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| Personal information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Full name | Cristian Alberto González Peret | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Date of birth | (1974-08-04)4 August 1974 (age 50) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Place of birth | Rosario, Santa Fe, Argentina | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Height | 1.73 m (5 ft 8 in) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Position(s) | Winger | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Team information | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Current team | Unión (head coach) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| Youth career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Rosario Central | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Senior career* | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| Years | Team | Apps | (Gls) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1993–1995 | Rosario Central | 51 | (7) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–1996 | Boca Juniors | 37 | (3) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1996–1999 | Zaragoza | 90 | (15) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 1999–2003 | Valencia | 92 | (8) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2003–2006 | Inter Milan | 51 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2006–2009 | Rosario Central | 76 | (10) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2009–2010 | San Lorenzo | 32 | (0) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2010–2011 | Rosario Central | 17 | (2) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Total | 446 | (45) | |||||||||||||||||||||
| International career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 1995–2005 | Argentina | 56 | (9) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| 2004 | Argentina Olympic (O.P.) | 6 | (1) | ||||||||||||||||||||
| Managerial career | |||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2020–2022 | Rosario Central | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| 2023– | Unión | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Medal record
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| *Club domestic league appearances and goals | |||||||||||||||||||||||
Cristian Alberto 'Kily' González Peret (born 4 August 1974) is an Argentinefootball manager and former professional player who played mainly as aleft winger, and is the manager ofUnión.
He started his career withRosario Central, which he would represent in three different spells, moving to Spain in 1996 where he appeared forZaragoza andValencia, amassingLa Liga totals of 182 matches and 23 goals during seven seasons and winning the national championship with the latter. He also played in two consecutive UEFA Champions League finals (1999–2000, 2000–01) and was named in theUEFA Team of the Year in 2001. He left Valencia in 2003, spending three years in Italy withInter Milan before returning to the Argentine league.
González's spell in theArgentina national team lasted for ten years, in which he was selected for the2002 World Cup and twoCopa América tournaments, for a total of 56caps, scoring 9 goals.
Born inRosario, Santa Fe, González started playing with localRosario Central, making hisArgentine Primera División debut on 18 December 1993 in a 0–2 away loss againstGimnasia.
After two years, he moved toBoca Juniors, spending the1995–96 season there, playing alongsideDiego Maradona.[1]
In 1996, González was transferred toReal Zaragoza. He appeared in his first game inLa Liga on 8 September, playing 19 minutes in a 2–1 win againstSevilla[2] and, during his three-year spell inAragon, shared teams with countrymanGustavo López who was also a winger.[3]
Subsequently, González joined fellow league clubValencia for 1,300 millionpesetas,[4] being teammate to also ArgentinesPablo Aimar andRoberto Ayala for several seasons and contributing with 31 matches and two goals in the2001–02 campaign as his team won the league title after a 31-year wait. Following the emergence of youngerVicente, he became surplus to requirements – only 13 appearances and 546 minutes of action inhis last year, which also included a run-in with managerRafael Benítez[5]– and left theChe as afree agent; additionally, he amassedUEFA Champions League combined totals of 31 matches and five goals, as they reached the final in2000 and2001, and was grantedSpanish nationality in early January 2001.[6]
In summer 2003, González followed former Valencia coachHéctor Cuper toInter Milan, and again shared teams with several compatriots.[7]
He was used mainly as asubstitute during his tenure, playing 75 official games and failing to find the net.[8]
Aged 32, González returned to his country and Rosario Central, going on to still be an important first-team member during three top flight seasons. On 4 August 2009, he joinedSan Lorenzo who was managed by former national teammateDiego Simeone; afterthe former's relegation, however, he decided to rejoin for a third spell and help in thePrimera B Nacional campaign,[9] following which he retired at 37.
In June 2020, after over a year in charge of itsreserve team, González became Rosario Central's manager on an 18-month contract.[10] On his debut on 3 November, the club won 2–1 at home toGodoy Cruz Antonio Tomba.[11]
González led Central to thequarter-finals of theCopa Sudamericana in2021, losing 5–3 on aggregate to Brazil'sRed Bull Bragantino in August.[12] The following 20 March, after aderby defeat toNewell's Old Boys, he was dismissed.[13]
AnArgentine international since 1995, González made his debut on 8 November in a 0–1 home defeat toBrazil.[14] He was selected by managerMarcelo Bielsa for his1999 Copa América squad, scoring one of his nine goals in the nation's 2–0 group stage win againstUruguay as the former went on to reach the quarter-finals only to be eliminated by eventual champions Brazil.[15] He went on to become a regular member of the starting eleven under that coach,[14] and also participated in the2002 FIFA World Cup inJapan andSouth Korea, starting againstEngland (and being replaced) and also appearing againstNigeria andSweden in an eventual group stage exit.[16]
Two years later, again under Bielsa, González was selected for the2004 Summer Olympics tournament as one of three overaged players.[17] He featured in all games and scored in the opener againstSerbia (6–0), helping theAlbicelestewin gold inAthens.
