Diego Placente

Diego Placente
	Placente with Bordeaux in 2009
Personal information
Full name	Diego Rodolfo Placente
Date of birth	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 U17 (manager)
Senior career*
Years	Team
1995–1997	Argentinos Juniors
1997–2001	River Plate
2001–2005	Bayer Leverkusen
2005–2007	Celta Vigo
2008	San Lorenzo
2008–2010	Bordeaux
2010–2011	San Lorenzo
2011–2012	Nacional
2012–2013	Argentinos Juniors
Total
International career
1997	Argentina U20
2000–2005	Argentina
Managerial career
2021–present	Argentina U17
Medal record
Representing Argentina (as manager)
South American U-17 Championship
	*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.

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]
Year	Apps	Goals
2000	1	0
2001	2	0
2002	5	0
2003	6	0
2004	6	0
2005	2	0
Total	22	0

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

Primera B Nacional: 1996–97

River Plate

Bayer Leverkusen

DFB-Pokal Runner-up: 2001–02
UEFA Champions League Runner-up: 2001–02

Bordeaux

Nacional

Uruguayan Primera División: 2012

International

Argentina U-20

Argentina

Copa América: Runner-up 2004
FIFA Confederations Cup: Runner-up 2005

References

^ "Placente es un cagón". Olé. 22 May 2013. Archived from the original on 23 February 2014. Retrieved 22 May 2013.
^ "Bordeaux bag Placente". Sky Sports. 28 July 2008. Retrieved 1 September 2008.
^ "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.
^ Diego Placente at National-Football-Teams.com
^ 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.