Daniel Montenegro
Daniel Gastón Montenegro ( born December 28, 1979 in Buenos Aires ) is an Argentine footballer who has an Italian passport. Currently, the main active as an attacking midfielder Montenegro plays for Club America in the Mexican Primera División, the top division of the country.
In his native Montenegro is also known by his nickname Rolfi. His older brother Ariel is also an active professional football players.
- 2.1 Honours
- 2.2 National team success
Career
Career start in the home
Montenegro began his active career as a professional football player in 1997 in his native Argentina in the CA Huracán. There he was on 7 April 1997 in a 3-1 victory over the CA Velez Sarsfield his professional debut and completed up to the descent in the Primera B Nacional, the second- highest division of the country, 79 league games, scoring 19 goals. In 1999 he then moved to the league rivals CA Independiente, for whom he met seven times in 19 games. In Argentina, celebrated as a great offensive talent, greater international clubs were always attentive to the young, strong midfielder.
The time at Olympique Marseille
In the same year, when he had moved to Independiente, Montenegro transferred one more time. This time it went to France for Olympique Marseille in the Ligue 1 early on November 7, 1999 shortly after his contract signing, he came in a 1-1 home draw against AS Monaco to its only two -minute team debut. Three days later he played at times but a 1-1 draw against FC Nantes through the entire match times. On 18 December 1999 his fifth deployment in dress from Olympique, he scored in the 22 minutes his first competitive goal for the single and the same team. In the same match Montenegro has been replaced in the 54th minute for Kaba Diawara. In the 2000 /01 season was followed by another 24 -minute short-term use.
3 stations as Players out on loan
After six league games and scored after he was awarded División by the French to Real Zaragoza in the Spanish Primera. In Saragossa, he was in 2000/ 01 at first Cup Winners' Cup ( 3-1 final win over Celta Vigo) and arrived at 28 Championship inserts on a balance of two gates. Despite a 17 out of 20 league places the team was qualified at the end of the season due to the Cup victory for the first round of the UEFA Cup in 2001/ 02, which we won confidently without Montenegrin participation with a total score of 5-1 on the Danish Silkeborg IF.
Prior to Montenegro in 2001 had been transferred on loan to Osasuna. When club based in Pamplona, he completed for the senior team in the Primera División ten league games, before he was given a second time. This time it went back to his home to his former club CA Huracán, in which he met eleven times in 18 games to score. This Rolfi was one of the main people responsible for fourth place in the final table of the Torneo Clausura 2002, after the team in the Torneo Apertura reached only the 19th and penultimate place in the league.
Together with Ernesto Farías and Josemir Lujambio he shared at the end of the season in third place in the scoresheet.
Longer return to Argentina
In 2002, Montenegro signed a one -year contract with the club for which he was briefly active in the year 1999, the CA Independiente. He won with the team next Torneo Apertura 2002 Lucho González the three points clear at the tracker CA Boca Juniors. But already in 2003, a further change Rolfis should be noticeable. So it was that he moved yet completed after 37 league games in the same year, and seven hits for CA River Plate, with which he originally had in the Torneo Apertura only reached the eighth of 20 seats.
In the Torneo Clausura, however, increased the performance of the whole team, but the team with four points could celebrate the championship title at the end of the season in front of the Boca Juniors. After five goals in 29 Championship inserts Montenegro transferred a long time in the year 2004.
Stopover in Russia and re- homecoming
This time his journey went to Russia to Saturn Ramenskoje in the Premjer League. In the team itself Rolfi but could not establish good and so left after 19 league games and scored after the club in 2005 towards home.
Once there, he signed a contract with River Plate, where he was active for two years previously. With the team he kept during the Torneo Apertura and Torneo Clausura mostly in the upper table quarter, and had to end never really had a chance at the title. After only one year stay, he left the club from Núñez, a district of the capital, Buenos Aires, again, a bit later, sign a contract promising the CA Independiente, for which he had already completed a variety of games in the past.
In the Torneo Apertura 2006 nor in the upper table quarter, the team in the Torneo Clausura could not build on the achievements of the previous season in 2007 and it was only tables - eleventh. Almost conversely, it ran in the Torneo Apertura 2007 and the Torneo Clausura 2008, with Rolfi with the team previously reached the ninth position and a place in the middle of the table and then almost slid into the upper table quarter with the sixth place.
However, in terms of sport, the Torneo Apertura 2008 was bad, and the subsequent Torneo Clausura 2009. The team reached 2008, only 18 of 20 seats and could then 2009 will not solve from the bottom of the table. A 16th place was there at the end of the season to the occasion.
These services were incidentally reason for Montenegro's resignation after more than 104 matches played for the team in which he scored 41 goals.
Restart in Mexico
In July 2009, Montenegro signed a contract in Mexico at Club América, which División season on in the top division of the country, the Primera, has. So far, Montenegro graduated ten league games for the Mexican club, scoring three goals.
Internationally
Montenegro already gained international experience with the U-20 national team of his native country Argentina. With the team he won the Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20 ( to German: U-20 South American Championship ) in 1999 on home soil after a final victory over the Uruguayaische junior selection.
In addition, he represented previously in the same year his native country at the Junior World Cup, where he came up with the team to the knockout stages of the competition, but there with 1:4 retired on April 15 against Mexico. Previously, it was already located a 1-0 lead.
His A-National Team debut in Montenegro on 18 April 2007 in a match against Chile. The following year he was appointed late for the friendly against Scotland in the national team. In the game came Rolfi then under coach Diego Maradona used. To date, he came in seven A-team games for use, but remained far without scoring.
Achievements
Honours
- Copa del Rey: 2001 ( with Real Zaragoza )
- The Argentine Apertura Primera División: 2002 ( with CA Independiente )
- The Argentine Clausura Primera División: 2004 ( with CA River Plate)
National successes
- Campeonato Sudamericano Sub-20: 1999