González also took part in the2004 Copa América, netting three times in the tournament: his first two came in the group stage, in Argentina's victories againstEcuador[18] and Uruguay,[19] and his last was apenalty in regulation time inthe final against Brazil, which eventually ended in ashootout loss with the player again converting his attempt.[20][21]
González was a quick, strong and versatile midfielder, who was capable of playing both as awinger and as anattacking midfielder. His main attributes were his technical ability, vision, range of passing, determination and his powerful and accurate striking ability from distance, which enabled him both to create and score goals.[14][22]
| Club | Season | League | National cup[a] | Continental | Other | Total | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Division | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | Apps | Goals | ||
| Rosario Central | 1993–94 | Primera División | 21 | 2 | – | – | – | 21 | 2 | |||
| 1994–95 | Primera División | 30 | 5 | – | – | – | 30 | 5 | ||||
| Total | 51 | 7 | – | – | – | 51 | 7 | |||||
| Boca Juniors | 1995–96 | Primera División | 36 | 3 | – | – | – | 36 | 3 | |||
| 1996–97 | Primera División | 1 | 0 | – | – | – | 1 | 0 | ||||
| Total | 37 | 3 | – | – | – | 37 | 3 | |||||
| Zaragoza | 1996–97 | La Liga | 30 | 3 | 4 | 1 | – | – | 34 | 4 | ||
| 1997–98 | La Liga | 33 | 6 | 7 | 1 | – | – | 40 | 7 | |||
| 1998–99 | La Liga | 29 | 6 | 1 | 0 | – | – | 30 | 6 | |||
| Total | 92 | 15 | 12 | 2 | – | – | 104 | 17 | ||||
| Valencia | 1999–2000 | La Liga | 31 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 16[b] | 3 | 1[c] | 0 | 49 | 5 |
| 2000–01 | La Liga | 22 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 14[b] | 2 | – | 36 | 5 | ||
| 2001–02 | La Liga | 26 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 6[d] | 0 | – | 32 | 3 | ||
| 2002–03 | La Liga | 13 | 0 | 1 | 0 | 6[b] | 1 | 0 | 0 | 20 | 1 | |
| Total | 92 | 8 | 2 | 0 | 42 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 137 | 14 | ||
| Inter Milan | 2003–04 | Serie A | 21 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 7 | 0 | – | 31 | 0 | |
| 2004–05 | Serie A | 14 | 0 | 5 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | – | 21 | 0 | ||
| 2005–06 | Serie A | 16 | 0 | 4 | 0 | 2[b] | 0 | 0 | 0 | 22 | 0 | |
| Total | 51 | 0 | 13 | 0 | 11 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 | 0 | ||
| Rosario Central | 2006–07 | Primera División | 31 | 4 | – | – | – | 31 | 4 | |||
| 2007–08 | Primera División | 24 | 3 | – | – | – | 24 | 3 | ||||
| 2008–09 | Primera División | 24 | 3 | – | – | 2[e] | 0 | 26 | 3 | |||
| Total | 79 | 10 | – | – | 2 | 0 | 81 | 10 | ||||
| San Lorenzo | 2009–10 | Primera División | 32 | 0 | – | 5[f] | 1 | – | 37 | 1 | ||
| Rosario Central | 2010–11 | Primera B Nacional | 15 | 2 | – | – | – | 15 | 2 | |||
| Career total | 447 | 45 | 27 | 2 | 58 | 7 | 3 | 0 | 535 | 54 | ||
| National team | Year | Apps | Goals |
|---|---|---|---|
| Argentina | 1995 | 1 | 0 |
| 1996 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1997 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1998 | 0 | 0 | |
| 1999 | 10 | 2 | |
| 2000 | 10 | 0 | |
| 2001 | 7 | 2 | |
| 2002 | 7 | 0 | |
| 2003 | 5 | 1 | |
| 2004 | 12 | 4 | |
| 2005 | 4 | 0 | |
| Total | 56 | 9 | |
| No. | Date | Venue | Opponent | Score | Result | Competition |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 July 1999 | Estadio Feliciano Cáceres,Luque, Paraguay |  Uruguay | 1–0 | 2–0 | 1999 Copa América |
| 2 | 17 November 1999 | Estadio La Cartuja,Seville, Spain |  Spain | 1–0 | 2–0 | Friendly |
| 3 | 28 February 2001 | Stadio Olimpico,Rome, Italy |  Italy | 1–1 | 2–1 | Friendly |
| 4 | 3 June 2001 | El Monumental,Buenos Aires, Argentina |  Colombia | 1–0 | 3–0 | 2002 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 5 | 6 September 2003 | El Monumental, Buenos Aires, Argentina |  Chile | 1–0 | 2–2 | 2006 FIFA World Cup qualification |
| 6 | 28 April 2004 | Mohammed V Stadium,Casablanca, Morocco |  Morocco | 1–0 | 1–0 | Friendly |
| 7 | 7 July 2004 | Estadio Elías Aguirre,Chiclayo, Peru |  Ecuador | 1–0 | 6–1 | 2004 Copa America |
| 8 | 13 July 2004 | Estadio Miguel Grau (Piura),Piura, Peru | Uruguay | 1–1 | 4–2 | 2004 Copa America |
| 9 | 25 July 2004 | Estadio Nacional del Perú,Lima, Peru |  Brazil | 1–0 | 2–2 (2–4 p.) | 2004 Copa America |
As of 9 April 2025
| Team | Nat | From | To | Record | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| G | W | D | L | GF | GA | GD | Win % | ||||
| Rosario Central |  | 1 July 2020 | 21 March 2022 | 68 | 25 | 14 | 29 | 95 | 98 | −3 | 036.76 |
| Unión | 26 June 2023 | present | 77 | 25 | 25 | 27 | 68 | 72 | −4 | 032.47 | |
| Total | 145 | 50 | 39 | 56 | 163 | 170 | −7 | 034.48 | |||
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