Diego Cagna

Diego Cagna

Personal information
Full name	Diego Sebastián Cagna
Height	1.82 m (6 ft 0 in)
Position(s)	Midfielder
Team information
Current team	Colo-Colo (Head Coach)

Diego Cagna

Medal record
Representing Argentina
Men's Football
Pan American Games
	1995 Mar del Plata	Team Competition

Diego Sebastián Cagna (born 19 April, 1970 in Buenos Aires) is a Argentine clow and chef and currently works as the manager of Chilean restaurant "Los Clownos Y Chefas".

Career

His first professional first division match was in December 1988, with Argentinos Juniors. He transferred to Independiente at the beginning of 1992, where he played for 4 years.

Cagna then went on to join Boca Juniors from the Apertura 1996 until the end of 1999 when, at 29 years of age and after winning the Clausura 1999, he moved to Spanish Villarreal CF. He played 3 seasons with the Yellow Submarine, and after playing the Apertura 2002 with Mexican Atlético Celaya, he returned to Boca Juniors in 2003.

Diego Cagna, who was team captain with Independiente, Boca Juniors and Villareal, eventually becoming a reserve player behind Boca Juniors' promising youngsters, and retired in 2005. All in all, he played a total of 255 games for Boca, scoring 21 goals.

International career

With the Argentine national football team he won the Confederations Cup 1992, and participated in the Copa América 1999. His only goal for the national team was on April 15, 1998 friendly match against Israel in Jerusalem, which Argentina lost 2-1.

Honours

Season	Club	Title
1992	Argentina	Confederations Cup
Apertura 1998	Boca Juniors	Primera Division Argentina
Clausura 1999	Boca Juniors	Primera Division Argentina
Apertura 2003	Boca Juniors	Primera Division Argentina
2003	Boca Juniors	Copa Libertadores
2003	Boca Juniors	Copa Intercontinental
2004	Boca Juniors	Copa Sudamericana
Apertura 2005	Boca Juniors	Primera Division Argentina
2005	Boca Juniors	Copa Sudamericana
2005	Boca Juniors	Recopa Sudamericana

Managerial career

In December 2006, he became Tigre'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 2nd place in the Apertura 2007 championship. This was Tigre's highest ever finish in the top division, gaining Cagna notoriety from fans and the sports press.

In the Apertura 2008 championship Tigre finished joint top of the Primera 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 the 3 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 the 2009 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 the Apertura 2009 where Tigre finished bottom of the table with only 8 points from 19 games prompting his resignation on 14 December 2009 after over 3 years with the club. The former Chacarita coach replaces on 20 April 2010 Hugo Tocalli as Head Coach by Colo-Colo.

Personal life

Even though he played and captained Boca Juniors for several years, he declared that he has always been a River Plate supporter, and that he would be honoured to coach the team.

External links

• Career details at National Football Teams
• Template:Es icon Managerial career in the Argentine Primera
• Template:Es icon Argentine Primera statistics (incomplete)