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Lucas Pusineri
Personal information
Full name	Lucas Andrés Pusineri Bignone
Date of birth	16 July 1976 (age 48)
Place of birth	Buenos Aires, Argentina
Height	1.79 m (5 ft 10+1⁄2 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Senior career*
Years	Team
1997–1999	Almagro
1999–2002	San Lorenzo
2002–2003	Independiente
2003–2004	Saturn Ramenskoye
2004–2005	Independiente
2006	River Plate
2007–2010	Independiente
2010–2011	Platense
Managerial career
2018	Cúcuta Deportivo
2019	Deportivo Cali
2020–2021	Independiente
2022–2023	Atlético Tucumán
2023	Tigre
	*Club domestic league appearances and goals

Lucas Andrés Pusineri Bignone (born 16 July 1976) is an Argentine football manager and former player.

A midfielder, Pusineri began his career with Almagro in 1997, and enjoyed successful spells at San Lorenzo and Independiente. He retired with Platense in 2011, and subsequently became a manager.

Footballing career

Pusineri started his professional football career in 1998 with a local club in Almagro, he had an impressive season of scoring 11 goals in 29 games, he was quickly signed by San Lorenzo where he helped the club to win the Clausura 2001 championship.

During his three years with Club Atletico San Lorenzo de Almagro, Pusineri made 61 appearances and scored 11 goals. In 2002, Pusineri was snapped up by Independiente, where he played a part in their championship season in Apertura 2002. In 2003, he moved to Russian Premier League side FC Saturn. After failing to make any impact on European soil, Pusineri decided to move back to Independiente in season 2004/2005.

In 2006, Pusineri was signed by Daniel Passarella, who took over from Reinaldo Merlo as the manager of River Plate but returned once again to Independiente in 2007.

Manager career

During the 2013-14 Championship, Pusineri worked with Adrián Domenech as technical assistant of Claudio Borghi for Argentinos Juniors.

Pusineri started his managerial career with Cúcuta Deportivo of the Primera B of Colombia as head coach.^[1]

Honours

San Lorenzo

Primera División (1): 2001 Clausura
Copa Mercosur (1): 2001

Independiente

Primera División (1): 2002 Apertura

Cúcuta Deportivo

Categoría Primera B (1): 2018

References

^ Lucas Pusineri: “No pido paciencia, sino que se entienda la realidad de este plantel” clarin.com

External links

Lucas Pusineri at BDFA (in Spanish)
Argentine Primera statistics at Fútbol XXI^[usurped] (in Spanish)

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