| Personal information | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Full name | Hugo Benjamín Ibarra | ||
| Date of birth | (1974-04-01)1 April 1974 (age 51) | ||
| Place of birth | El Colorado,Formosa, Argentina | ||
| Height | 1.71 m (5 ft 7 in) | ||
| Position | Right back | ||
| Youth career | |||
| Colón | |||
| Senior career* | |||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) |
| 1995–1998 | Colón | 140 | (8) |
| 1998–2001 | Boca Juniors | 85 | (2) |
| 2001–2005 | FC Porto | 20 | (0) |
| 2002–2003 | →Boca Juniors (loan) | 25 | (4) |
| 2003–2004 | →Monaco (loan) | 25 | (0) |
| 2004–2005 | →Espanyol (loan) | 31 | (1) |
| 2005–2010 | Boca Juniors | 124 | (3) |
| Total | 450 | (18) | |
| International career | |||
| 1998–2007 | Argentina | 11 | (0) |
| Managerial career | |||
| 2011–2014 | Boca Juniors (youth) | ||
| 2015–2021 | Boca Juniors II (assistant) | ||
| 2021–2022 | Boca Juniors II | ||
| 2022–2023 | Boca Juniors | ||
| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||
Hugo Benjamín "Negro" Ibarra (born 1 April 1974), is an Argentinefootballmanager and former player who played as aright back. He last managedBoca Juniors.
With 324 matches played, 10 goals scored and 15 titles won with Boca Juniors,[1] Ibarra is considered the best right back in the history of the club.[2][1][3]
Born inPirané Department, northernprovince ofFormosa, Ibarra went toSanta Fe Province to start playing inColón. It was asecond division team when he started playing professionally in 1993, but two years later the team got promoted to first division. His performance calledBoca Juniors' attention, and he was transferred to the club he would late refer to as "my home".
After three successful seasons in Boca, Ibarra moved toEurope. Because he did not have a European passport, Ibarra was loaned back to Boca Juniors after playing his first season in PortugueseFC Porto. Porto loaned him to FrenchMonaco FC a year later, and then to SpanishRCD Espanyol.
Ibarra played six matches forArgentina national football team, includingCopa América 1999. While in Monaco, the team reachedUEFA Champions League finals, beating in its way such teams asReal Madrid andChelsea, to later lose3–0 to his former club Porto, club that owned him at that moment.
In July 2005, after some difficult negotiations due to the economic crisis in Argentina, Hugo Ibarra went back to Boca Juniors, his last team. On 18 April 2007, he got back toArgentina national football team, as Argentina's captain, to play a friendly match againstChile.
In September 2010, he announced his retirement from professional football.
At the end of 2011, Ibarra was hired in a youth coordinator role atBoca Juniors' youth academy.[4] From the 2015 season, Ibarra became assistant coach of Boca's reserve team under managerRolando Schiavi.[5]
In 2021, he began in a new role where he would be the nexus between amateur football and the Football Council in Boca Juniors.[6] On 17 August 2021, Boca's reserve team manager,Sebastián Battaglia, was appointed first-team manager on an interim basis, while Ibarra andMauricio Serna took charge of the reserve team, also on an interim basis.[7]
Ibarra was named interim manager of Boca in July 2022, after Battaglia was sacked.[8] On 29 November, he was confirmed as manager for the upcoming season.[9]On 28 March 2023, he was sacked by the club.
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
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| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| Boca Juniors II |  | 17 August 2021 | 7 July 2022 | 40 | 21 | 12 | 7 | 84 | 46 | +38 | 052.50 |
| Boca Juniors | 8 July 2022 | 28 March 2023 | 36 | 20 | 7 | 9 | 44 | 33 | +11 | 055.56 | |
| Total | 76 | 41 | 19 | 16 | 128 | 79 | +49 | 053.95 | |||
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