Claudio Borghi
Claudio Daniel Borghi Bidos ( born September 28, 1964 in Castelar, Buenos Aires Province ) is a former Argentine football player and current coach, the 1986 Football World Cup was as a player.
Career
Club career
Claudio Borghi played during his career for fifteen different clubs. At most successful was his involvement in the Argentine tradition club Argentinos Juniors, where he started in 1981, only a short time after the departure of Diego Maradona to Boca Juniors his career in the professional sector. In the Juniors he played until 1987 and made a total of 39 league games. The biggest success in Jersey of the Argentinos Juniors succeeded Borghi 1985, when they won the first and to date only time in the club's Copa Libertadores. In the finals they defeated the Colombian representative América de Cali in a penalty shootout the playoff after it had been tied after the first two finals and also 120 minutes of playoff brought forth no winner. Claudio Borghi converted his penalty kick in the penalty shootout to intermediate 3:3 and even so, he was in all the three final matches on the court. Again he went to penalties with the Juniors a little later in the final of the World Cup against Juventus, but here they lost the Italian top club with 2:4 after penalty kicks. Borghi was in this case no penalty taker.
After two titles in the Argentine Primera División and the Libertadores victory and the subsequent winning the Copa Interamericana left Claudio Borghi Argentinos Juniors in 1987 and moved to Europe to AC Milan, where he, however, not a single League game played and was immediately awarded to FC Como and was sold after the end of the loan at Neuchâtel Xamax. Again, the midfielder could not prevail and moved back to Argentina in 1988 to River Plate to Buenos Aires. Now began for Claudio Borghi a time in which he stood within eleven years in eleven different clubs under contract. Among other things, he played for Chile's showpiece club Colo -Colo, Flamengo of Brazil's metropolis of Rio de Janeiro or Argentina 's most successful club in the Copa Libertadores, Independiente Avellaneda. Great success, apart from the Cup victory with Flamengo in 1990 and winning the Copa Interamericana and the Recopa Sudamericana with Colo -Colo 1992, however, he did not reach. From 1998 to 1999 Claudio Borghi had his last stop, as he kicked an active football player for the Chilean first division side Santiago Wanderers, before he ended his career in 1999 at the age of 35 years.
National
In the years 1985 and 1986 Claudio Borghi came to nine internationals in the Argentine national soccer team. From coach Carlos Bilardo, he was appointed to the South American squad for the FIFA World Cup 1986 in Mexico. In the World Championships, he came in two group matches against Italy (1-1) and Bulgaria ( 2-0) to use before he was no longer considered by Bilardo. These two preliminary round games he did not complete the full season, he was replaced by Héctor Enrique or against Julio Olarticoechea. His team, however, reached the final, where they won at the Azteca stadium in Mexico City against Germany 3-2 and thus won the second world title for Argentina in the World Cup.
Coaching career
After the end of his active career as a football player Claudio Borghi was coach. His first coaching job he held in Chile in 2004, Audax Italiano. After a year he was in Chile's Primera División of CSD Colo -Colo, where he once had played as a player, committed. With the giants of Chile Borghi won four times in a row, the Chilean soccer championship and was elected to that time again to Chile's coach of the year. By 2008, Borghi was Colo -Colo, before he went to CA Independiente in Argentina and the club coached briefly. After only four months in office, he was fired after a 0-1 defeat against Huracán however. 2009 to 2010 he was responsible for the sporting success at the Argentinos Juniors, which he led in 2010 to the first championship of the Clausura for twenty-five years. In the first year after the championship is finished in last place in the Primera División, though had to because of the descent control, decide the results of the last years after the above relegation, not in the Primera B, but Borghi left the Juniors after the Apertura 2010. Then he was briefly coach of Boca Juniors, however, there has been dismissed after a 0-1 defeat in superclásico against River Plate. On 24 February 2011 Claudio Borghi signed a contract with the Chilean national soccer team in 2014 and entered the successor of Marcelo Bielsa. His first major tournament with Chile was the Copa America 2011 in his native Argentina, where the off surprisingly came in the quarter- final against Venezuela. After a 1-3 defeat in a friendly against Serbia, the fifth consecutive defeat, Borghi was still released on November 14, 2012 on the Square in St. Gallen.