Claudio Borghi (soccer player)

Claudio Daniel Borghi Bidos (born September 28, 1964 in Castelar , Province of Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach. As a player, he became the soccer world champion in 1986 .

Claudio Borghi in 2006 as coach of Colo-Colo

Career

Club career

Claudio Borghi played for 15 different clubs during his career. Most successful was his engagement with the Argentine club Argentinos Juniors , for which he began his professional career in 1981 - a short time after Diego Maradona's departure - with the Boca Juniors . With the Juniors he played until 1987 and made 39 league games. Borghi achieved his greatest success with the Juniors in 1985 when they won the Copa Libertadores for the first and only time in the club's history . In the final they defeated the Colombian representative América de Cali on penalties in the play-off. Borghi converted his penalty to 3: 3 in the meantime and was on the field in all three final games. He went back to penalties with the Juniors a little later in the final of the World Cup against Juventus Turin , but here they lost to the Italian club with 2: 4 on penalties. Borghi wasn't a penalty taker here.

After two titles in the Argentine Primera División , the Libertadores victory and the subsequent win of the Copa Interamericana , Borghi left the Argentinos Juniors in 1987 and moved to Europe to AC Milan , for which he did not play a single league game, was awarded to FC Como and was sold to Neuchâtel Xamax after the loan ended . Here, too, the midfielder could not prevail and moved back to Argentina in 1988 to River Plate in Buenos Aires . Now began a time for Borghi in which he was under contract with eleven different clubs within eleven years. Among other things, he played in Chile for Colo-Colo , for Flamengo from Rio de Janeiro and Argentina's record champion in the Copa Libertadores, Independiente Avellaneda . He did not achieve major successes, apart from winning the Cup with Flamengo in 1990 and winning the Copa Interamericana and the Recopa Sudamericana with Colo-Colo in 1992. From 1998 to 1999 Borghi played for the Chilean first division club Santiago Wanderers and ended his career in 1999 at the age of 35.

National team

In 1985 and 1986 Claudio Borghi made nine international matches in the Argentine national football team . He was appointed to the South American squad for the 1986 World Cup in Mexico by national coach Carlos Bilardo . At the World Championships he was used in two preliminary round matches against Italy (1: 1) and Bulgaria (2: 0) before he was no longer considered by Bilardo. He also did not complete these two preliminary round games for the full playing time, he was exchanged for Héctor Enrique and Julio Olarticoechea . His team, however, reached the final at the World Cup, where they won 3-2 against Germany in the Aztec Stadium in Mexico City , thus securing the second world title for Argentina.

Coaching career

After the end of his active football career, Borghi became a coach. His first job as a trainer was in Chile in 2004 at Audax Italiano . After a year in Chile's Primera División , he was signed by CSD Colo-Colo , for whom he had once played as a player. With the Chilean record champions, he won the Chilean football championship four times in a row and was voted Chile's coach of the year once during this time. Borghi was Colo-Colo's trainer until 2008 before moving to CA Independiente in Argentina . After about four months, he was released after losing 1-0 to Huracán . From 2009 to 2010 he was responsible for the Argentinos Juniors , which he led in the Clausura 2010 for the first championship in 25 years. In the first year after the championship they finished last in the Primera División, although they did not have to go to Primera B due to a regulation according to which the results of the last few years decide on relegation , but Borghi left the Juniors after the Apertura 2010. He was then briefly coach of Boca Juniors , but was dismissed there after a 0-1 defeat in Superclásico against CA River Plate . On February 24, 2011, Borghi signed a contract with the Chilean national football team until 2014, taking over from Marcelo Bielsa . His first major tournament with Chile was the 2011 Copa America in Argentina, where the team was eliminated in the quarter-finals against Venezuela . After four wins in the first ten games in qualifying for the 2014 World Cup and after a 1: 3 defeat in a friendly against Serbia , the fifth defeat in a row, Borghi was born on 14 November 2012 still on the square in St. Gallen dismissed .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Focus: Chile dismisses coach after defeat in a friendly

Web links

• national-football-teams.com Profile of the player
• Claudio Borghi in the database of FIFA (English)
• Player biography
• Information about the player