Daniel Montenegro

Daniel Montenegro
Daniel Montenegro 2015
Personnel
Surname	Daniel Gastón Montenegro
birthday	December 28, 1979
place of birth	Buenos Aires ,  Argentina
size	172 cm
position	attacking midfielder
Men's
Years	station	Games (goals) 1
1997-1999	CA Huracan	79 (19)
1999	CA Independiente	19 0(7)
2000	Olympique Marseille B	2 0(2)
2000-2002	Olympique Marseille	6 0(1)
2000-2001	→  Real Saragossa  (loan)	28 0(2)
2001	→  CA Osasuna  (loan)	10 0(0)
2002	→ CA Huracán (loan)	18 (11)
2002-2003	CA Independiente	37 0(7)
2003-2004	CA River Plate	29 0(5)
2004-2005	Saturn Ramenskoye	19 0(1)
2005-2006	CA River Plate	28 0(6)
2006-2009	CA Independiente	104 (41)
2009–2012	Club America	128 (24)
2013-2014	Independiente	77 (14)
2015-2018	CA Huracan	68 0(5)
National team
Years	selection	Games (goals) 2
	Argentina U-19
	Argentina U-20
2007–	Argentina	6 0(0)
1 Only league games are given. Status: 2019 2 As of October 10, 2009

Daniel Gastón Montenegro (born December 28, 1979 in Buenos Aires ) is a former Argentine football player who also has an Italian passport. He played mainly as an attacking midfielder .

In his homeland, Montenegro is also known by his nickname Rolfi . His older brother Ariel is also an active professional football player.

Career

Career start at home

Montenegro began his active career as a professional football player in 1997 in his native Argentina with CA Huracán . There he made his professional debut on April 7, 1997 in the 3-1 victory over CA Vélez Sársfield and completed 79 league games and scored 19 goals until relegation to the Primera B Nacional , the second highest division in the country. In 1999 he then moved to league rivals CA Independiente , for whom he met seven times in 19 games. Hailed as a great offensive talent in Argentina, ever larger international clubs took notice of the young, strong midfielder.

The time at Olympique Marseille

In the same year when he moved to Independiente, Montenegro transferred one more time. This time it went to France to Olympique Marseille in Ligue 1 . On November 7, 1999, shortly after signing his contract, he made his team debut, which lasted only two minutes , in a 1-1 home draw against AS Monaco . Three days later he played the entire match in another 1-1 draw against FC Nantes . On December 18, 1999, his fifth appearance in the Olympique dress, he scored his first and only competitive goal for the team in the 22nd minute. In the same match, Montenegro was substituted for Kaba Diawara in the 54th minute . In the 2000/01 season was followed by another 24-minute short use.

3 positions as a loan player

After six league games and one goal, he was awarded by the French to Real Saragossa in the Spanish Primera División . In Saragossa he won the cup straight away in 2000/01 (3-1 final win over Celta Vigo ) and had two goals in 28 championship appearances. Despite a 17th of 20 league places, the team was qualified for the first round of the 2001/02 UEFA Cup at the end of the season due to the cup victory , which they won sovereignly with a total score of 5: 1 over the Danish Silkeborg IF without Montenegro participation .

Before that, in 2001 Montenegro had already switched to CA Osasuna on loan . At the club based in Pamplona , he completed ten league games for the professional team in the Primera División before he was awarded a second time. This time he went back to his homeland to his former club CA Huracán, where he scored eleven times in 18 games. Thus Rolfi was one of the main responsible for the fourth place in the final table of the Torneo Clausura 2002, after the team in the Torneo Apertura only reached the 19th and penultimate place in the league.

Together with Ernesto Farías and Josemir Lujambio , he shared third place in the goalscorer list at the end of the season.

Long return to Argentina

In 2002, Montenegro signed a 1-year contract with the club, for which he was also briefly active in 1999, the CA Independiente. He and the team won the Torneo Apertura in 2002 alongside Lucho González, three points ahead of their pursuers CA Boca Juniors . But already in 2003 another change in Rolfi should become noticeable. So it happened that in the same year, after 37 league games and seven goals, he moved to the CA River Plate , with which he initially only reached eighth of 20 places in the Torneo Apertura.

In the Torneo Clausura, however, the performance of the entire team increased, with the team celebrating the championship title at the end of the season with four points ahead of the Boca Juniors. After five goals from 29 championship appearances, Montenegro transferred one more time in 2004.

Stopover in Russia and return home

This time his trip to Russia went to Saturn Ramenskoye in the Premjer League . In the team, however, Rolfi could not establish himself well and left the club in 2005 after 19 league games and one goal for home.

Once there, he signed a contract with River Plate, for which he had already been active two years earlier. He stayed with the team during the Torneo Apertura and the Torneo Clausura mostly in the upper quarter of the table and until the end never really had a chance of winning the championship. After only one year, he left the club from Núñez , a district of the capital Buenos Aires, to sign a promising contract with CA Independiente shortly afterwards, for which he had already played a large number of games in the past.

In the Torneo Apertura 2006 still in the top quarter of the table, the team in the Torneo Clausura 2007 could no longer build on the performances of the previous season and was only eleventh in the table. It was almost the other way around in the Torneo Apertura 2007 and the Torneo Clausura 2008, whereby Rolfi and the team had previously reached ninth place and thus a place in the middle of the table and then almost slipped into the top quarter of the table with sixth place.

In terms of sport, however, the Torneo Apertura 2008 and the subsequent Torneo Clausura 2009 went badly. A 16th place was the highest of emotions at the end of the season.

These performances were also the reason for Montenegro's resignation after more than 104 completed games for the team, in which he scored 41 goals.

New start in Mexico

In July 2009, Montenegro signed a contract in Mexico with Club America , which has its game operations in the country's top division, the Primera División . To date, Montenegro has played ten league games for the Mexican club and scored three goals.

International

Montenegro has already gained international experience with the U-20 national team of its home country Argentina. With the team he won the Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 (in German: U-20 South American Championship) in 1999 in front of a home crowd after a final victory over the Uruguayan junior selection.

In the same year he also represented his home country at the junior soccer world championship , where he made it to the round of 16 with the team , but was eliminated there on April 15 with 1: 4 against Mexico. Before that, they were already 1-0 up.

Montenegro made his senior national team debut on April 18, 2007 in a game against Chile . The following year he was called up late for the friendly against Scotland in the national team. During the game, Rolfi was then used under coach Diego Maradona . So far, he has been used in seven senior national team games, but has so far not scored a goal.

successes

Club successes

• Copa del Rey : 2001 (with Real Saragossa)
• Apertura of the Argentine Primera División: 2002 (with CA Independiente)
• Clausura of the Argentine Primera División: 2004 (with CA River Plate)

National team successes

• Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 : 1999

Web links

• Daniel Montenegro in the database of weltfussball.de
• Mission statistics in the Argentine Primera División
• Mission statistics in the French Ligue 1
• Bet statistics in the Spanish Primera División
• Player profile on the Irish Times homepage

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Independiente Star Daniel Montenegro Set For Club America Move (English), accessed October 10, 2009
2. ↑ Rolfi gets a call up! (English), accessed October 10, 2009