Diego Alonso

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Diego Alonso
Personnel
Surname Diego Martín Alonso López
birthday April 16, 1975
place of birth MontevideoUruguay
size 183 cm
position Center Forward
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1993-1999 Bella Vista
1999-2000 Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata 32 (17)
2000-2001 Valencia CF 20 0(2)
2001-2002 Atlético Madrid 38 (22)
2002-2003 Racing Santander 22 0(1)
2003-2004 Málaga CF 23 0(6)
2004-2005 UNAM Pumas 27 (12)
2005-2006 Real Murcia 24 0(2)
2006 Nacional Montevideo 7 0(3)
2007 Shanghai Shenhua 13 0(7)
2007-2009 Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata 36 0(5)
2009-2011 Peñarol Montevideo 43 (17)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
1999-2001 Uruguay 7 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2011–2012 Bella Vista
2012-2013 Club Guaraní
2013 Peñarol Montevideo
2014 Club Olimpia
2014-2018 CF Pachuca
2020– Inter Miami
1 Only league games are given.

Diego Alonso (born April 16, 1975 in Montevideo ) is a former Uruguayan soccer player on the position of center forward and current soccer coach. He has been the head coach of Inter Miami since January 2020 .

career

player

Alonso spent his first professional years at his "hometown club" Club Atlético Bella Vista , with whom he won the 1997 Segunda División championship and thus enabled the 1990 champions to return to the Primera División .

About the Argentine first division club Gimnasia y Esgrima La Plata , with which he was under contract in the 1999/00 season, he made the jump to Spain , where he played for various clubs and, among other things, the 2001/02 season with Atlético Madrid the title the Segunda División won. With his 22 goals, which made him the top scorer this season, Alonso was instrumental in this success of the Rojiblancos .

After four years in Spain, Alonso moved to the UNAM Pumas in Mexico , with whom he won the Mexican football championship in his first season, the Apertura 2004 .

He won another championship title in the top division of a country in the 2009/10 season in his home country with Club Atlético Peñarol and, at the end of his active career, reached the finals of the Copa Libertadores in the following season in 2011 , in which he only played one came about ten minutes against the eventual winner FC Santos .

Trainer

Immediately after his active career, Alonso began a coaching activity and initially looked after Bella Vista, which was already his first station as a player. He then coached Club Guaraní , his former club Peñarol and Club Olimpia before signing a contract with the Mexican first division club CF Pachuca at the end of 2014 , with which he won the Mexican championship title in the 2016 Clausura .

For season 2020 Alonso became the first head coach of the new MLS - franchises Inter Miami .

successes

As a player

As a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. Inter Miami CF Selects Diego Alonso as First-Ever Head Coach in Club History , intermiamicf.com, December 30, 2019, accessed February 4, 2020.
  2. https://www.mlssoccer.com/post/2017/04/27/omar-gonzalez-pachuca-defeat-tigres-win-concacaf-champions-league-title