Diego Cagna
Personal information | |||
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Full name | Diego Cagna | ||
Date of birth | 19 April 1970 | ||
Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||
Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||
Position(s) | Midfielder | ||
Youth career | |||
Argentinos Juniors | |||
Senior career* | |||
Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
1988–1992 | Argentinos Juniors | 92 | (12) |
1992–1996 | Independiente | 117 | (13) |
1996–1999 | Boca Juniors | 115 | (9) |
2000–2002 | Villarreal | 77 | (3) |
2002 | Celaya | 17 | (1) |
2003–2005 | Boca Juniors | 82 | (7) |
International career | |||
1992–1999 | Argentina | 19 | (1) |
Managerial career | |||
2006–2009 | Tigre | ||
2010–2011 | Colo-Colo | ||
2011 | Newell's Old Boys | ||
2012–2013 | Estudiantes | ||
2013 | Tigre | ||
2016–2017[1] | San Martín (T) | ||
2018 | Atlético Bucaramanga | ||
2018–2019 | Instituto ACC | ||
*Club domestic league appearances and goals |
Medal record | ||
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Representing ![]() | ||
Men's Football | ||
Pan American Games | ||
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1995 Mar del Plata | Team Competition |
Diego Cagna (born 19 April 1970 in Buenos Aires) is an Argentine football coach and former player. He played as midfielder and retired in 2005.
Club 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 finished the Apertura 1999, he moved to Spanish Villarreal CF. He played 2 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 Villarreal, 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 Argentina 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 15 April 1998 friendly match against Israel in Jerusalem, which Argentina lost 2–1.[2]
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.[3]
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 disappointing, losing a 7-point advantage through several games until the end of the 2010 season, finishing 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.[4]
Career statistics
International
Argentina national team | ||
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Year | Apps | Goals |
1992 | 7 | 0 |
1993 | 1 | 0 |
1994 | 2 | 0 |
1995 | 0 | 0 |
1996 | 0 | 0 |
1997 | 1 | 0 |
1998 | 1 | 1 |
1999 | 7 | 0 |
Total | 19 | 1 |
Honours
Club
- Independiente
- Boca Juniors
- Argentine Primera División (4): Apertura 1998, Clausura 1999, Apertura 2003, Apertura 2005
- Copa Libertadores (1): 2003
- Copa Sudamericana (2): 2004, 2005
- Recopa Sudamericana (1): 2005
- Intercontinental Cup (1): 2003
International
- Argentina
References
- ^ San Martín despidió a Diego Cagna, eltucumano.com, 11 December 2017
- ^ NY Times article
- ^ La Razon article Archived 27 October 2007 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Presidente viajó a Buenos Aires para reunirse con Diego Cagna Archived 19 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Diego Cagna at National-Football-Teams.com
External links
- Diego Cagna at National-Football-Teams.com
- Managerial career in the Argentine Primera (in Spanish)
- Argentine Primera statistics (incomplete) (in Spanish)
- Diego Cagna at Footballdatabase
- Use dmy dates from July 2013
- 1970 births
- Living people
- Sportspeople from Buenos Aires
- Argentine people of Italian descent
- Argentine footballers
- Argentinos Juniors footballers
- Club Atlético Independiente footballers
- Boca Juniors footballers
- La Liga players
- Villarreal CF players
- Atlético Celaya footballers
- Argentina international footballers
- 1992 King Fahd Cup players
- 1999 Copa América players
- FIFA Confederations Cup-winning players
- Argentine football managers
- Club Atlético Tigre managers
- Colo-Colo managers
- Estudiantes de La Plata managers
- Argentine Primera División players
- Argentine expatriate footballers
- Expatriate football managers in Chile
- Argentine expatriate sportspeople in Spain
- Expatriate footballers in Spain
- Pan American Games gold medalists for Argentina
- Association football midfielders
- Pan American Games medalists in football
- Footballers at the 1995 Pan American Games