the first team at the age of 17 on 26 June 2005 in a 0-0 draw with Quilmes Atlético Club.

3 July 2005, Cahais scored his first goal for Boca in a game against Almagro, but it is not recorded as an official goal, as the game was abandoned and the game was awarded to Almagro with a default score of 2-0.

After some offers from European clubs, 21 January 2008, Cahais signed a contract for the Dutch club FC Groningen, initially for a one-year-and-a-half deal, with the possibility of a definitive acquisition for a €2 million price, after the first period. During his presentation ceremony on Groningen, the defender said that, even with the bigger offer from Real Madrid, he opted for signing for a Dutch team because he wanted to make his European career "step for step", and he felt that an Eredivisie club was the right choice to do, as the Dutch league was also the start of the European career of players like Ronaldo, Romário and his compatriot Julio Cruz.^[1]

International career

Cahais has represented the Argentina national football team at Under-17 and Under-20 levels. He made 20 appearances for the U-17 team, scoring 4 goals. In 2007 he was selected to play for Argentina at the South American Youth Championship in Paraguay where he scored 2 goals. He also represented the U-20 team at the 2007 FIFA U-20 World Cup.

Honours

Season	Club	Title
2006	Boca Juniors	Recopa Sudamericana
2007	Boca Juniors	Copa Libertadores
2007	Argentina Under-20	FIFA U-20 World Cup

References

1. ^ "'Real Madrid had eerste optie, Groningen beste keus'". VI.nl. http://www.vi.nl/NieuwsItem/RealMadridHadEersteOptie,GroningenBesteKeus.htm. Retrieved 2008-01-21. 

External links

• Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI (Spanish)
• Statistics at Guardian StatsCentre

Persondata
Name	Cahais, Matias
Alternative names
Short description
Date of birth	24 December 1987
Place of birth	Morón, Argentina
Date of death
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