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| Full name | Diego Sebastián Cagna | ||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1970-04-19)19 April 1970 (age 55) | ||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Buenos Aires, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.82 m (6 ft 0 in) | ||||||||||||||||
| Position | Midfielder | ||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||
| Argentinos Juniors | |||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||
| 1988–1992 | Argentinos Juniors | 100 | (12) | ||||||||||||||
| 1992–1996 | Independiente | 117 | (13) | ||||||||||||||
| 1996–1999 | Boca Juniors | 115 | (9) | ||||||||||||||
| 2000–2002 | Villarreal | 77 | (3) | ||||||||||||||
| 2002 | Celaya | 17 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| 2003–2005 | Boca Juniors | 82 | (7) | ||||||||||||||
| Total | 508 | (45) | |||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||
| 1992–1999 | Argentina | 19 | (1) | ||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2009 | Tigre | ||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Colo-Colo | ||||||||||||||||
| 2011 | Newell's Old Boys | ||||||||||||||||
| 2012–2013 | Estudiantes | ||||||||||||||||
| 2013 | Tigre | ||||||||||||||||
| 2016–2017[1] | San Martín-T | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018 | Atlético Bucaramanga | ||||||||||||||||
| 2018–2019 | Instituto ACC | ||||||||||||||||
| 2021 | Jorge Wilstermann | ||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| * Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||
Diego Sebastián Cagna (born 19 April 1970) is an Argentinefootball coach and former player who played asmidfielder.
Cagna was born inBuenos Aires. His first professional first-division match was in December 1988, withArgentinos Juniors. He transferred toIndependiente at the beginning of 1992, where he played for four years.
Cagna then went on to joinBoca Juniors from theApertura 1996 until the end of 1999 when, at 29 years of age and after finishing the Apertura 1999, he moved toLa Liga sideVillarreal CF. He played two seasons with theYellow Submarine, and after playing the Apertura 2002 withPrimera División de México clubAtlético Celaya, he returned to Boca Juniors in 2003 and retired in 2005. In total, Cagna played 255 games for Boca, scoring 21 goals.
With theArgentina national team Cagna won theConfederations Cup1992, and participated in theCopa América 1999. His only goal for the national team was on 15 April 1998 friendly match againstIsrael inJerusalem, which Argentina lost 2–1.[2]
In December 2006, he becameTigre's manager, taking the club to the first division in only one season. Tigre's first year in the major division was successful with Tigre finishing in second place in theApertura 2007 championship. This was Tigre's highest ever finish in the top division, gaining Cagna notoriety from fans and the sports press.[3]
In theApertura 2008 championship Tigre finished joint top of thePrimera División with Boca Juniors and San Lorenzo. Tigre had the best head-to-head record, San Lorenzo the best goal difference but Boca Juniors won thethree-way championship playoff on goal difference after the three teams once again finished level on points.
Cagna then guided Tigre to qualification to an international club competition for the first time in their history at the end of the 2008–09 season. Tigre appeared in the2009 Copa Sudamericana, where they were eliminated in the first round by San Lorenzo.
Having taken Tigre into the last game of two championship seasons with the possibility of winning the championship and led them to international qualification for the first time in their history, his fortunes turned in theApertura 2009 where Tigre finished bottom of the table with only 8 points from 19 games prompting his resignation on 14 December 2009 after over three years with the club. The former Chacarita coach replaces on 20 April 2010Hugo Tocalli as Head Coach byColo-Colo.
Unfortunately, Cagna's results with the twenty-nine time Chilean champions have been disappointing, losing a 7-point advantage through several games until the end of the 2010 season, finishing runners-up of that tournament (Universidad Católica became finally champions). Moreover, his international appearance in Copa Sudamericana meant another disappointment since "Los Albos" were kicked out in first round home/away leg versus Universitario de Sucre.
Even though fans' patience is running really thin from 2010 – and even more after a non-convincing start of 2011 season – Cagna is still having a place as Colo Colo's manager. Fans currently call him "Despreocupado" (unworried, carefree) because of his negligent attitude before, during and after every match. This nickname is closely linked to a very popular TV commercial from an international financial group in Chile.[4]
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
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| Argentina | 1992 | 7 | 0 |
| 1993 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1994 | 2 | 0 | |
| 1995 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1997 | 1 | 0 | |
| 1998 | 1 | 1 | |
| 1999 | 7 | 0 | |
| Total | 19 | 1 | |
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