Lionel Scaloni

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Lionel Scaloni
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Lionel Scaloni 2014
Personnel
Surname Lionel Sebastián Scaloni
birthday May 16, 1978
place of birth Rosario ,  Argentina
size 182 cm
position Full-back / midfielder
Men's
Years station Games (goals) 1
1995-1996 Newell's Old Boys 16 0(0)
1996-1998 Estudiantes 37 0(7)
1998-2006 Deportivo La Coruña 262 (15)
2006 →  West Ham United  (Loan) 13 0(0)
2006-2007 Racing Santander 30 0(1)
2007-2013 Lazio Rome 52 0(1)
2008-2009 →  RCD Mallorca  (loan) 28 0(0)
2013-2015 Atalanta Bergamo 15 0(0)
National team
Years selection Games (goals)
2003-2006 Argentina 7 0(0)
Stations as a trainer
Years station
2016-2017 Sevilla FC (assistant coach)
2017-2018 Argentina (assistant coach)
2018– Argentina (interim trainer)
1 Only league games are given.

Lionel Sebastián Scaloni (born May 16, 1978 in Rosario ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach . Scaloni also has Italian and Spanish citizenship.

Player career

Scaloni began his football career at his hometown club Newell's Old Boys , where he was used for the first time in the Argentine Primera División in the 1994/95 season . He quickly became a regular player and stayed with the Estudiantes , the league rivals from La Plata . Most of his football career, however, spent the right winger in Spain, where he played from 1997 for over eight seasons at Deportivo La Coruña . Here he also achieved his greatest successes. In 1999/2000 La Coruña became Spanish champions, then twice runner-up and twice championship third. From 2000 to 2004, the club took part in the Champions League four times in a row and only dropped out in the quarter-finals twice, and once they even reached the semi-finals. Scaloni made 41 CL appearances during this time. The following two years were not so successful, Deportivo only ended up in midfield and the Argentine had to fight for his place in the team. During the 2005/06 season he went on loan to the English Premier League club West Ham United . There he reached the English cup final.

In the national jersey, Lionel Scaloni's career was not so successful. Although he was part of his country's U20 team at the 1997 Junior World Cup in Malaysia , which also won the title, he did not play for the first time in the senior national team until 2003 and was then rarely called up. Due to his extensive international experience, he was nevertheless accepted into the Argentine squad for the 2006 World Cup in Germany.

Title, achievements and awards as a player

  • Junior World Champion: 1997 (U20)
  • Spanish champion: 2000
  • Spanish vice-champion: 2001, 2002

Coaching career

In 2017 Scaloni took over the post of assistant coach for the Argentine national team at the side of national coach Jorge Sampaoli . On August 2, 2018, he became the interim coach of the Argentine national team together with Pablo Aimar . On August 8, 2018, he won the final of the Torneo Internacional de Fútbol Sub-20 de la Alcudia (COTIF) with the U20s, the second title for Argentina in a 2-1 win against Russia. Scaloni won his first game as national coach on September 8, 2018 against Guatemala 3-0.

He won third place in the Copa America with Argentina in a 2-1 victory over defending champions Chile.

Titles, successes and awards as a trainer

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ fifa.com: Scaloni and Aimar take over as interim trainers
  2. ^ COTIF Torneo Internacional de Futbol de L'Alcúdia. Retrieved October 23, 2019 (European Spanish).
personal data
SURNAME Scaloni, Lionel
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Scaloni, Lionel Sebastián
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Argentinian soccer player and coach
DATE OF BIRTH May 16, 1978
PLACE OF BIRTH Rosario , Santa Fe , Argentina