 Borghi in 1985, when he raised as a youth star from Argentinos Juniors | |||||||||||||||||
| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Claudio Daniel Borghi Bidos | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1964-09-28)28 September 1964 (age 61) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Castelar,Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.81 m (5 ft 11 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Attacking midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1981–1987 | Argentinos Juniors | 39 | (8) | ||||||||||||||
| 1987–1988 | Milan | 0 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1987 | →Como (loan) | 7 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1988 | Neuchâtel Xamax | ? | (?) | ||||||||||||||
| 1988–1989 | River Plate | 21 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1989 | Flamengo | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1990 | Independiente | 12 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1990–1991 | Unión de Santa Fe | 7 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1991 | Huracán | 22 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992 | Colo-Colo | 18 | (5) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1993 | Platense | 12 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1994 | Correcaminos UAT | 10 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| 1995 | O'Higgins | 22 | (4) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996 | Audax Italiano | 20 | (6) | ||||||||||||||
| 1998 | Santiago Wanderers | 6 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 238 | (34) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1985–1986 | Argentina | 9 | (0) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2002–2003 | Audax Italiano | ||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2008 | Colo-Colo | ||||||||||||||||
| 2008 | Independiente | ||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | Argentinos Juniors | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010 | Boca Juniors | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011–2012 | Chile | ||||||||||||||||
| 2014 | Argentinos Juniors | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016 | LDU Quito | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Claudio Daniel Borghi Bidos (Spanish pronunciation:[ˈklawðjoˈβoɾɣi]; born 28 September 1964), nicknamedBichi, is anArgentine naturalizedChilean[1]football manager and former player who played as anattacking midfielder.
He has been active as a player and coach mostly in Argentina and Chile, and also played in Italy, Switzerland, Brazil and Mexico; and coached in Ecuador.
Borghi started his career as anattacking midfielder forArgentinos Juniors in the early 1980s. He was considered a bright young star for Argentina and tipped by many to matchDiego Maradona's level.
Borghi's exceptional performance in the1985 Intercontinental Cup final (Argentinos Juniors lost toJuventus on penalties) drew the attention ofAC Milan presidentSilvio Berlusconi, and Borghi was signed for the club in 1987. Borghi was drafted in alongside DutchmenMarco van Basten andRuud Gullit, but, since teams were allowed only two foreign players, he was loaned out toComo for the1987–88 season. The next year the maximum number of foreign players was increased to three, but Milan coachArrigo Sacchi – who had won respect by securing theScudetto a few months earlier – asked his team to sign another Dutch player,Frank Rijkaard, instead of bringing Borghi back, as Berlusconi wished. Afterwards Borghi left Italy and tried his luck in Switzerland withNeuchâtel Xamax, before returning to South America where he played forRiver Plate,Flamengo andIndependiente. Eventually he wound up in Chile, winning theRecopa Sudamericana andCopa Interamericana withColo-Colo in 1992, and concluded his playing career withSantiago Wanderers in 1999.
Borghi was called up to theArgentina national team for the 1986FIFA World Cup in Mexico, where he won the World Cup with Argentina and played alongside Diego Maradona at his peak.
After retiring as a player, Borghi started a career as amanager in Chile, between 2004 and 2005 he worked as the coach ofAudax Italiano.
In 2006 Borghi was appointed as the coach ofColo-Colo. He led the team to four consecutiveleague championships between 2006 and 2007. He also led the club to the final of the2006 Copa Sudamericana and received theSouth American Coach of the Year award in 2006.
In June 2008, Borghi returned to Argentina to become the 19th coach ofIndependiente in the last 10 years.[2] Borghi was unable to accomplish a winning campaign and resigned from the position on 5 October 2008 following, a 1–0 loss toHuracán. While at Independiente, Borghi managed the team for 17 matches, winning 4, drawing 9, and losing 4.[3]
In June 2009, he returned toArgentinos Juniors as their new manager following their dismal 2009 Clausura campaign, which had seen the club finish 20th (last) in the table, with only 2 wins from their 19 games.
After leading the club to a 6th-place finish in the 2009 Apertura championship, Borghi and the Argentinos Juniors directors set the target of surpassing the 61 points from the2007–08 season to avoid dropping further down therelegation table.
In the2010 Clausura championship, Argentinos recorded a 6–3 win againstLanús in their second fixture of the campaign, but after five games this was their only win, with two draws and two defeats. Subsequently, Argentinos won their 6th fixture againstEstudiantes de La Plata, which was the start of a 14-game unbeaten streak that saw Argentinos finish 1 point ahead of Estudiantes at the end of the season. The most significant result in this 14-game run was in their penultimate fixture against title challengers Independiente, which saw Argentinos come back from 1–3 down to win 4–3, which featured two goals in the final minutes of the game to seal the win and leave Argentinos top of the table with one game to play. They sealed their first domestic championship in 25 years with a 1–2 away win against Huracán in theEstadio Tomás Adolfo Ducó.
This championship was Borghi's fifth title with the club, considering the four he had won as a player in the mid-1980s. Borghi achieved a great turnaround in the fortunes of the team that had finished in last place only one year previously and the successful Clausura championship campaign secured qualification for the2010 Copa Sudamericana and the2011 Copa Libertadores. However, he decided to leave Argentinos at the end of the tournament.
On 21 May 2010Boca Juniors signed Borghi as their new head coach.[4] His period in Boca was short however, as he resigned on 17 November, after obtaining 17 points over 42 possible in his 14 official games.[5] His departure was subsequent to a 0–1 defeat toRiver Plate in the2010 Apertura'sSuperclásico, that left Boca in the 15th league table position.
On 24 February 2011, he was presented by theChilean Football Federation as the new coach, in replacement ofMarcelo Bielsa, under a contract of US$1.5 Million per year until the end of the2014 FIFA World Cup playoffs, to be extended automatically in case of qualification.
On 14 November 2012, Borghi was sacked after poor performances, including five straight losses, three in theWorld Cup qualifiers, and two in international friendlies.
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
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| G | W | D | L | Win % | GF | GA | +/- | ||||
| Chile |  | 24 February 2011 | 14 November 2012 | 27 | 11 | 5 | 11 | 46.9 | 40 | 40 | 0 |
His son, Filippo Borghi Pagnuco, was with theUnión Española youth ranks as astriker, but he switched to therugby union when he was a student of Redland School, representing Chile at international tournaments.[6]
Borghi spent over six years withTNT Sports Chile (beforeCanal del Fútbol) as afootball commentator between 2019 and 2025.[7][8] In March 2025, he switched toESPN Chile.[9]
In March 2025, Borghi assumed as an adviser forArgentinos Juniors.[10]
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